Trust, but ask: A conversation worth having before the year ends
Trust is the quiet engine of medicine. Without it, no diagnosis truly settles, no treatment plan feels safe, and no reassurance genuinely reassures. For…
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Trust is the quiet engine of medicine. Without it, no diagnosis truly settles, no treatment plan feels safe, and no reassurance genuinely reassures. For…
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Intelligence, no matter how sharp, does not protect us from uncertainty.
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A few days ago, a longtime patient sat across from me and asked a question I didn’t expect.
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It’s strange being on this side of 50. We, doctors, are used to interpreting numbers — creatinine, cholesterol, ejection fraction, GFR — and making sense of…
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Medicine will test your knowledge, but it will also test your heart. The real exam begins after the oath-taking — when there are no grades, no medals, no…
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When I was a young medical student, I thought the people who taught me Medicine were defined by their titles — professors, consultants, chiefs of service.
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The heart is our most faithful companion. Long before we open our eyes to the world, it is already beating — and it will not rest until our final moment.…
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When doctors falter, one patient suffers. When leaders deny the truth, a nation suffers. And always, it is the people who pay the price.
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My mother asked me recently: “Why do we always think universal healthcare means government hospitals? Can’t private hospitals and doctors do it?”
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How we can train, recruit and keep the people who actually make ‘care’ happen
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