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...Patients like Tim might eventually tell you why they went to the doctor if you keep on asking long enough...
...train hard in medicine is to develop good clinical judgment: a feel for things. It's a lot like what tells a good cook the roast is ready, or a good teacher that the kid nodding in back doesn't really understand. Clinical judgment often makes a doctor do things the "objective tests" do not support. Trusting what you see in the patient more than what you find in the chart is a common exercise of medical judgment. You see it used by the doctor starting antibiotics on a sick child with a negative culture, transfusing a patient whose blood...
...outdone, the Los Angeles Times executed the most precious of unintended ironies, labeling the decision an “unconscionable U-turn” while offering a detailed and dispassionate description of the abortifacient procedure, by which “a doctor partially extracts a fetus from the uterus into the birth canal, where he then collapses the skull by suctioning its contents...
...trying to understand why medicine is imperfect and how one navigates that world either as a doctor who is trying to learn the skills along the way or as someone just trying to think about what should happen in medicine from any vantage point,” he says...
...University of Pennsylvania, this relationship could translate into reduced quality of care for patients. Patients may receive drugs that aren’t the cheapest or aren’t best suited for them, said Caplan, adding that a neutral system provided by the government to educate doctors on drugs would be preferable to the current system. Campbell acknowledged that these gifts gave certain drug companies an unfair advantage. “We know that this influences doctor prescribing practices. That’s old news,” he said. “It’s marketing. It?...