When you go to your physician’s office, or the laboratory for blood work or radiology for X-ray’s, do you feel like you’re…
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Caring for trans patients: Treat others as I would want to be treated
by Anika Godhwani MD April 2, 2018“I want you to be my doctor. You don’t judge me,” Mr. L said. “I left my last doctor because of the…
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A T-shirt advertised online reads, “Keep calm and let the patient care coordinator handle it.” The shirt must be popular, or maybe…
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Following a recent article about 3 things we need to be teaching more to our students, I received some good and thoughtful…
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Opioids: The pendulum has swung too far in the wrong direction
by Lisa Kehrberg MD March 31, 2018I’m a 43-year-old physician who retired due to illness at the age of 39. I have a rare genetic disease called acute…
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Identifying signs of burnout in yourself, or someone else, is the first step to tackling a solution — as with anything, awareness…
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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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Our health care system in the United States is notorious for providing a lot of unnecessary medical care — something we’ve written about extensively. Doctors may…