Ralph Freidin, MD
Ralph Freidin is an internal medicine physician.
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Medical education
Every fall, medical schools welcome nearly 20,000 college graduates. They arrive anticipating endless hours of lectures, too much coffee, and infinite facts to memorize. There is one thing they do not expect, however. I know. Forty-nine years ago, I was…
Every fall, medical schools welcome nearly 20,000 college graduates. They arrive anticipating endless hours of lectures, too much coffee, and infinite facts to memorize. There is one thing they do not expect, however. I know. Forty-nine years ago, I was one of them.
The first day I walked onto the wards was in spring of 1967. I was in St. Louis, doing my second year of medical school. Previously my presence …
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A routine heart exam. An unexpected problem.
Physician voices
On my way to the hospital last week, I heard a 26-year-old woman describe her experience of becoming deathly ill. When she first realized that the many bruises appearing spontaneously across her body were unusual, she was working as coffee…
On my way to the hospital last week, I heard a 26-year-old woman describe her experience of becoming deathly ill. When she first realized that the many bruises appearing spontaneously across her body were unusual, she was working as coffee shop to pay off school loans. With the urging of a friend, she went to see a physician. The diagnosis was acute leukemia.
Her job did not provide health insurance and …
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Am I going to die because I cannot afford the test?
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