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The Transition From The Analog Physician To The Digital Physician
While most of us fail to see it, doctors are changing. We’re changing as a result of the social and technological innovation. In 2050 what we do and how we do it will be very different from what we...
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What We Really Need: Teamwork In Medicine
Atul Gawande says that we’re used to doctors working like “cowboys” – rugged individualists who are responsible for making sure your care gets done right. We don’t need cowboys, he says. We need “pit...
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Earning Patient Trust Through The Power Of Touch
Abraham Verghese, MD, Standford University My wife has two world-class oncologists who help her manage her Stage 4 Lung Cancer. Both are excellent clinicians. Yet their skills differ in one very...
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Giving People Across The World The Best Medical Care They Can Get
Guatemala is a developing country, with great natural beauty, hard-working people and many challenges. Most Americans look at places like Guatemala and see only the challenges. Some see opportunity....
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Research Points Out The Down Side Of Chasing Success
Bill Gates once said: Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose. It’s clever, and it seems right. Now there is science to prove it. In a study published last...
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In Defense Of Doctors: Why We Act Like Jerks, And How To Handle Us When We Do
A Typical Jerk, M.D. Editor’s Note: This post is meant to be tongue-in-cheek. We sincerely hope that our colleagues are not offended by the use of the term “jerk” to describe physician behavior. If...
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Can A Simple List Of Questions Improve Doctor-Patient Communication?
The blog, Shots, posted a question primer to prepare patients for medical office visits with their doctors. A reaction to this appeared on Glass Hospital, where John Schumann offered his own wry...
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Therapy Is About Having An Honest Relationship, But Is Lying Ever OK?
We’ve been having a great discussion over on the post Tell Me…. An Ethical Dilemma. The post talks about a young man who wants to know if he can check “no” to a question about whether he has a...
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Understanding The Subtext Of The Therapeutic Relationship
When we talk about psychotherapy, one aspect of what we look at is the process of what occurs in the therapeutic relationship. This is an important part of psychodynamic-based psychotherapy, meaning...
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Study Looks At Online Physician Ratings
It’s time for some good news! A study that looked at online patient ratings about their physicians from 2004 through 2010 showed that the average physician rating was 9.3 out of 10. That is...
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