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Mere Mortal MD

Valerie Brooke, MD

How an ordinary human practices medicine in the challenging landscape of today's healthcare system.

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As soon as the physical therapist came up to me in the hallway at the end of last week, my defenses were already up. It really didn’t matter what words came out of her mouth. I already didn’t want to hear it. I know she was just doing her j...

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I’m not sure I could have ever become a physician that only cares for patients with one diagnosis, (ie, oncologists), or only cares for one part of of a patient’s body, (ie, dermatologists), or only does one thing over and over and over aga...

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