Australians are confused when it comes to Christmas. I know this because I was down-under once, doctoring at Christmas time – following my great grandfather’s footsteps, who was an Irishman/doctor who got a wild hair and emigrated to Australia in the gold rush of the 1850’s - on the same boat many of his fellow…
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The Biter Bit – They Want Me to Take Blood Pressure Medicines
When my doctor told me my blood pressure and cholesterol are too high, and I jokingly told him “that’s a problem, because my three favorite food groups are salt, fat and alcohol,” he still rolled his eyes and looked disapproving. Worse, he told me he wants me to take medicines. That's About My Reaction Now…
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Breaking In Medical Students to the Real World
“Like drinking from the fire hose” was how Scott, the second year medical student from UVa who was precepting with me last week, described life in the real world
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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