I’m taking a little time off around the holidays. Meanwhile, here are the top five posts from A Country Doctor Writes in 2021.
I just realized none of the posts show on an iPad or a computer, but they do show on an iPhone. WordPress is working on this. In the meantime, please visit my Substack.
Osler said “Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis”. Duvefelt says “Listen to your patient, he is telling you what kind of doctor he needs you to be”.

Read my VERY FIRST blog post:
Most Read This Week
- A Science of Uncertainty and an Art of Probability
- Working Too Hard Doesn’t Cause Burnout. Having to Do the Wrong Thing Does
- I Do Fewer Elective Procedures Now Than When I Started Out. This is Why:
- Trouble at 6 O'clock
- Reverse White Coat Hypertension in a Patient with Anxiety: Treat the Blood Pressure or Treat the Anxiety?

Blogroll (remodeling in progress)
Holiday Reflections
Older Favorite Posts
Posts That Went Unnoticed
Recent posts
- Could ChatGPT for Medical Advice Break Privacy Laws?
- Reading Glasses or 150 Year Old Eye Drops for Presbyopia?
- Uncertainty, Probability and Clinical Depth
- Confession of an Erratic Blogger/Substacker
- The Last Book I Brought Home From Medical School (I was an Editor): Terapikompendium
- Back in the Proverbial Saddle: Writing Again
- Kierkegaard’s Either/Or: A Prelude to Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil
- Medicare Denial of Oxygen: I wasn’t Stupid, Just Ignorant
- Test Balloon: A Country Doctor Reads
- Practicing Good Medicine or Chasing Star Ratings?
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So glad you republish these. A lot of good information. I had not read all of them before.