Vital and overlooked ideas your family doctor might share - if only we had more time.
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Me and you, gaming out the updated Covid shot
Most of my patients are either getting updated Covid shots routinely, or summarily waving them off. Sometimes they stop me mid-sentence as I recommend them, their eyebrows furrowed, with a look of disgust, like I just told them to strike up...
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My September 11 vignette
I’m reposting the third piece I ever wrote here on Examined, just a couple weeks after deciding to do this public writing. It got 1 like, and about 300 views.
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Can we learn from the disparate legends of Lebron James, Odysseus, and Dolly Parton?
I spend a lot of my tedious days tending to flat numbers, diagnoses, and complaints. Medical records can read like banal corporate meeting notes. They cha...
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I am a practicing family physician. My writing is a creative synthesis of medical ideas, emerging science, and first hand experience. I believe in excellent primary care.
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