Helen Rhodes, MD
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The medical landscape for practicing physicians is changing. Seemingly the option of "hanging one's shingle," being your own boss, setting your schedule, and providing personalized care in a warm and cozy environment, "Marcus Welby style," isn't a viable option anymore.…
The medical landscape for practicing physicians is changing. Seemingly the option of “hanging one’s shingle,” being your own boss, setting your schedule, and providing personalized care in a warm and cozy environment, “Marcus Welby style,” isn’t a viable option anymore.
Rather, graduating physicians are choosing between the options of becoming a hospital-employed physician, hospitalist, employed physician in a large multispecialty group, joining the faculty at an academic institution, or, sadly, electing …
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Don’t give up on private practice just yet
Conditions and diseases
Does your birth control pill put you at risk for cancer? Or, does it actually protect you from the disease? Recent headlines might have you wondering. Here’s what we do know: oral contraceptives — better known as the pill —…
Does your birth control pill put you at risk for cancer? Or, does it actually protect you from the disease? Recent headlines might have you wondering.
Here’s what we do know: oral contraceptives — better known as the pill — may impact a woman’s chances of developing breast and gynecologic cancers. In some cases, that means a bigger chance of cancer. In others, it means protection against cancer.
The reason? Most oral …
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Birth control and cancer: What you should know
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