A family physician re-invents herself.
(This post was previously published in 2005 in Perspectives, the newsletter of the New Jersey Academy of Family Physicians.) Sometimes I think I’m pretty smart. Of course, whenever I start to believe that, something always brings me back to…
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I’m a huge fan of the Lord of the Rings movies. I attribute this mainly to the brilliant story, beautiful cinematography, and the brooding sexiness of Viggo Mortensen. I loved the movies so much, in fact, that I sometimes brought…
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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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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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