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The Last Book I Brought Home From Medical School (I was an Editor): Terapikompendium

Rummaging through medical textbooks and notebooks from medical school in my library the other day I rediscovered a compendium that I had almost…

Mar 4 • Hans Duvefelt, MD

Back in the Proverbial Saddle: Writing Again

First, a side comment about languages.

Mar 1 • Hans Duvefelt, MD

February 2026

Kierkegaard’s Either/Or: A Prelude to Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil

I listened to a couple of Blinkist book summaries tonight.

Feb 13 • Hans Duvefelt, MD

Medicare Denial of Oxygen: I wasn’t Stupid, Just Ignorant

I got an ominous looking fax in my electronic inbox today.

Feb 5 • Hans Duvefelt, MD

German word for the elite, literally over-people or above-people

Feb 2 • Hans Duvefelt, MD

Of Mites and Men

OK, so I’m no John Steinbeck (from 2023)

Feb 1 • Hans Duvefelt, MD

January 2026

Test Balloon: A Country Doctor Reads

I once had a Wordpress blog, and I think I’m still paying for the domain ”A Country Doctor Reads”, where I wrote about my eclectic reding, not only from…

Jan 27 • Hans Duvefelt, MD

Practicing Good Medicine or Chasing Star Ratings?

The other day, I saw a senior citizen for an annual wellness visit.

Jan 24 • Hans Duvefelt, MD

What do Mushrooms and Charles Bonnet Syndrome Have in Common?

I read an interesting piece in the BBC app on my iPhone this afternoon.

Jan 23 • Hans Duvefelt, MD

A Spot-On Analogy

From my last year of Bucksport Saturday Walk-In Duty 2019

Jan 18 • Hans Duvefelt, MD

Leveraging Time by Doing Less in Each Chronic Care Visit

So many primary care patients have several multifaceted problems these days, and the more or less unspoken expectation is that we must touch on…

Jan 16 • Hans Duvefelt, MD

Medicine: Quick and Easy. Metamedicine: Slow and Hard.

Last Friday, I spoke with a new patient who had a history of chronic abdominal pain, often worse upon awakening.

Jan 9 • Hans Duvefelt, MD

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