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I should be in Washington, DC today. I was asked to co-chair a task force for the National Governor’s Association regarding privacy in sharing medical records. It was a great honor to be asked, and I greatly enjoyed my first two months’ involvement. It seemed that the perspective of a practicing physician was not something [...]
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This material, written by me, is free to re-post and share under the Creative Commons agreement. In other words, use it all you want; just give me credit.ed.: If you hadn’t noticed, this is a story based on caption suggestions from the previous post. George just stood there, not knowing how to act. Ommmmmmm…… What is this? Where am I? It isn’t a party. It isn’t a disco. Yet there he was standing in a line leading up to something? Why was [...]
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This material, written by me, is free to re-post and share under the Creative Commons agreement. In other words, use it all you want; just give me credit.It has been nearly two weeks since I was tagged by Vijay at Scanman’s notes. I have not been ignoring Vijay; life is just full of…stuff. Here goes. Reason 1: I have come off of my medication Generally when I am well-medicated, I tend to sit around smiling at people, nodding my head until they [...]
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This material, written by me, is free to re-post and share under the Creative Commons agreement. In other words, use it all you want; just give me credit.Primary care is dying. If and when it does, will anyone notice? In a paper entitled: "The Impending Collapse of Primary Care Medicine and Its Implications for the State of the Nation’s Health Care: A Report from the American College of Physicians." the following observations are made: Too Few Physicians Are Going into [...]
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This material, written by me, is free to re-post and share under the Creative Commons agreement. In other words, use it all you want; just give me credit.Please supply caption for this picture. You may enter more than once. What will I do with the winner? That is for me to know and for you to find out.
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This material, written by me, is free to re-post and share under the Creative Commons agreement. In other words, use it all you want; just give me credit.In my first post on accordions, I wrote of the sordid history of this instrument and its part in some of history’s greatest bloodbaths. Now we must deal with the present situation. Before I go on, however, I must do two things: first, I must tip my hat to Dr. Val, who pointed out that [...]
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This material, written by me, is free to re-post and share under the Creative Commons agreement. In other words, use it all you want; just give me credit.First let me say that technically there are two correct answers, although I added an adjective to the choices that made it a little easier to separate the two. The answer is: MRSA. Up to approximately two years ago, MRSA was limited to hospitalized patients. In general, it was not an invasive organism, but its [...]
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This material, written by me, is free to re-post and share under the Creative Commons agreement. In other words, use it all you want; just give me credit.OK – back to pediatrics. This one is quick. 8-day old male presents to the office with rash in diaper area. Mother noted it 4 days prior to the visit and had since gotten progressively worse. He was born full-term via c-section after an uncomplicated pregnancy. No significant problems prior to developing the rash. On [...]
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This material, written by me, is free to re-post and share under the Creative Commons agreement. In other words, use it all you want; just give me credit.In a recent Op. Ed. in the Wall Street Journal, John Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis compares the American healthcare system to the American education system: Our public-school system and our health-care system may seem as different as night and day. Yet both systems share something in common: Mediocrity is the [...]
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