Victor Montori, MD
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Physician voices
“Where do you find the most joy in your life?” This is one of the questions the Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit at Mayo Clinic asks people living with ongoing health conditions. Their answers give a sense of each person’s…
“Where do you find the most joy in your life?”
This is one of the questions the Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit at Mayo Clinic asks people living with ongoing health conditions. Their answers give a sense of each person’s purpose, reason for being, and for doing something difficult.
The answers are myriad; typical responses include “providing for my family,” “being there for my grandchildren,” or “taking care
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Why we need to end social COVID and establish care to replenish joy
Physician voices
An excerpt from Why We Revolt: A Patient Revolution for Careful and Kind Care. It was late at the premier teaching hospital in the country, and we were overworked and overwhelmed. Those patients in most trouble had made it in,…
An excerpt from Why We Revolt: A Patient Revolution for Careful and Kind Care.
It was late at the premier teaching hospital in the country, and we were overworked and overwhelmed. Those patients in most trouble had made it in, but many waited outside, a domino line from the threshold of the emergency room to the edge of the hospital. Those inside were on gurneys in the …
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A patient revolution for careful and kind care
Drugs and prescribing
Most everyone has had the experience of sitting across from a doctor, being offered a prescription and walking out the door. Most patients will accept the instructions -- maybe ask a few questions -- and move on. For some of…
Most everyone has had the experience of sitting across from a doctor, being offered a prescription and walking out the door. Most patients will accept the instructions — maybe ask a few questions — and move on. For some of those patients, the medications are more than a one-off; they are intended to be taken indefinitely.
One of the most common of these medications is a statin. Imagine you exercise four …
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Should I take a statin to lower my risk of a heart attack?
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