Feedspot ranks all kinds of blogs. ACDW is usually on the Best Doctor Blogs list. This year I’m number 9.
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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”.
BOOKS BY HANS DUVEFELT, MD
Top 25 Doctor Blogs Award
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A Country Doctor Writes: 
You ought to be in the top 3 or 5. (I can’t say that I keep up with them all.) From my point of view, though, you speak with an individual voice and a wide frame of reference, both medical knowledge and comfort with human emotion. Not the usual combination. Of course, corporate and digital medicine wants to take over, for one main motive. I’d recommend that you not let that dominate your writing. Hey, what are we doing this for? —-more for the fun that Anton Chekhov got out of it than $. Bill Houghton
Sometimes I just HAVE to speak up about the craziness and that’s when I get the most views, but I agree, the stuff about the soul of medicine is what I most enjoy writing.
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