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How Do You Rank Residency Programs? Consider the Kind of Physician You Want...
I recently led a workshop designed to help medical students prepare for residency and how to choose the right program. At the end of the workshop, one of the fourth year medical students came up to...
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Contending with Dr. Google
Photo credit: Google and the Google logo are registered trademarks of Google Inc., used with permission. I find myself once again in the middle of a busy clinic where there seems to be more patients to...
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The Pictures on Your Phone Say a Lot
Photo credit: Russ Stitzlein Take out your phone and scroll through your photos. Chances are, your camera photo album tells your story, starting from the moment you got that particular phone, of...
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“Like” It or Not: The Ups and Downs of Social Media in Medicine
Photo credit: digitalART2 / Foter.com / CC BY Social media is here to stay. Not only is it here to stay, it is becoming a progressively pervasive mode of communications and the medical community is no...
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Digital Doctoring
Photo credit: By Matthew Bowden www.digitallyrefreshing.com (http://www.sxc.hu/photo/145972) [Attribution], via Wikimedia Commons I recently came across an old photograph of our labor and delivery...
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Three Smartphone Apps to Help Patients Save Money
Mitesh Patel, MD, MBA By: Mitesh Patel, MD, MBA Healthcare is expensive. The United States spends nearly $3 trillion per year on healthcare.1 Patients themselves bear a significant burden of this cost....
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The Weight of a Pager for a Medical Professional
Photo Credit: By Solomon203 (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia CommonsBeep, beep, beep, beep, beep....
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“What’s on your Christmas wish list this year?”
We asked our bloggers what was on their wish list for the holiday season, and here’s what they shared: Russell Stitzlein, MD For this year: 1. An uneventful second half to my PGY-2 consult year. 2. A...
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Assessing the Healthcare Landscape of 2017
Learn what’s new in the New Year of healthcare. Going into the New Year, it’s wise to assess the current healthcare climate, recognizing the various challenges and opportunities for growth in 2017....
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Navigating the Doctor-Patient Relationship
The benefits of a healthy doctor-patient relationship outweigh the efforts. With the onset of new technologies, social media, and modern-day practices, the doctor-patient relationship is becoming...
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