In 2006, the Mayo Clinic asked 192 patients an important question: What makes an ideal physician? From their responses, several characteristics emerged.…
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Practicing medicine at the frontlines is hard. It’s damn hard. Every minute you need to be alert, ready to respond to a…
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America has seen medical marijuana before: This is what we learned (and forgot)
by Erik Messamore MD PhD March 16, 2019Very few things in the universe are 100 percent good or 100 percent bad. Cannabis is perfectly ordinary in having a mixture of good…
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“Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name.” So go the famous lyrics from the theme song for “Cheers,” the…
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I often wonder what it was like before patient-centered care became a mainstream catchphrase. Was there a poor relationship between the patient…
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How Tom Brady and Lebron James can change your patients’ health
by Abdel Albakri March 13, 2019As medical professionals, one of the most challenging things to do is to motivate a patient to make changes in their lives.…
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Physicians can choose not to be powerless against opioid addiction
by Joseph Panerio-Langer MD March 13, 2019I didn’t become a primary care doctor to treat opioid addiction. I wasn’t trained for it. To be honest, it scared me.…
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Apocryphal story from residency: On morning rounds in the critical care unit, the post-call resident starts to present a complicated patient admitted…