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Bravo Happy Hospitalist - The Doctor s Doctor: How To Be An Internist In Five MinutesHappy does a great job of explaining the complexity involved ...
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A professor at Beloit College started a list of cultural differences between teachers and students. This year s list - Mindset list for the clas...
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On sit down rounds yesterday morning, the team told me about a gentleman with severe achalasia. Because of the achalasia he had a G-tube in place ...
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Pain, a Limp and Winkle Picker s Disease Doctors who treat themselves may have fools for patients, but they look like geniuses compared with a rep...
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A reader writes:While I agree that physicians time needs to be valued, I think you are missing the point with patient self-education. There has b...
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In DB's Medical Rants - Posted 2 weeks ago
Taking Time for EmpathyAfter examining her father, I stepped out of the room to join the other surgeons viewing his CAT scans. As we crowded around ...
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What would Hippocrates Do?Hippocrates was a holistic practitioner intent on treating the complete person, whereas today we tend to specialize in exq...
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Study: Doctors show little empathyPhysicians might be superb at diagnosing and treating diseases, but they could use a lesson or two about how to ca...
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Woody writes:1. Do not use macrolides (erythromycin or azithromycin) as empiric therapy for pharyngitis. Stick with penicillin or cephalosporins. Ma...
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The Tyranny of Diagnosis The concept of disease, Professor Rosenberg writes, has historically focused on the individual a single person s exper...
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