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On Keeping Clinical Instructors in Small Group Science Curricula

With so many medical schools experimenting with their curricula, either by adding small group study alternatives to lecture sections, or bringing patient contact into the first two years, that it’s...

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Medicine in Context 1: Principles

The practice of medicine is cultural. This is a fact worth remembering. The science that underlies medical diagnosis and treatment, screening, prognosis, and prevention claims a sort of objective...

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The Tarot and the Atkins Diet, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love...

The Hole in the Centerpiece When I first learned CPR, the sequence was simple. Two long breaths, followed by fifteen chest compressions, rinse, lather, repeat. The instructor emphasized these numbers-...

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On The Distinction Between Epidemiology And Interventional Studies

Why you might not need a mammogram this year I’m a lazy blogger, so I respond to published articles in major news sources, like this one: If You Feel OK, Maybe You Are OK. Precis form- pre-screening...

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My Only Title Here Is Mom: From The Other Side

A NICU is a terrible place for a social animal. How are you? Eye contact. A quick look- how is their baby? Going home is a good day. Bad days are unthinkable. In between is a terrible negotiation- your...

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What Should I Put in My First Aid Kit?

I was recently involved in editing a book on medicine in resource-poor circumstances, and the discussion on the first aid chapter collapsed into a disagreement on the nature of first aid. Having worked...

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In All Seriousness: First Aid

Okay, maybe that last post was a bit flip. The important question about first aid is, what situations are you expecting and what do you plan to do about them? There is something of an inverse curve...

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