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Things they never taught you in med school

No one ever taught me how to pronounce someone dead. I remember PGY 1 night float being called by the floor nurse that a comfort...

Foreign body retrieval

Alternate title: things I've had to remove from vaginas I get consulted by the hospitalist on a young woman admitted for something that hospitalists take care...

Do you ever deliberately use the nocebo effect with patients?

From the article: https://thesecondbestworld.substack.com/p/your-doctors-words-can-make-you-sick In 2007, a group of Italian urologistsran an experimentthat would make any bioethicist sweat. They gave 120 men with enlarged prostates the...

"Once Ive met my deductible

My patients dont understand deductibles. Though I am no expert either. Does this sound familiar? A patient needs an expensive medication (eg SGLT2 for DM2 +...