Archive

• A Samurai Physician’s Teachings
• Doctoring in the Here and Now
• Absolute Risk
• Controlling Physician Behavior: From Socialized Medicine to Social Marketing
• Sharing Territory
• A Country Doctor’s Unlived Life
• A Minute of My Time
• The Art of Prognosis
• Touching the Mezuzah
• The Secret Of Life
• A Country Doctor Watches Marcus Welby, M.D.
• Blood – The Doctor Giveth and the Doctor Taketh: Myths, Beliefs and Evidence
• Rural Medicine – Not Just Runny Noses
• Journey’s End
• QS, Ad Lib and PRN
• Art, Science and Charity in Medicine
• The Art of the Referral Letter
• When To Take Medication
• Negative Expectations
• Cell Phones Welcome
• A Doctor By Any Other Name?
• Life and Death
• A Country Doctor Practices Telemedicine
• The Art of Listening: Narrative, Hermeneutics and the Electronic Medical Record
• The Gift of Healing: Pastor Graf and Henri Nouwen
• Jumping to Conclusions
• Today’s Masterpiece
• “I’m Sorry Mrs. Jones, But You Have Albuminurophobia”
• How to Clicker Train Your Doc
• Morbus Iatrogenicus
• Squandered Jing
• A Part-Time Healer
• Never Mind
• A Christmas Message to All Physicians from Sir William Osler
• A Far Too Typical Visit
• An Amended Diagnosis
• Off Course
• The Gift of One Day
• The Virtues of Oligopharmacy
• Whom Does the Medical Record Serve?
• In Manu Medici: The Art of Administering and Prescribing Medications
• Following the Path of the Soul
• Patient Centered or Evidence Based Medicine – Can we really have both?
• A Cleansing
• Lifetime Nutritional Balance
• A Drug Launch Lunch
• “I Know Your Type”; Doppelgänger and Archetypes in Everyday Medicine
• Dear Patient,
• The Counterintuitive Concept of Burnout Skills
• A Memorial Day Memento
• An Angry Diabetic
• Calling It Quits
• A Snowbird’s Return
• A Reluctant Interventionist
• A Sore Spot
• The Art of Scheduling: Air Traffic Control in the Medical Office
• Intuiting Alexithymia
• Clinical Instinct
• A Letter from the Board of Medicine
• An Embarrassing Allergy
• Regrets
• Useless Medicine
• A Judgment Call
• The Dance
• “Why Am I So Dizzy?”
• An Incomplete Workup
• Two Red Herrings
• A Red Herring
• “I Need A Doctor When I’m Sick!”
• “Will You Be My Doctor?”
• The Art of Measuring Blood Pressure: Pseudohypertension, Oscillations and the Silent Gap
• A Deadly Interaction
• Welcome Stranger
• Changing the Subject
• Night Flight
• B.C.
• Holiday Cheers
• Brand Name Drugs and Generic Prescribers
• Guy Talk
• Signing Off
• “Mommy, I’m Going to Die!”
• No Refill
• The Oldest Disease
• One Track Minds
• Amy Laughs With The Angels
• All is Well; Over and Out
• Finding the Way
• The Long Journey
• The Call
• Fearing the Worst
• Playing the Odds
• Mechanical Voices
• Fecal Occult Blood Tests Illustrate What’s Wrong With Health Care Today
• Dinner With A Homeopath
• Bitter Medicine
• Doing Nothing
• A Walking Time Bomb
• “Cure Sometimes, Treat Often, Comfort Always”
• Shooting From The Hip
• The Minimum Effective Dose
• “Would You Take Me Back?”
• “You Give Me Hope”
• Too Good to be True
• Why Not to be an Early Adopter
• “Dog Ain’t Right”
• Happy Birthday, Country Doctor
• Meals on Wheels
• “Treating to Target”
• “That Doctor Is A Nurse!”
• Continuity of Care
• A Bad Case of Congestion
• “Needs Prior Auth”
• The Last Supper
• Feeling Like A Doctor
• The 15-Minute Hour
• Beyond the Male Menopause
• One-Liners
• Abnormal Chemistries
• Switching Places
• The Emperor’s New Bones
• A Quick Listen
• Time, Money and Midlevels
• “But I Still Have Chest Pain!”
• Invisible Ties
• A Work Excuse
• Decision Support, Professionalism and the Lost Art of Healing
• Off The Record
• What Are We Doing?
• Problem List Problems
• A Negative Stress Test
• “You Don’t Know Me!”
• A Cancelled Appointment
• A Terminal Case
• Noah’s Journey
• The Jig Is Up
• Snap Diagnosis
• A Bad Case of Nerves
• Face-to-Face
• “Choices, Gentlemen”
• Scrubs, Ties and Stethoscopes
• Attitude!
• A Posthumous Blessing
• The Art of the Intramuscular Injection
• Quality or Conformity?
• Saying No
• Thanksgiving Potpourri
• See You Next Time
• Starting Over
• Who Needs a Physical?
• A Hero’s Pain
• A Real Pain
• The Shadow of the Object
• If You Find It, You Own It
• Trouble at 6 O’clock
• The Power of Words
• “Thank You, Father”
• A Thirty Year Anniversary, And I Missed It
• Basic Knowledge
• Who Wants To Know?
• Dear Doctor D,
• An Empty Stall
• Yesterday’s Children
• A Tale of Two Sisters
• My Most Expensive Instrument
• Thicker Than Water
• An Imaginary Mentor
• One Strike, You’re Out!
• Proof of Chickenpox
• Oh, By the Way, Doc
• The Apostolic Nature of Our Profession
• A Shot in the Arm
• My Annual Checkup
• A Physician’s Funeral
• Clinical Pneumonia or Virtual Health?
• A Negative Workup
• Instant Feedback
• Our Last Visit
• All My Children
• An Easy Keeper
• Local Firefighter Gives Doctor Thanksgiving Pie
• Loss of Power
• When I’m Sixty-Five
• What Do I Call You, Doc?
• A Change of Heart
• A Nice, Clean Doublewide
• A Train Wreck* With Two Car Wrecks
• The Concept of Risk
• All God’s Children
• No More Headaches!
• A Day Without a Diagnosis
• The Good Mother
• “Doctor, What Would You Do?”
• An Innocent Looking Rash
• Twinkle’s Back!
• It’s Only Pressure
• You Are What You Eat
• Happy Hour
• One Last Signature
• Left Behind (In the Dust)
• Playing Doctor
• My Father’s Eyes – The Photographs
• Visions of Little People
• A Concurring Second Opinion
• The Dreaded Visit with Priscilla Pye
• My Father’s Eyes – The Song
• An Anxious Daughter
• My Senior Colleague
• A Little Man
• Another Young Man
• Orthorexia Nervosa – Too Much of a Good Thing
• Altered Vision
• Choices in Swedish Health Care
• Is There a Doctor On Board?
• Friday’s Child
• Doctor Fix-It
• Tuesday Evening House Call
• Shadow Syndromes
• Physicians and Chiropractors – Like Priests and Rabbis
• Catch-up Time
• A Doctor’s Parting Words
• A Doctor’s Advice
• The Doctor’s Doctor
• Clara’s Sinus Headaches
• Physician, Heal Thyself!
• The Correct Diagnosis – Ten Years Later
• Adverse Effects
• Thoughts on My In-Room Cup of Coffee
• Losing a Patient Twice
• A Country Doctor Stops In Brookline
• Sally’s Dilemma
• Caleb Didn’t Limp Yesterday!
• Time’s Up!
• Chocolate – Good or Bad?
• Caleb, Our Horse with a Limp
• My Nurse’s Mother
• A Cobbler’s Mistake
• New Doctors: Too Few, Too Many or Too Late?
• Cholesterol Guidelines and the Bachelor with Platform Shoes