Us and Them And after all we’re only ordinary men The wanna-be congressman appeared with his neat hair and pressed suit, a competent yet compassionate expression on his face. ”The first thing I am going to do when I get to congress is to work to repeal Obamacare,” he said, expression growing subtly angry. ”I [...]
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“I want you to get me a new doctor,” she told me, a bit of disgust coming out in the sharp tone in her voice. “What happened?” I asked. “He asked me if I was nauseated, and I told him no, I was just vomiting. Then he asked if I was feeling pain in my [...]
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Source “Your system is perfectly designed to yield the outcome you are presently getting.” - Not sure who said it, but dang, were they smart. A patient was recently recounting some of her bad experiences with her health care. I shot back with some of my frustrations with this system that seems hell-bent on making [...]
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When my wife told me about her encounter with the plumber, all I could think was: “What a jerk!” Then I was hit with an eerie sense of familiarity. OK, it wasn’t exactly eerie, but there was some creepy music in the background. Source We had a shower fixed about a year ago, costing us [...]
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The following post was one of my most read and commented-on from my old blog. I wrote it in June of 2008 after seeing a patient who was utterly ashamed of his obesity. I was so struck by his self-loathing that I wrote the post within a few hours of seeing him. My most recent [...]
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I guess I am no longer “old school.” In medical school I was repeatedly told of the importance the face-to-face encounter with patients, and how we avoid it at our peril. The physical exam, I was told, is neglected by the younger physicians in lieu of scans and studies. This, I was told, was a [...]
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One of the main things driving me back to blogging is madness. While I can’t be sure that I am not overcome by madness, it is not my own of madness I am referring to. Well, no, I am mad, but not mad in the way that I hear Elvis whispering in my ear or [...]
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