Do you ever have one of those days, when it seems like every patient is coming in for the same thing? And that you’ll never remember the differences, when it comes to doing your dictations at the end of the day?
A few weeks ago, six of my appointments had as their chief concern “ear pain.” But of course, in the end, no two ears were at all alike. I love …
5 cases of ear pain lead to different outcomes
Sometimes we get help from unexpected sources. Two of my patients showed me this, during their recent hospitalizations.
The first is a woman I’ll call Hazel. I’ve taken care of her for twenty years, and she’s probably had emphysema for ten of those, but had not yet ever been hospitalized for it. She has continued to smoke, and I suspect that she has not gone out of the house much for …
When patients get help from the unexpected
The month of September has been Women In Medicine Month (according to the AMA) since 1989.
Statistics are always telling:
Medical eponyms: Where women are clearly underrepresented
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