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Welcome to A Country Doctor Writes:
My writing is on my blog, started in 2008, and often also on The Health Care Blog, KevinMD, Australia’s Medical Republic and now and then on other sites…
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Books by Hans Duvefelt, MD
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You are What You Think
Once a voracious reader, I now find myself listening to Blinkist or audiobooks
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A Medical Imaging Order is NOT a Referral
There’s an incredible confusion in some medical practices about which outgoing orders are referrals and which are not.
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A Rejected Referral: Like a Novel Without a Title
Today I had reason to review a medical chart of somebody I had never met before.
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Primary Care is Not General Motors
From 2014…
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A Swedish-Born Doctor’s Thanksgiving
Somebody asked me today what Thanksgiving is like in Sweden and I answered “there is no Thanksgiving because we didn’t have the pilgrims or the Native…
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The Power of a Diagnosis
Another Early and Late Career Collaboration with Lilian White, MD
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Beyond Pattern Recognition: Illness Scripts Versus Pathophysiological Reasoning
I read an interesting and a little provocative article in JAMA this weekend, Critical Thinking for 21st-Century Medicine—Moving Beyond Illness Scripts…
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Are Medical Practices More Like Solution Shops than Production Lines Now than in 2022?
Two months ago, I reposted a 2021 piece titled I am a Decision Maker, not a Bookkeeper. Tonight, looking at the stats of my WordPress blog, I saw that a…
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More and More Care is Going Virtual
The nationwide practice I work for, covering in person and video visits in northern Maine, is one of many practices using texting and video visits to…
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American Primary Care and My Soviet Era Class Trip: Sensing the Inevitable Collapse of a Top Down Bureaucracy
From 2020, looking back to a 1977 med school class trip
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All God’s Children
From 2008, my first year of blogging
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Maybe All Benzos are not Created Equal
I was taught, back in the Stone Age (late 1970’s), that clonazepam, introduced in 1975, had distinct antidepressant properties, besides being just…
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A Country Doctor Writes:
A Country Doctor Writes:
Notes from a doctor with a laptop, a housecall bag and a fountain pen. Day-to day and career reflections from a 1979 Medical School graduate practicing on Maine's Canadian border.
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