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...somewhere in between a scene from ER (complete with someone convulsing on a stretcher), and a slow day in my elementary school nurse’s office, but what I got was quite different. As a pre-med, I had always assumed that public health was removed from the patient, that it was about long term and broad changes, and that actual people suffering from illness and disease got lost in the melee of pamphlets, walks for causes, and mass emails. I was wrong...
...consider myself a patient guy. Not to mention, who doesn’t love a little underdog story...
...doctor who can make somebody feel better - that's the reason you go into medicine," says Pinsky. "And then a really important person says, 'Oh, you've done such a good job. You've made me feel so good.' What that doctor may not understand is that what that patient needs is to get off the drugs, which doesn't make them feel good and they get very angry and dismiss the doctor. Because they have unlimited access and there's always someone available to give them what they want...
...think it's wonderful, after Katrina destroyed so many people's homes and their lives, this lady went around helping people at their homes and making house calls." -Alice Gallops, a patient of Benjamin's (Associated Press, July...
...When you're face-to-face with a patient, you can't worry about the fact that they can't pay." -As quoted in a full-page ad in the Journal of the American Medical Association as part of the organization's campaign to get doctors to provide 50 hours of charity care each year (Chicago Tribune, February...