Over time I will be adding things I’ve been offering my patients for self-help or empowerment purposes.
The Lazy Man’s Guide to Calorie Counting
Fats: The Good, The Bad and The Deadly
The Why and When of Fingerstick Blood Sugar Testing
Top 25 Doctor Blogs Award
Read my VERY FIRST blog post:
Recent posts
- Covid-19 is Bringing Out the Worst Dishonesty in Some Patients
- A Country Doctor Reads: Why Sweden isn’t Restricting Personal Freedom During the Covid-19 Pandemic – Svenska Dagbladet
- Why Do Patients Trust their Doctor? Because He or She is a Competent Mensch
- A Country Doctor Reads: How South Korea Flattened the Curve – The New York Times
- A Country Doctor Reads: Job Crafting for Character – Harvard Business Review
- American Telemedicine Has Gone Viral
- Depression in Modern Times: We Have Many Friends and Followers, But Low Perceived Social Support Scores Can Make Us Sick
- Black Box Warnings: Time to Reconsider Our Disease=Drug Reflex?
- Hope is a Contagious Force of Healing
- As Physicians Today, We Must Both Represent the “System” and Disregard it
- American Primary Care and My Soviet Era Class Trip: Sensing the Inevitable Collapse of a Top Down Bureaucracy
- The Science of Placebo and Nocebo Effects Puts the Doctor-Patient Relationship on Par With the Effectiveness of the Pharmaceuticals We Prescribe
- Medicine is Child’s Play: Where’s Waldo, Spot the Difference and Whack-a-Mole
- “The Four Horsemen of the Medical Apocalypse”: It’s All About Inflammation
- Atherosclerosis and Nonstick Frying Pans: Newfangled Medications or Time Tested Lifestyle?
- My Favorite Visit: “25 Minutes with More than 50% Spent on Counseling and Education”
- Medical Records in Primary Care: Keeping the Story of Phone Calls and Medication Changes with Less than Perfect Tools
- Asinine, Backasswards Colonoscopy Insurance Rules Make Patients Decline Medically Necessary Testing
- Ad Usum Proprium: Physician, Treat Thyself!
- “I Want Complete Labs Ordered Before My Physical”
A Country Doctor Reads:
- A Country Doctor Reads is Moving
- Will Technology Keep Us From Thinking?
- Vitamin D for the masses? Nope
- Statin Interaction Reference
- Small practice, less doctor burnout?
- Cold, Wind, Darkness Kill
- BBC News: New ‘Trojan horse’ antibiotic promising
- Doxycycline and Tooth Staining | CDC
- British Doctors Also Suffer
- Obesity, Doctors and the Food Industry
