The value of schema

Our research and anecdotal experience both tell us that our learners are most interested in our thought processes.

The scope of diagnosis – some thoughts after attending #DEM2018

As a clinician educator, I often spend significant time with the students, interns and residents on such concerns.

We must also educate patients and families that sore throats in adolescents and young adults can become life threatening.

Previous proposals have suggested allowing Medicare to negotiate prices. This idea has not gathered enough support previously.

This problem invades health systems, hospitals, and independent practices. You can all contribute additional examples.

This study does give us another reason to approach fitness like younger athletes. Fitness really does matter.

The story that influenced this post haunts me. How can a test lead to such a tragic end? Yet I understand the implications of these tests.

I called him the next day and he told me that he had taken the pill, gone to sleep and awoke asymptomatic. Diagnosis likely confirmed.

Around 20 years ago, while I was still doing outpatient medicine, a 65-year-old construction worker came as a new patient with diffuse pain.

Do we just use the term when we want to stray from protocol or algorithm? I found this definition which gets us part way to an understanding.