by Elizabeth | Mar 28, 2017 | Break the Status Quo, For Doctors and Physicians
Putting Medical Science Under the Microscope, Part 2 Last Friday morning, the Medscape Internal Medicine digest which popped into my inbox contained the following two news items: Statins Increase Diabetes Risk Up to 50% in Older Women ‘Suggestion’ of...
by Elizabeth | Mar 27, 2017 | Break the Status Quo, For Doctors and Physicians
Putting Medical Science Under the Microscope, Part 1 Last year Nature published a survey in which well more than half of the 1,500 scientists surveyed stated they have been unable to reproduce the results of medical research — even when they were trying to...
by Elizabeth | Mar 23, 2017 | For Doctors and Physicians
Fear is the Last Thing We Need in Medicine I recently watched Danielle Ofri’s TED talk titled Fear: A Necessary Emotion For Doctors. Dr. Ofri begins her talk by relating how she became paralyzed with fear while in the middle of resuscitating a dying patient...
by Elizabeth | Mar 14, 2017 | Chronic Illness, For Doctors and Physicians, Loneliness
Why Your Doctor Doesn’t Know About the Greatest Threat to Your Health In my last post, I talked about the ways loneliness ruins your health. I suspect the statistics I quoted were a complete surprise. Chances are you’ve never heard anything about the...
by Elizabeth | Jan 18, 2017 | For Doctors and Physicians, Health at Work
What Burnout Says About Medical Training In my last post I posed several questions about physician burnout, questions designed to probe into the culture of medicine which creates and sustains burnout. It’s easy to point to the pressures of regulation, declining...
by Elizabeth | Aug 31, 2016 | Break the Status Quo, For Doctors and Physicians, New Frontier of Health
Your Mission Matters A few years ago, when I was skiing with my brother on a little-used ski run, we came across a skier who’d just fallen. Without a second thought, I stopped and offered to help. There wasn’t much I could do while perched on the side of a...
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