A recent news story in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reminds me that lots of things in our lives are changing these…
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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…
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There are lots of things we get right about medical training, but one thing that I’ve always found to be lacking is…
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How telehealth can bring back the intimacy of house calls
by Robert Bernstein MD MPH March 26, 2018Like many physicians, I entered medicine with a desire to care for patients in an engaged and collaborative fashion, not shuttle them…
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I’m a default crier. I happy-cry, stress-cry, romantic-comedy-cry, regular-comedy-cry and, apparently, I even doctor-in-training-cry. Crying is a tough response, especially for someone…
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I never wanted to be a drug pusher. A career in medicine was the opposite — healing in place of harming. However,…
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How squeaky brakes reminded this doctor of the joys of primary care
by Alexander Rakowsky MD March 23, 2018Our local media, in an effort to raise awareness and increase vaccination rates, devoted a lot of time to the unusually harsh…
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When thinking about the United States military, we conjure up images of Rambo and GI Jane, or Maverick and Iceman from Top…