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“I go by thickness”
One of our...
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Patient, heal thyself!
Octavio has prostate cancer. His prostate growth is large but localized.
“What do your doctors suggest?” I asked him.
“They sent me to...
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Tyranny by the numbers
Measurement without meaning is tyranny.
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Fungal failure
The it's-not-a-fungus problem seems impervious to both education and even to daily observation as obvious as it is ineffective.
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An iPledge Halloween
Jerry came to Boston to study; he'd finished 4 months of isotretinoin and needed one more.
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Cancer and conference calls
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Put the cash in the shoebox
Even when I was training back in the Pleistocene era, old Doc Greenberg was a throwback. During my pediatric residency, I accompanied him for a...
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Professional psychology
Expertise and psychology: Every profession needs both, including our own.
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The chief complaint
In medical school, they taught us to learn the patient’s chief complaint.
In dermatology the presenting complaint is on the outside, where...
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Damned documentation
Maybe little kids who used to dream of being firefighters will start to dream that they'll be file clerks with big red hats.
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Fake medical news: The black salve and the black arts
Three years ago, a frightened, middle-aged woman named Josie came to see me with ugly scarring all over her face.
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Absurdity
As the old comedian Henny Youngman might have said: Take my prior authorizations. Please!
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Why do people act that way?
You can try all you want, but you never really figure people out.Take Brendan. He spent a good few minutes chewing out my front desk staffer Linda...
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Facing the world
In a primal, visceral way, people who hide their faces are very hard to face.
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Isotretinoin and shea butter
I am always amazed at people’s capacity to believe that there is a unique regimen just right for them.