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Don’t let your caregivers bully you with their guidelines
As a practicing physician educator and health system administrator this Story about brusque care blindly following controversial guidelines without shared decisions deeply saddens me. The behavior of many of the caregivers described is clearly not compassionate, or...
How doctors can inadvertently create badly biased medical decisions.
This Story from NPR about a risky and not fully tested medical procedure approved by the FDA but marketed using the "sexy" title of "vaginal rejuvenation procedure" provides a great example of why it is important to take charge of your own health decisions. It’s...
Screening for cancer is a complex decision
The decision to screen for cancer is not as easy as just wanting to find cancer early. The screening test must be followed by more definitive tests, which have some risks. As with all medical decisions, you should discuss the benefits, risks, alternatives and unknowns...
Knowledge is important, but taking charge of our health through collaboration is more important: the example of fibromyalgia.
A recent study published in the British medical journal reveals why strong collaboration is so critical to good healthcare. The authors tried to compare aerobic exercise and Tai Chi for treating fibromyalgia. Both are known to be effective for some patients; so the...
Collaborative health care is the best health care. And the most affordable.
A recent news article on NPR describes a patient experience with doctors who prescribed an effective but very expensive medicine to treat a minor toenail fungus they noticed but that the patient did not even go to them for. This story illustrates why the best care is...
Another new drug found to have severe adverse effects years after FDA approval
A trial presented recently at the American College of Cardiology found that a novel medication for preventing gout increased both cardiovascular and all cause deaths compared to an older medication. One of the principles of good medicine is to weigh benefits, risks,...