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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.

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Democratization of Medicine: Does your doctor know best? Maybe not

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Jun 18, 20235 min read

Democratization of Medicine: Does your doctor know best? Maybe not

Not too many decades ago, in the history of medicine, healthcare providers were culled from the ranks of the clergy. These practitioners,...

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Welcome to the Dark Side of Your Medical Records

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Feb 2, 20236 min read

Welcome to the Dark Side of Your Medical Records

Once upon a time—and you know when I start with those four words, I’m taking you down a retrospective path—medicine reflected a sacred...

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Why Goldfish Have a Longer Attention Span than We Do

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Jan 19, 20233 min read

Why Goldfish Have a Longer Attention Span than We Do

We live in a world of constant, unpredictable, intermittent inattention. We are bludgeoned and bombarded with a tsunami of digital...

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Jan 11, 20234 min read

Now, where did I put my glasses?

A common medical term is sequela. You pronounce it like this: seh-QWEL-uh. And it means the after-effects of a disease. In other words, a...

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The Lesson from Damar Hamlin. Are You Prepared for the Worst?

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Jan 6, 20233 min read

The Lesson from Damar Hamlin. Are You Prepared for the Worst?

Damar Hamlin, a remarkable and beloved football player for the Buffalo Bills, suffered a cardiac arrest following what would appear to be...

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Another of Life’s Wonderful Lessons Because It Is a Wonderful Life

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Dec 3, 20222 min read

Another of Life’s Wonderful Lessons Because It Is a Wonderful Life

Photo from Unsplash Prior to the onset of the subzero temperatures here in the upper Midwest, there was a brief reprieve for many...

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The Asteroid That Destroyed Healthcare as We Knew It

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Nov 29, 20224 min read

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....

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Where’s the Canary in the Healthcare Coal Mine?

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Oct 31, 20224 min read

Where’s the Canary in the Healthcare Coal Mine?

Coal mining is a profoundly dangerous profession. Before there were federally mandated safety measures, these early pioneers were aware...

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Jul 5, 20225 min read

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...

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What Our Prehistoric Ancestors Taught Us about Social Connection (and Why COVID Changed All That)

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Jun 26, 20223 min read

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...

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May 20, 20223 min read

In a Heartbeat, Life Unravels

Here in Lake Woebegone, spring has arrived. Flowers are blooming, grasses growing, farmers are plowing and planting, and we lovingly...

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Jan 10, 20224 min read

The Queen's Gambit and COVID: Checkmate

An international chess game is brewing as Russia has positioned more than 100,000 troops close to the border with Ukraine. Any further...

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Like Rats in a Cage, Are We Witnessing the Collapse of the Healthcare System?

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Dec 27, 20214 min read

Like Rats in a Cage, Are We Witnessing the Collapse of the Healthcare System?

A classic laboratory experiment involving rodents goes something like this. These smart little caged rats quickly figure out if they...

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Dec 19, 20213 min read

Do I have to draw you a picture?

The virus variants affect us all, and our lives hang in the balance Growing up in the murky world of thoroughbred racing on the East...

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Dec 12, 20213 min read

“Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus”

The most reprinted newspaper editorial in the English language appeared in the September 1897 New York Sun when eight-year-old Virginia...

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Riding the COVID roller coaster. Have we reached the “Point of No Return”?

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Dec 4, 20214 min read

Riding the COVID roller coaster. Have we reached the “Point of No Return”?

Our world plummeted down the rabbit hole of chaos in March 2020 when the nightmare of COVID disintegrated our daily lives. With the...

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Sep 22, 20213 min read

Real People, Not Just a Number

Would You Do This If You Thought You'd Get Cancer? Let us imagine a football stadium. We don’t have to imagine because on any given...

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It's Not 'Game Over' with This Deadly Pandemic

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Aug 10, 20213 min read

It's Not 'Game Over' with This Deadly Pandemic

We're playing the same risky game with a deadly pandemic. We know what works. We know how to institute a game-winning strategy, but in...

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Troubled Times Call for a Declaration of Independence

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Jul 30, 20214 min read

Troubled Times Call for a Declaration of Independence

Troubling times. With COVID we have taken many steps forward toward eradicating this plague, yet now we are taking steps backward as...

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