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Listing ID: 954
Title: DB's Medical Rants
Description: Dr. Robert M. Centor contemplates medicine and the health care system.
Category: Health
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listed on: June 10, 2008 07:15:44 PM
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Recent Posts:
| Family medicine vs internal medicine II - Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:43:56 +0000 |
| Thanks for all the thoughtful comments. A couple of themes predominant.Does family medicine training close doors?Some argue pro and some con. When examined objectively, family medicine opens many doors but does close some doors. Choosing family medicine clearly leads to primary care or a closely related field. Internal medicine still often leads to subspecialty training. [...] |
| What is scutwork? - Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:23:46 +0000 |
| From Wiktionary: tasks that are tedious and monotonous or trivial and menial, usually inherent in the operations of a larger projectPhysicians in training complain about scutwork. They use the term to describe anything that they would rather not do. Scutwork changes over the years. Back in the day, we complained of starting IVs, drawing blood [...] |
| Resident work hours - Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:50:24 +0000 |
| One of the first hot issues on Medrants (over 6 years ago) was the change in residency work hours. Recently the IOM has had a committee looking further at this issue. The report is out with some surprises and some new problems. Expert Panel Seeks Changes in Training of Medical ResidentsThe experts’ report, issued [...] |