Hitting a Nerve

Hitting a Nerve

Denial or a call to action?

Many of us excel at blaming our own symptoms, sometimes worrisome, on less-alarming things.

Hitting a Nerve

Music and the human brain

I don’t try to understand music any more than I try to understand my dogs. I just know I couldn’t live without either.

Hitting a Nerve

Sealing the envelope

How we practice medicine is focused on what we do for the patient, but lost in the shuffle sometimes is...

Hitting a Nerve

The problem with samples

In many cases, the time you save handing out samples isn’t worth the time you have to spend on them down the line.

Hitting a Nerve

Death from despair

In a world where major advances have been made in many areas of medicine, including mental health, suicide shows no sign of abating.

Hitting a Nerve

Is common courtesy no longer contagious?

It is distressing that the amount of rudeness is increasing to the point where we need to remind grown-ups about its consequences.

Hitting a Nerve

The ripple effect

Our care may set off a chain reaction we can’t see.

Hitting a Nerve

The waiting room: Then and now

Placing limitations on the numbers of family members in the waiting room makes the difficult environment of being there easier for all to deal...

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