I’m tempted to lead with some bad joke, like Christian Zammas is exchanging hard drugs for soft. It is true. He has gone from using hard drugs to peddling soft one(s) - caffeine. [caption id="attachment_2584" align="alignnone" width="725"] This[/caption] All brought about by a sort of epiphany that has motivated him to gather up people with…
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The Hypochondriacle Downside of the Apple Watch 4
Call me skeptical, but the new Apple Series 4 watch, touted as having a “serious role as a clinical health tracker” makes me worry that it’s going to fire up the hypochondriacs. [caption id="attachment_2577" align="alignnone" width="707"] A Cool New Gadget[/caption] About to be on the market, the watch has improved heart rate sensor; a…
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Banana Pudding and the Making of a Good Doctor
Because I was writing about precepting a medical student, I looked back at what I had written before. I found this that I wrote 3 1/2 years ago: When the medical student likened the pieces of banana in the desert at the Chinese restaurant to Reed-Sternberg cells of Hodgkins lymphoma, I knew he had…
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Is This Self Prescribing OK?
The patient I saw in the clinic yesterday has fully embraced the Virginia senate’s unanimous vote decriminalizing medical marijuana it would seem. Edward C. was my first patient, being seen for the first time. “He uses quite a lot of marijuana” the nurses who checked him in told me. “He smoked some this morning”…
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