A Country Doctor

Practicing small town medicine for over twenty years and seeing three or four generations of many families has given me a perspective fewer and fewer physicians have today. 

Years ago I would write about medical topics and the practice of medicine in our local weekly paper, and now I am doing the same thing online.

“Progress Notes” refers to the daily or occasional entries a physician makes in a patient’s medical record on the progress of a case. In this case, the progress may be mine or the patient’s.

All names and specifics have been changed for privacy reasons.

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  • Want Shorter Wait Times at Doctor’s Office? Go to Alaska!
    A lot has been written about the frustration of waiting for a doctor who is running late. Here are some recent statistics… via Want Shorter Wait Times at Doctor’s Office? Go to Alaska!.
  • Are Surgeons More Handsome Than Internists?
    It has been statistically proven that surgeons are taller and more handsome than Internists and Family Physicians. I didn’t come across the evidence until now: via Phenotypic differences between male physicians, surgeons, and film stars: comparative study | BMJ.
  • Samuel Shem, 34 Years After “The House of God”
    Samuel Shem wrote under a pseudonym about the cruelty in medical training. This is what he wrote recently, in The Atlantic, about computers in the exam room: “One of the worries in how the new generation of doctors practice medicine is their use of computers. If you have a laptop or smart phone between you [...]
  • Consider Caring for Caregivers
    Spousal caregivers have a 63% higher mortality rate than age-matched controls. Do we (read: I) always stop and consider that when we see patients with dementia, cancer or other debilitating illnesses? Did I reflect on that with my own parents? My mother died a year and a half after my father… via: HEALTHCARE AS THOUGH PEOPLE [...]
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