Andy Lazris, MD
Andy Lazris is an internal medicine physician.
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An excerpt from A Return to Healing. Patients often ask me to do whatever tests are necessary to make sure they don't have cancer or any other really bad diseases. It's called screening: Look for diseases before patients exhibit symptoms,…
An excerpt from A Return to Healing.
Patients often ask me to do whatever tests are necessary to make sure they don’t have cancer or any other really bad diseases. It’s called screening: Look for diseases before patients exhibit symptoms, then fix the problems before they can rear their ugly head. Many of my patients believe that they have had their lives saved this way, always by a caring and …
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Why screening for diseases you might have can backfire
Health policy
When I was a resident at the University of Virginia, my wisest mentors gave me one piece of advice that far exceeded all the scientific and statistical jargon that others expected me to swallow. Consider this: When patients walk into…
When I was a resident at the University of Virginia, my wisest mentors gave me one piece of advice that far exceeded all the scientific and statistical jargon that others expected me to swallow. Consider this: When patients walk into your room and sit down, shut up and look into their eyes. When they are done talking, have a conversation. The key word is conversation. The visit should not include a lecture or statistics …
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