doctors

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/10/05/feature/doctors-are-surprisingly-bad-at-reading-lab-results-its-putting-us-all-at-risk/?utm_term=.1281be16ce03

I have not read it yet but the title is certainly meaningful. I'll get to it but wanted to post it. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/10/upshot/its-hard-for-doctors-to-unlearn-things-thats-costly-for-all-of-us.html

I had to share this with everyone. What a brave doctor to stand up and say this. As he is passionate about healing his patients and sees totally what is going wrong today with modern medicine. https://www.facebook.com/100002383437166/posts/2048737831882311/ -4:41 323,388 Views

This was an interesting and uplifting read, and not before time, I guess. NPR: Doctors With Disabilities Push For Culture Change In Medicine Doctors are often portrayed as pinnacles of health, superhumans responding to emergencies around the clock, performing miracles of all kinds. They're...

Miriam E. Tucker: CFS takes down doctors, too Registration is required to access the article. Tells story of Gary Solomon, Mark Vink and anonymous Dr. X and Dr. Y - all MDs who developed ME. Asked what he would like other physicians to know about ME/CFS, Vink responded "...that this is a...

Written by James Thambyrajah, a UK GP, According to the 'About us' section of the site, https://t.co/iQGtkgxHRE

https://runninonemptee.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/dont-call-doctor.html

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/03/well/live/when-doctors-downplay-womens-health-concerns.html

An interesting short article mostly about the influence of genetics on pain. https://theconversation.com/why-its-so-hard-for-doctors-to-understand-your-pain-93526

Link : http://metro.co.uk/2018/04/02/you-smiled-at-me-so-youre-not-depressed-whats-the-most-patronising-thing-your-doctor-has-ever-said-to-you-about-your-mental-health-7418916/ A couple of anecdotes from the article : There are lots more anecdotes in the article: Link ...

BBC Radio 4 today at 1230 and on iplayer afterwards. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09wr9q9 Doctor's Orders: Getting Tomorrow's Medics Cooking The Food Programme The NHS is at crisis point. Despite the diet books, the fitness videos, the health bloggers, in 2016, Public Health England...

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/we-need-to-talk-more-about-physician-burnout/ We need new metrics and means of accounting for many systems, for sure. This article focuses on doctor burnout, which is a very important topic in healthcare, and is a very good starting place. But...

" The best thing for patients and their care is to admit you don’t know everything. As a doctor, it is unnerving to confront an ailment that you don’t immediately know how to conquer. All those years of training, all those hours of study — and yet at some point, every doctor is confronted by...

Another date for our diary, Esther Crawley confirmed as a speaker at the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID) later this year: http://espidmeeting.org/2018/scientific-information/confirmed-invited-speakers#.WkuWyJCnzMI