A Country Doctor Writes:

Are Medical Practices More Like Solution Shops than Production Lines Now than in 2022?

Two months ago, I reposted a 2021 piece titled I am a Decision Maker, not a Bookkeeper. Tonight, looking at the stats of my WordPress blog, I saw that a…

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More and More Care is Going Virtual

The nationwide practice I work for, covering in person and video visits in northern Maine, is one of many practices using texting and video visits to…

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October 2025

American Primary Care and My Soviet Era Class Trip: Sensing the Inevitable Collapse of a Top Down Bureaucracy

From 2020, looking back to a 1977 med school class trip

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All God’s Children

From 2008, my first year of blogging

Oct 10 • 

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Maybe All Benzos are not Created Equal

I was taught, back in the Stone Age (late 1970’s), that clonazepam, introduced in 1975, had distinct antidepressant properties, besides being just…

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Night Call

A ten year old post looking thirty years further back

Oct 2 • 

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Acceptance Speech (long version): 2022 Carol Eckert, MD Memorial Award, Maine Primary Care Association

(Maine Family Doctor of the Year Award - Published October 5, 2022)

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September 2025

The Call

From 2010, still relevant…

Sep 30 • 

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I Am a Decision Maker, Not a Bookkeeper

From 2021 and it’s not any better now…

Sep 6 • 

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August 2025

Pseudodiabetes, the Newest Form of Our Chronic Disease Scourge

We all learned about type 1 diabetes in medical school.

Aug 29 • 

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“Thank You, Father”

A Housecall vignette from 2009

Aug 27 • 

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Fatigue, Tinnitus, Dizziness and Dyspnea. What’s the Diagnosis?

From 2021

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