A family physician re-invents herself.
The little girl–I will call her “Jenny”–looked about five years old, and her curly brown hair and one-piece swimsuit were still wet. A few minutes ago she’d been screaming, but now an oxygen mask covered half of her small face,…
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(This post was previously published in a 2004 issue of Perspectives, the newsletter of the New Jersey Academy of Family Physicians.) The doctor is never off duty. I learned this firsthand the summer after graduating from medical school. The…
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There was a sudden crackle of static from the radio. “Rescue Squad to hospital. Pick up please, hospital.” One of the emergency room doctors got up and went to the device. He unclipped a small microphone that resembled a walkie-talkie…
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(This post was previously published on KevinMD.com.) Some doctors love to do procedures. Stitching, skin biopsies, removal of ingrown toenails—you name it, they’ll do it, and then they’ll ask for more. In fact, I used to have a senior…
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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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