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You may have noticed the ads on the site/newsfeed. I am sorry to those who I offend for wanting to earn some money from blogging. I am doing my best to keep the ads as reasonable as possible; let me know if there is something way off-base. Please note that I have a new tab [...]
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For those who greet doctors with snarls You should go and read Dr. CharlesHe writes with both thought and compassionAnd his stories can really be smashin’ And if there’s a poet inside youBut accolades have been denied youThen send him your very best versesYou patients and doctors and nurses This contest should give motivationYour [...]
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It’s not our fault Getting Along (Part 1): Doctor Rules Favorite Shame Dear Insensitive Person How to Be A Good Patient Ask Dr Rob: Resilience Joi De Vivre An Open Letter to Consultants These are a sampling of older posts that highlight the fact that I feel the patient, not the doctor, is the center [...]
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Dear Patients: You have it very hard, much harder than most people understand. Having sat for 16 years listening to the stories, seeing the tiredness in your eyes, hearing you try to describe the indescribable, I have come to understand that I too can’t understand what your lives are like. How do you answer the [...]
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I have no single thing I want to write about today. I am weary of the obvious topic: the “passage” of the 6-month extension on the SGR, but do feel I need to comment. I am tired of this. I am tired of being jerked around by congress. I am tired of congress hitting the [...]
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I was going to call this post “shout outs,” but I didn’t want to infringe upon others’ copyrighted material. This is basically the same thing for me – it’s a post to highlight some great stuff going on elsewhere and to thank people for their kindness, graciousness, and for simply not slapping me. A String [...]
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For some reason, the search for “dating patients” as come up a lot on my side bar. Now it seems that it has generated enough curiosity as to what I say on the issue that people are regularly clicking on “dating patients.” They are disappointed to find out, however, that I have never written about [...]
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I was in a local coffee shop and noticed a display for a new kind of coffee: I was most intrigued. Drug of Choice Coffee is the baby of a fellow Augustan, who actually publishes a medical periodical (which has even included posts by your’s truly!). Given the fact that I worship at the java [...]
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I will be the guest tonight on the Blog Talk Radio show of my blogging buddy, Dr. Anonymous. There’s no specific topic, but I’m sure I’ll talk blog, podcast, llamas, and perhaps some nuclear physics. I may even give some cooking tips. Come by and visit the show. Tonight at 9 PM (Which is 8 [...]
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