Letters from Maine
Letters from Maine
Targeted warnings
There is a difference between harmless foolishness and stupidity, and one wonders when and in what manner we pediatricians should become involved...
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Do you P.U.I.?
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Try a little D.I.Y.
While we’re waiting for our health care nonsystem to straighten out, we need to take better care of ourselves.
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The bloated medical record
It may be time to reconsider the purpose of the medical record.
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Pain mismanagement by the numbers
Pain is a complex, multifaceted phenomenon. Distilling a person’s pain experience to a single number doesn’t make sense, nor does reflexly...
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Meaningful work
Every job has its meaningful and meaningless components. The problem is that we in primary care medicine are facing a landscape in which the...
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Affirmative action 2.0
It’s time to begin anew our search for inclusion-promoting strategies that will pass the Supreme Court’s litmus test of legality.
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Dangerous grandparents
It can be a touchy subject in families, but grandparents should be reminded that their behavior may be setting a bad example or putting their...
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Home management of belly pain
For the most part, Dr. Moms and Dads are handling their children’s abdominal pain appropriately, but little is known about the rare and often...
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A glimmer of an answer to long COVID
When we are trying to discover what is making our patients sick, we must adhere to our traditional practice of taking a good and thorough history...
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WOW! You spend that much time on the EHR?
After a couple of decades, there is no well defined way of quantifying the time-gobbling effect of an EHR system.