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MyChart Messages the Wild West of Patient Communication

33 Charts

The problem is that doctors work in what I call a zero-sum medical day. It’s the physics of physician bandwidth: You can’t add something without taking something away. The local family doctor wants to use antibiotics and we need to know whether we should fly to Dubai. Pretty simple. A cue for an action.

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Corona Together

StorytellERdoc

Being an ER physician facing this dilemma on the front lines of a large emergency and trauma center, I am also bearing witness to the more daunting picture of this dilemma--the mental and physical effects Covid-19 is having on our patients as well as on all of us. As before, stay connected through phone calls, emails and messaging.

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Readers Endorse Doctor Migration and Shun ‘Elderspeak’

Physician's Weekly

The article “ American Doctors Are Moving to Canada To Escape the Trump Administration ” (May 30) presents us Canadians with welcome news. In every part of Canada, in every province, there are not enough doctors. Please remind people of these serious complications which, though infrequent, cannot be reversed.