Browsing the archives for the medical education category

22Jan12 Horseshoes & Hand Grenades

Honorable mention!?!? Ay, caramba!

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6 Comments Posted by in health care finance, hospital care, medical education, medical ethics, medical urban legends, patient experience
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8Jan12 Touch me or Touch me not?

How vital is a doctor’s touch?

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7 Comments Posted by in medical education, medical innovation, patient experience, technology
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27Nov11 Where have all the young docs gone?

In my new role as one of the directors of an internal medicine training program, I help select new interns out of medical school for the three year training stint of residency. At the end of residency, many graduates go on to subspecialty fellowships, another two to four year period of intensive training in fields [...]

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8 Comments Posted by in hospital care, medical education, narrative, primary care
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24Jul11 County [Updated]

Those of you that like to see behind the veil of medical care in the U.S. will enjoy the new book by Dr. David Ansell: County: Life, Death, and Politics at Chicago’s Public Hospital. Ansell began internship at Cook County Hospital in 1978. He stayed there seventeen years. Along the way, he got involved in [...]

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18Jul11 Striving

Here’s the kind of story I love: Meet Dr. Albert Liebman of Milwaukee. A member of the Greatest Generation, he enrolled as a freshman at the University of Chicago in 1939. He answered the nation’s call to war by enlisting in the Navy in 1942. He’d only completed three years of college. Fortunately for him, he’d [...]

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5 Comments Posted by in aging, medical education, narrative
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