A Country Doctor Writes:

Early in our careers, doctors have a tendency to triumph over serious or rare diagnoses we make as we marvel over our newfound skills and the logical complexity of the human body.

At this stage of mine, I often feel sadness when a patient I care for, and care about, develops a symptom that signals the possibility of a serious disease.

— Read on www.kevinmd.com/blog/2020/07/when-a-diagnosis-leads-to-sadness-instead-of-triumph.html

Here’s the podcast link:

https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2020/06/will-telemedicine-make-us-better-diagnosticians-podcast.html

A favor to Kevin:

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Today, on Father’s Day, KevinMD posted a plug for my new book with an excerpt that is close to my heart, describing my emotions when hearing fetal heart tones with the office Doppler and the flashbacks that brought from my residency training and my first ever delivery – a double footling breech – and from watching my children and my granddaughter in neonatal intensive care.

“Thirty years ago, I saw more births than deaths. Now I only attend departures. For a minute or two that morning, I was again participating, ever so briefly, in the greatest miracle a physician is privileged to be part of.”

— Read on www.kevinmd.com/blog/2020/06/participating-in-the-greatest-miracle-a-physician-is-privileged-to-be-part-of.html

Pain and suffering are warning signals that something has gone wrong. We can alleviate them to a degree, but so far, none of these treatments have brought back health.
— Read on www.kevinmd.com/blog/2020/06/theres-a-code-for-pain-but-whats-the-code-for-suffering.html

CONDITIONS – Diseases and Other Life Circumstances is the first in a series of books based on this blog. The eBook is available for preorder with a release date of 7/4/20 and I expect the paperback edition to be available around that time. Here’s the blurb about it on Amazon:

“A hundred short essays on diagnoses made, missed or just encountered and some of the human circumstances, destinies, tragedies and victories a country doctor has encountered during 40 years in Family Medicine.

Based on his blog A Country Doctor Writes, these vignettes by Swedish born physician Hans Duvefelt range from Alexithymia to what doctors call Zebras, exotic conditions they always look for but usually never encounter.

From delivering babies to attending timely and untimely deaths, they touch on many stages of life. Some pieces describe overlooked diseases and disease mechanisms and some describe heart rending life circumstances caused by both rare and common diseases.”

(Click cover image to link to book listing)

EARLY PRAISE:

“Hans is a wonderful storyteller. As a primary care physician myself, I look up to the wisdom, insight, and inspiration that resonate from his stories.”

(Kevin Pho, MD, Founder, KevinMD, Keynote physician speaker)

“Whether you are a college student or a medical student considering a career as a Family Physician or if you are a resident looking to learn from a master clinician or someone who enjoys stories from the world of practice, this book is for you.”

(Laurence Bauer, MSW, MEd, CEO Family Medicine Education Consortium)

“Hans is a great writer. His pieces capture the essence of being a Family Doctor in a small town.”

(Zoya Khan, Editor-In-Chief, The Health Care Blog)