Enlarge this image DNA isolated from a small sample of saliva or blood can yield information, fairly inexpensively, about a person’s relative…
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Undoing what we’ve done: Why deprescribing is so difficult
by Philip A. Masters MD May 8, 2018I recently saw a 74-year-old patient to establish ongoing care. In reviewing her medical history, she presented me with the list of…
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It all started out with Malaysian methimazole, and didn’t end until two highly trained medical professionals sat on opposite ends of a…
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Doctors sometimes lie to their patients. Is it ever OK?
by Nana Matoba MD and Angira Patel MD May 7, 2018Doctors shouldn’t lie to their patients, even now when the parsing of words and the telling of white lies is common at the highest…
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Picture an alternate universe where you as a physician look forward to your lunch break so that you can refuel and engage…
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Enlarge this image Janice Chang for NPR Janice Chang for NPR At an outpatient lab in Tifton, Ga., where Karen Williams gets…
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It was not so much the words as the overall tone of the interaction. The doctor-patient relationship had been generally affable. There…
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A doctor is working down their long list of patients, powering through the day, striving to use their skills to get them…