Onc professor, pall care, hospice,@MayoClinic. 14 marathons.@AskDoctorEd. Tweets=mine. Books:How Not To Be My Patient. Farewell. Instagram: AskDoctorEd
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"The ideal setting to discuss who makes medical decisions if you can’t and how the trust is structured and your wishes for your funeral is best handled during the light of day rather than under the glare of the beeping monitors in a busy emergency room." lttr.ai/AgAbI
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With a hand on the doorknob and a “see you next year,” your doctor is about to disappear. How to make your doctor pay attention to you.
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The burned-out physician is more typical today than in the past when the friendly family doc made house calls and took a chicken in payment.
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With our computerized electronic health record, medical notes are then pulled forward and are accepted as gospel by subsequent evaluators of the patient. Why this is wrong thinking.
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Make the most of your exam room visits and make your doctor pay attention to you and not the computer.
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Getting prescriptions for erectile dysfunction and hormonal imbalance has many more implications than just answering a short questionnaire online
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Doctor as Patient: A View from the Other Side of the Bed
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A Mayo Clinic physician tells how to make your doctor pay attention
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Your doctor makes a note on the computer screen, jumps up, and heads to the door. Wait, you say. What to do next.
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Why Your Doctor Doesn’t Listen to You and how you can control your exam room visit: lttr.ai/Aex62
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It was September, the leaves were turning, the air was crisp, and they each knew that winter would be on its way.
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The question always arises whether this technology replace the cognitive judgment of the physician. The answer is no.
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Do I have to connect the dots? What to do when the healthcare system lets you down.
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Failure means misdiagnosis, the wrong treatment, and a spiraling of the patient, even death. Why a second opinion can matter.
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You don’t need a scary event and a ride in an ambulance to realize the importance of these family discussions.
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You get the same sense of accomplishment and value when you cook something from scratch, build the Harry Potter Hogwarts Castle out of LEGOs, or knit a sweater.
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Includes current data including trials published this month! #ASCO24
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