For many years, I’ve held a brief huddle with my team every morning to make sure we are ready for the day:…
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Benefit vs. social responsibility: a profound ethical dilemma in medicine today
by A Country Doctor MD April 22, 2018Brilinta, at $6.50 per pill, twice a day, reduces cardiovascular events more than generic Plavix, which costs 50 cents per pill, once…
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I can’t help myself from telling patients how things really work in health care. But I feel they have a right to…
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This primary care physician does all his work through conversation
by A Country Doctor MD March 30, 2018One of the ways a doctor can document the value of an office visit is by keeping track of the number of…
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“Any recent antibiotics? Steroids?” I asked my last patient of the day, a healthy looking young woman with what she described as…
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How can we be patient centered in the age of technology?
by A Country Doctor MD January 15, 2018Four and a half years ago I read an editorial in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, that etched a…
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“I made myself a hypodermic injection of a triple dose of morphia and sank down on the couch in my consulting room…
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It’s just after six o’clock on a Sunday morning in December. The barn animals have fresh hay and warm water. My wife…
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