A Day in the Life Scenarios
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MED SCHOOL ACCEPTANCE GETTING MORE DIFFICULT
Being accepted to medical school has always been a difficult challenge. There are a lot of applicants for the limited…
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WHEN A PATIENT DIES, WHAT’S THE DOCTOR’S ROLE?
WHEN A PATIENT DIES, WHAT’S THE DOCTOR’S ROLE? A couple of years ago I wrote a blog about the death…
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GOOD DOCTORS GET A’S
PHYSICIANS STRIVE TO GET “A’s” Even though many educational institutions have abandoned letter grades and adopted a “pass-fail” grading system,…
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NURSING HOMES: Memories I’d Like to Forget!
When I first started practice, I was the “new kid in town.” I was the new doctor who everyone called…
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MANNERS: WHAT’S HAPPENED TO THEM?
The dictionary defines manners as “social comportment, ways of behaving with reference to polite standards.” Basically, manners refer to the…
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THE CONCIERGE PRACTICE MODEL
ADDENDUM: A recent editorial in Medical Economics gave new perspective to the concierge practice model. Specialdocs, a company that transforms…
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I’M EMBARRASSED BY MY COLLEAGUES
I am continually embarrassed for and concerned about the medical profession. Yes, I’m embarrassed because of the image of physicians…
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DOING HIS PART TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF CARE
In the blog explaining why individuals go to medical school and why they choose a particular specialty, I mentioned the…
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CHOOSING A NURSING HOME
“Activities of daily living” (ADL) is a general term that describes all the common actions people do every day. Eating,…
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GOLF: Its Social Relevance is Underweighted
GOLF—all the other “four-letter words” were taken! Every golfer has heard that phrase, especially in reference to the maddening, frustrating…
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