How SyncMD Got Started
Paul Buehrens About a decade ago EL was working with his mentor EK, a leading healthcare data scientist, on a project for an AI tool in healthcare. EL had been a startup…
October 1, 2023
The Value of the Buddy System
One day my middle aged patient who loved to go crabbing and fishing came in with an alarming tale. He had fresh crab on the boat, which attracted yellow jackets,…
How can someone with dementia give informed consent?
When I had 30 nursing home patients, one of them, Mr. Otto A., fainted several times and proved to have a cardiac dysrhythmia (Atrial flutter) for which the best treatment…
What works for colds???
Just dealing with the common cold and sinus infections is actually pretty hard! First, it’s hard to know just why folks come in, but usually there’s some additional agenda: a…
Mountain blueberries: Placebo or miracle?
One of my elderly ladies in the nursing home started having rectal bleeding in her early 80s. The workup revealed surgically curable sigmoid colorectal cancer. That is, she had colon…