I have treated over 10,000 bariatric patients across my career, and if there is one issue…
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When patients ask to pray: Navigating spirituality in medicine
Requests for prayer at the bedside are more common than many clinicians admit. Yet these moments…
Beyond physician burnout and understanding structural immiseration
We have been calling it burnout. The word took decades to arrive, and then it was…
How to win peer-to-peer calls: a medical director's guide
I review your peer-to-peer calls. Here is why you keep losing. I sit on the other…
Understanding Generation 2 patient engagement platforms
Patient engagement platforms are software systems that deliver clinical information to patients and manage patient questions…
The hidden realities of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and U.S. health care policy
The modern acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic was first recognized in the United States in early…
How diagnostic overshadowing delays hyperprolactinemia care
She was 16 the first time she noticed it. Milk. From her breasts. No pregnancy. No…
Bridging the gap in rural dementia care with technology
15642, five numbers that have shaped my life. We all have a zip code that we…
Lifestyle medicine support: Bridging the gap in patient care
As physicians, we rarely disagree about first principles. Nutrition, physical activity, sleep, stress, and behavioral patterns…
Balancing civil rights and trauma in an antisemitism investigation
In the wake of the October 2023 Hamas attacks on Israel, allegations of antisemitism surged on…