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Are All the Good Drug Names Already Taken?
Am I the only one who thinks new drugs have worse and worse names as time goes on?
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Housecalls to Establish Connection, Telemedicine to Increase Efficiency
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Patients Are the Real Healers
The Swedish word for physician is läkare, which literally means healer. That seems a lot more glamorous than the American word physician, which is…
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RERUN: As a Vegetarian, I Gained Too Much Weight
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A Country Doctor Writes on KevinMD podcast
A Pandemic Era memory…
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Do Something, Do Nothing or First Do No Harm?
This morning, I reposted a piece from 2010 on my Substack, titled Doing Nothing, about an older woman who elected to leave her blood pressure untreated…
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Doing Nothing
First Published September 21, 2010
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December 2024

My New Life
First Published June 10, 2019
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The Year that Was
A year ago I had just wrapped up my work for a Federally Qualified Health Center in Maine.
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Who’s a Diehard Allopath? Not Me, Actually
An Early and Late Career Collaboration
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Christmas Reflections at Winter Solstice
When the sun set this afternoon, it had been one of the shortest stretches of daylight hours in my life – since I moved to this country at age 28, that…
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