A Country Doctor MD

I guess I should take it as a compliment when patients come to see me after visiting a specialist and ask me…

“Admission diagnosis: causa socialis” In my training in Sweden, it was not unusual to admit patients to the hospital for social reasons:…

Health care is on a different trajectory from most other businesses today. It’s a little hard to understand why. In business, mass…

Many patients who end up in Suboxone treatment have chronic pain. They were originally prescribed other opiates and ended up addicted to…

Back when cholesterol target numbers ruled unopposed (before 2013), we all checked fasting lipids every three months. Before 2012, we also checked…

I don’t know how many times a patient has told me, “I was in therapy once, and it didn’t help.” My response…

I learned a new word recently: transdiagnostic, which refers to something that is applicable across a spectrum of conditions. It seems that…

Today I had a followup appointment with a young adult male with severe intellectual disabilities. He is barely verbal. Several weeks ago…