A family physician re-invents herself.
Once you know something, it’s impossible to un-know it. This can be problematic for everyone, but it’s especially bad for doctors, who have knowledge of a vast number of conditions that can potentially kill people. About 10 years ago, as…
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(This post is part of a series meant to educate patients and clear up misconceptions that occur in the doctor’s office.) Dear Patient: There are some things I think you should know to improve your experience at your…
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In many ways, medicine has prepared me to be a productive and upstanding member of society. So it’s interesting that the practice of medicine also violates every rule of etiquette my mother taught me in childhood. Some examples follow. 1)…
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A number of years ago, in my first outpatient position, I treated a patient who suffered from anxiety and depression. Medication helped her, but only to a point. Together we’d identified her job as the chief source of her unhappiness….
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I’m a physician by training. I believe in science, in evidence-based medicine, in rationality. I’m more inclined to believe arguments that appeal to logic than to emotion. However, sometimes events occur which defy my attempts at scientific explanation. For example……
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