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Doctoring Unpacked

Mary Braun Bates, MD
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Common medical conditions, regular people, and a doctor who has all the time it takes.

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“Are you thinking about hurting yourself?”

As my patient, Leora, gets up to leave, I log out of the computer and follow her out of the exam room. Leora was quick. By the time I get out of the room, she’s a long way down the hallway.

Our visit had been disturbing to us both. I suspe...

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Leora On Track in a Scary Way

“Doctor Mary, I didn’t think I’d be in so soon, but I scared myself. Katie, my therapist, thought I should come in, too, so here I am.

“I was in my boss’s car. He was driving us to a training session and we got to a red light. There was a...

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Colonoscopy fiasco or merely an inconvenience?

“Doctor Mary, I felt like I* was a car getting an oil change rather than a human being getting a colonoscopy. Except it was worse! When I’m at the oil change place, at least if I tell them to check the air filter, too, if they forget, they...

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Hormones for Happiness?

I see that Leora is my next patient. Three months have passed in a flash. I click into the first note her therapist, Katie, has entered into Leora’s chart.

My eyes widen with each paragraph.

Patient here due to depression/passive suicidal...

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I Just Can’t Get Out of My Own Way

“I just don’t feel great, Doctor Mary. I’m always tired. I know I do a lot, but the kids are older and more on their own and I think I should be less tired, not more. Work is the same as always and Joel, he never changes. I’m still going to...

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