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Doctors should fight fake health news at the checkout aisle

Benjamin Mazer, MD, MBA
Physician
June 24, 2017

I see them every time I wait in the inescapably long lines at the grocery store. They’re offering me so much. Fat-melting foods that “work like gastric bypass.” Sleep masks that prevent breast cancer. One day diets. And, of course, the perennial “medical miracles.” All these revelations can be mine with a simple magazine purchase.

It’s easy to dismiss the medical advice being propagated through the supermarket checkout aisle. Who would …

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Doctors should fight fake health news at the checkout aisle

What is the proper way for physicians to be leaders?

Benjamin Mazer, MD, MBA
Physician
June 12, 2016

In medical school, you learn very quickly that you can’t know everything. By the end of your first-year anatomy course, you’ll probably give up on learning the names of every part of the body, let alone the intricacies of how they function. As physicians, we must grow comfortable with our limitations. We seek help from our colleagues and try not to let our egos get in the way of patient …

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What is the proper way for physicians to be leaders?

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