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Friday Reflection 44: Diagnostic Enigma
Ask general internists what they love about their field, and they are likely to talk about long-term relationships with patients and the pleasure of …
1 year, 4 months ago
How can we do better as a county hospital?
My lecture to the cancer care staff at a county hospital.
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1 year, 4 months ago
Friday Reflection 43: The Absence of Reassuring Counterfactuals in Clinical Medicine
Even when a decision is clear, and things turn out badly, the lack of a counterfactual allows endless second guessing.
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1 year, 4 months ago
What Medical School Looks For and What Medical School Should Look For
I discuss how medical students are selected, and perhaps how they should be selected.
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1 year, 4 months ago
The Retirement of Dr. Mark Siegler
Remarks about a model clinician.
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1 year, 5 months ago
Friday Reflection 42: Patient Approaches to a Doctor’s Visit
It would be foolish to argue that doctors are unaffected by how they are treated by patients. Their treatment may not affect the care they deliver an…
1 year, 5 months ago
A Discussion with Professor Venk Murthy on Coronary Artery Disease
When I type the words coronary artery disease I bet that you picture angiograms with stenotic lesions—blockages in colloquial language.
Indeed a high…
1 year, 6 months ago
Impella, Mammograms and Med School Fails Students
VP fixed the audio
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1 year, 6 months ago
Fear and Opioids in Academic Medicine
Regard for power implies disregard for those without power; part 3
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1 year, 6 months ago
A discussion with interventional cardiologist Dr David Cohen on medical evidence, TAVR and stroke prevention
David Cohen is one of the smartest docs on Twitter. I learned a bunch talking with him.
The procedure called transcatheter aortic valve implantation …
1 year, 6 months ago