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Category Archives: Patient Stories
Figuring Out What Primary Care Is All About
After three years of clinical practice, I’m still not sure what being a primary care doctor means. This is especially odd because not only am I on the verge of completing my training in internal medicine (yes!), but have also … Continue reading →
Forgetting to Counsel Patients About Their Chronic Diseases
The recently instituted 30-hour-shift “work restrictions” placed on medical residents have created a need for “dayfloat” services to safeguard potentially unsafe handoffs in patient care and help residents adhere to duty hour limits. The past two weeks I’ve been the dayfloat … Continue reading →
A Great Save?
In the real world of medicine, “great saves” are rare. Most patients that you expect to die will die, and those who experience a cardiac arrest or code rarely survive. Mr. GR is the closest I’ve seen to an exception to … Continue reading →
Posted in Patient Stories
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Tagged cardiovascular disease, heart attack, heart disease, prevention
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A Gentle Scolding
At the end of a busy afternoon, Mrs. MJ was exactly the kind of case I needed. Two of my patients had come in late but needed to be seen and another was acutely short of breath and refusing to … Continue reading →
Sometimes It Takes A Village
“You know, what Mr. HD really needs is for his mom or somebody to chain herself to him…” [the ICU team laughs] …”But seriously, he needs to be watched over, he needs to be talked to. He needs someone to … Continue reading →
Posted in Patient Stories, Thinking Out Loud
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Tagged health care delivery, health care reform, heart disease, HIV, kidney disease, preventive health
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