Don Gaede, MD
Don Gaede is an internal medicine physician.
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An editorial in JAMA by Donald Berwick, MD, speaks about the "existential threat of greed in U.S. health care." He points his finger at all segments of health care, including physicians. In my specialty of vascular medicine, I have encountered…
An editorial in JAMA by Donald Berwick, MD, speaks about the “existential threat of greed in U.S. health care.” He points his finger at all segments of health care, including physicians.
In my specialty of vascular medicine, I have encountered a number of physicians who blatantly and repeatedly urge their patients to undergo saphenous vein ablations even though these veins, by my examination, are completely normal. These are often patients who …
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The dark side of medicine: an urgent call to action against greed
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My late father often repeated the adage, “Any man who serves as his own lawyer has a fool for a client.” We physicians may not represent ourselves in court, but we often try to treat ourselves or neglect our own…
My late father often repeated the adage, “Any man who serves as his own lawyer has a fool for a client.” We physicians may not represent ourselves in court, but we often try to treat ourselves or neglect our own medical care — and end up with a fool for a patient.
My uncle was a family physician who practiced in the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska. He was my childhood hero …
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