One Case, One More Lesson
One case, more than one lesson. The multifactorial nature of causation in a story. The 50ish woman came in for a complete physical with nearly every symptom on the review…
One case, more than one lesson. The multifactorial nature of causation in a story. The 50ish woman came in for a complete physical with nearly every symptom on the review…
Standing next to her, my nurse fields a phone call. Average, 25/day. The average family doc sees about 25 patients a day of a group of about 1500 under management,…
Dennis was a very interesting guy, whom I had gotten to know pretty well, along with a number of other members of his extended family. One day he came in…
In the early 20th Century, Niels Bohr created a model of the hydrogen atom that looked a lot like the sun and one planet: a central proton with an orbiting…
Long ago I was serving in the Charleston SC County hospital as a surgical intern on my first year rotation. An elderly man had an open sore on his ankle…
Sometimes faster than you can believe! In a family practice like mine, broken bones in little ones are not very common. Sometimes the family doc can handle them, sometimes not,…
One day in my first year, the most senior doc in our group of then 9 men asked me to listen to his patient’s heart. She was in her early…
Father Jones was shocked to find out his cholesterol total was 302, back in the day. “Father, you can try going on a low fat low cholesterol diet, but I’m…
You can learn a lot driving your teens around. Hillary B. had taught me that. After a little bit, the driver is no longer a parent, but just the chauffeur,…