Opinion
How not to establish rapport with your patient
With COVID waning and masks doffed, I've found myself back to handshaking.
Opinion
Morning PT
Now more than ever, I feel we have to be physically fit to deal with a physicians’ day’s work.
Opinion
Get action! – Teddy Roosevelt
Explained waits are more tolerable than unexplained waits and giving updates always help. If you’re running an hour late in the office, have your...
News
How to become wise
Wise is more than being brilliant at bullous diseases or knowing how to sleep train a baby.
News
Could ChatGPT write this column?
I asked ChatGPT to write an article about itself in the style of Christopher Hitchens. It was nothing like his incisive and eloquent prose, but it...
Opinion
The loss of letters
Upon my skinny, adaptable desk the other day sat a white envelope that was hand addressed to me. It was postmarked more than 2 weeks before.
Opinion
Time for a rest
I asked some docs when they thought this feeling of exhaustion first began. We agreed that the pandemic, doubledemic, tripledemic, backlog have...
Opinion
Sick call
A recent Medscape survey of physicians found that 85% said they had come to work sick in 2022.
Opinion
The ‘root cause’ visit
“How did we miss out on that?” “What?” my physician friend replied as we stood in line at the coffee cart. “Root cause. I mean, we invented this...
Opinion
Dignity
We've driven medicine to the efficient and left little of the dignity it seems.
Opinion
Dig like an archaeologist
He was a fit man in his 40s. Thick legs. Maybe he was long-distance walker? The bones of his right arm were more developed than his left – a right...
Opinion
‘I shall harm’
Nocebo, from the Latin “I shall harm,” is the dark counterpart to the placebo.
Opinion
“How long, how long to sing this song?”
I thought about my patient’s suffering and the brutal injustice of fate. It feels like it’s everywhere lately.
Opinion
One weird trick to fight burnout
Why do some older workers recharge daily and carry on while many younger ones say the daily grind is burning them out?
Opinion
The work after work
Are you a super doer, reluctant doer, admin denier, or admin avoider?