Hitting a Nerve
Hitting a Nerve
The Charlie Brown tree
With the stresses of the holidays and other year-end chores, a sad little Christmas tree is a reminder to keep a sense of humor.
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Software templates: Use at your own peril
Any sort of default setting in medical office software can’t be taken for granted.
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Should health care be a right?
In the United States, health care isn’t guaranteed, as it is in many other countries.
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Asking about gun ownership: A loaded question?
Someone with impaired judgment, cognition, self-control, reasoning, and memory shouldn’t have access to guns.
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Drug abusers will find a way
If everything that can be abused gets banned, all we’ll be left with are Tylenol and Preparation H.
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Ruminations on health care spending
$18 billion is a lot of money if it’s being spent on fruitless treatments.
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The dubious value of online reviews
While there are pros and cons to the whole online review thing, in medicine there are mostly cons.
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No such thing as an easy fix
A lot of research papers dangle the promise of an easy cure, but offer nothing definite.
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Horse hockey notwithstanding
Sometimes I look at my younger self, and wonder what I’d really say to him if we actually met.
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The doctor circuit
We all come to medicine with varying degrees of curiosity and analytical ability, and once those are refined by experience they don’t shut down....
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Muscling through the data
Sometimes no amount of solid data will change the mind of someone who’s already made theirs up.