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- Gearing Up for More Videos
- HCC: Hierarchical Condition Categories = Handouts of Cash for Crooks
- What if Only 11% of Cancer Patients or Diabetics Were Treated for Their Disease?
- Tapering One SSRI to Start Another is Like Making a Gradual Switch Between Beer Brands
- Two Patients With More Than One Diagnosis
- Why My EMR Report Card Contains Mostly Metadata
- Practicing at the Top of Your License is Not an Option for Primary Care Physicians
- A Blast from the Past in My Blog Stats:
- Bucksport Recovery Community
- I Love Explaining Medical Things
- Ask Not What Your Next #EMR Can Do for You, Ask What You Won’t Have to Do for It
- All Body Parts are Not Created Equal
- Old Habits Die Hard in Medicine
- A Country Doctor Writes is Now Also on Substack
- What Healthcare Needs Today is Professional Grandmothers to Offload Burned-Out Doctors by Delivering Common Sense Advice that Medical Assistants aren’t Allowed to Give.
- Dear Patient, If You Have to Treat a Cold, Know This:
- The Unreasonable Burden of Specialty Level Diagnostic Specificity in Primary Care
- Record Breaker!
- The Future of Doctoring is Already Here: Do More, Give Less Or Burn Out
A Country Doctor Writes: 
I really like your explanation. I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism, but I didn’t have the normal symptoms. I’ve been lucky in having great doctors that explained a low lab means Hyper and supplements needed to be reduced. From 1998 to about 2014, I was a mess because I couldn’t find a doctor with any sense. I found an immigrant doctor that understood what I meant, when I said, “I have hypothyroidism, but I’m taking too much thyroid. It’s been years since I met a doctor that can read a THS screen. They say the lab is making a mistake. The results are now out of range and my blood pressure is going haywire.” My doctor got my TSH under control by reducing my thyroid supplement. Thyroidism is one of the most undiagnosed medical problems in America. I used to think that it was because they didn’t know the symptoms. it’s because they were not taught to read lab results.
I had it explained how hypothyroid slows down the heart and damages the big muscle, and the hyperthyroidism speeds the heart up and damages the valves. That was followed with an increase of thyroid supplement, which pushed my conductor to beg and beg for a slowdown. i am so grateful for my current doctor that got me stabilized in about 8 weeks. I was amazed. That was about 6 years ago, and I’m still thankful for her skill.
I don’t understand why I don’t have heart and kidney problems. My BUN-CREATININE is in range, in spite of everything.