The Pressure to Diagnose: Meador and Balint on The Physician’s Creed
The doctor who treated the Coal Miner’s Wife in the story above solved the mystery both because he listened to his patient–and because he didn’t rush to diagnose. As Dr. Jerome Groopman, author of How...
View ArticleBreast Cancer “Awareness”: Marketing Fear — Part 1
Peggy Orenstein is a brave woman. A breast cancer survivor, she has faced up to the fact that perhaps, if she hadn’t had a mammogram that revealed a tiny tumor when she was 35, it might have vanished...
View ArticleA New IOM Report Reveals Why Medicare Costs So Much (Hint–It’s Not Just the...
George W. Bush is 67. Chances are Medicare paid for the stent operation that I describe in the post above. For years, medical researchers have been telling us that this procedure will provide no...
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