What Makes a Great Physician?
At this blog’s inception nearly five years ago, I asked myself the following question: “When you watch impressive...
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The Face and the Person
I carry the plenum of proof, and everything else, in my face. —Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass The importance of the...
Should Computers Replace Physicians?
In 2012, at the Health Innovation Summit in San Francisco, Vinod Khosla, Sun Microsystems co-founder and venture...
Becoming Cynical, Part 4
I have written quite a bit about why physicians become cynical (see here, here, and here). What follows are...
The Parkinson’s Patient
via Shutterstock In 1817, Dr. James Parkinson, an English surgeon, scientist, and political activist, wrote in An Essay...
On Evidence-Based Medicine
Physicians throw around the term “evidence-based medicine” a lot. Whether it’s an antibiotic, IV fluid, or...