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A Medical Imaging Order is NOT a Referral
A Rejected Referral: Like a Novel Without a Title
Primary Care is Not General Motors
A Swedish-Born Doctor’s Thanksgiving
Beyond Pattern Recognition: Illness Scripts Versus Pathophysiological Reasoning
Are Medical Practices More Like Solution Shops than Production Lines Now than in 2022?
More and More Care is Going Virtual
Maybe All Benzos are not Created Equal
I Am a Decision Maker, Not a Bookkeeper
Pseudodiabetes, the Newest Form of Our Chronic Disease Scourge
Fatigue, Tinnitus, Dizziness and Dyspnea. What’s the Diagnosis?
Vertigo is a Symptom, Not a Diagnosis, and it’s Sometimes Caused by Loose Rocks Inside Your Head
“This Doesn’t Usually Hurt that Much”: Patients With Fibromyalgia Spectrum Disorder
Nailing the Diagnosis, Failing the Patient
We Use Too Many Medications: Be Very Afraid of Interactions
The Broken Promise of Computers in Healthcare: A Doctor From the B.C. Era Explains
Why Do Patients Trust their Doctor? Because He or She is a Competent Mensch
Where is Relationship, Authority and Trust in Healthcare Today?
Doctor-Patient Relationships: I Don’t Babysit – I Want to Empower
Can the Practice of Primary Care Medicine ever be Practical Again?
Physicians’ Communication Skills are Overlooked and Undervalued
Unsorted: Welcome to my World!
One Disease With Many Names: Which One You Use Makes a Difference in the PA Process
Sense of Smell as a Predictor of Mortality
“The physician–patient encounter is health care’s choke point” -NEJM
Revisiting the Advantages of aSOAP Notes: The Best of the Paper Chart and Old School Photography
“Practice at the Top of your License?”
The Perfect Office Note? SOAP, APSO or aSOAP?
Can Diabetics Get UTIs Because of Insulin?
Double-Booking the Doctor is Half-Booking the Patient
Between Patients: The Myth of Multitasking
The Case of the Dropping Albumin
The Power of Words, 16 Years Later
Medicine is a Love that Finds Us
Actor, Chameleon or Just a Good Doctor?
A Childhood Illness that Stumped a Pediatrician
Looking for Patterns, Looking for Change and Looking for Incongruity
17 Years of A Country Doctor Writes:
Three Dutchmen Walked Into an Eye Clinic
Maybe All Benzos are Not Created Equal.
A Country Doctor Reads: Repurposing Old Drugs for New Indications
The Virtue of Food in Public and Personal Health
The Sounds of Sleeping in Addicted Loved Ones
Helping Patients Accept Their “Imperfections”
THE BACK STORY: Invisible Ties.
As a Doctor, I Should be a Keener Observer and Notice the Pathology All Around Me
Bedside Manner and the Pendulum Effect
Hyposkillia, a Widespread Clinician Affliction
I Love Sitting Down in Front of a Blank Screen
Balancing the Virtue of Empthy with the Oslerian Ideal of Equanimity
The Virtue of Diligence in the Practice of Medicine
The Virtue of Curiosity in the Practice of Medicine
Virtues I Strive to Cultivate as a Physician
If Brevity is the Soul of Wit, Why are Clinical Office Notes So Lengthy?
When is Healthcare “Good Enough”?
What’s an Acceptable Margin of Error in Clinical Diagnosis?
Is There a Polite Way to Take a Medical History?
Are All the Good Drug Names Already Taken?
Housecalls to Establish Connection, Telemedicine to Increase Efficiency
RERUN: As a Vegetarian, I Gained Too Much Weight
A Country Doctor Writes on KevinMD podcast