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Doctoring Unpacked

Mary Braun Bates, MD

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

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Getting the Sugar Down To get Other Things Up

“How are you doing?” I smiled at John.

“I’m doin’,” John says in his remarkably slow and steady cadence.

I remembered this 52-year-old diabetic did not have children and intermittently had a girlfriend. The usual questions about family we...

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The Low Down on the Low Count

“Sharique? It’s Amy. I was at a health fair at church and they said my blood was low. What do I do?” Nurse Sharique had typed up Amy’s voice message and sent it to me. She added, “Labs and bring her in?”

Sharique has been my nurse for a fe...

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The Unpleasant Way Older Patients Get Stoned

“Doctor Mary, I’ve* had two babies and I’d go through labor again rather than this pain! Not only that, but you get a baby at the end of labor. I got nothing for this, except a weekend where I couldn’t stand to leave my house and a $500 bil...

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Which Answer You Get Depends On Which Doctor You Ask

Ominously, Chloe was carrying a cookie as she walked into my office.

My assistant brings me a cookie whenever she has to deliver particularly bad or aggravating news to me. Just yesterday she’d brought me a cookie. It heralded an angry voi...

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Breakouts of Hidden Diseases

Like anyone who reads Substack, I am aware that exercise is good for me. Walking from exam room to exam room isn’t a lot of steps. And, like many others, I’m not a big fan of going to the gym. I do go, but I’m always on the lookout for some...

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