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Why Your Doctor Doesn’t Listen to You
Doctors often spend more time in front of a computer than in front of the patient. How to get your doctor to pay attention.
Dr. Ed
Dec 14, 20245 min read
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Now What Do I Do?
When the Healthcare System Lets You Down Several years ago a promising baseball pitcher in his twenties was destined for stardom. He had...
Dr. Ed
Apr 11, 20244 min read
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I Need a New Doctor. Now What?
The letter arrived out of the blue like a notice from the IRS about an upcoming audit. The letter went something like this: Dear Valued...
Dr. Ed
Dec 4, 20233 min read
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The Asteroid That Destroyed Healthcare as We Knew It
We humans survived on the grassy plains of East Africa millions of years ago by the power of community. The power of connectedness....
Dr. Ed
Nov 29, 20224 min read
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What Dorothy Said to Toto
In the 1939 iconic musical fantasy, Wizard of Oz, Dorothy cradles her little dog Toto when a tornado transports them from her home state...
Dr. Ed
Jul 5, 20225 min read
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What Our Prehistoric Ancestors Taught Us about Social Connection (and Why COVID Changed All That)
Let us turn back the clock several million years. We humans survived in small groups of families and clans. We sat around campfires, we...
Dr. Ed
Jun 26, 20223 min read
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Life after COVID (Spoiler alert: not much different) but Medical Care Is Changed Forever
Our nightmare of death and misery is over a year old now. We live with spikes and plateaus, shots and deniers, masks and distancing,...
Dr. Ed
Mar 23, 20213 min read
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The Doctor in the Mouse: Why telemedicine is the one stunningly hopeful change COVID has created
As COVID infections spread in mid-2020, and as isolating was recognized as the path to prevention, patients were reluctant to show up for...
Dr. Ed
Dec 3, 20205 min read
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