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Personal Observations on the Changing Scene In American Medicine: 1955 to 2010
Clifton K. Meador, M.D. When I entered private practice in 1962 (after graduating from medical school in 1955, completing a medical residency, serving two years in the Army Medical Corps, and completing a NIH Fellowship in Endocrinology), there was no Medicare, no Medicaid, and very little medical insurance of any kind. Patients paid cash, […]
Why I Kiss My Patients
| June 11, 2014 By Pamela Wible, MD I started kissing patients in med school. And I haven’t stopped. During my third-year pediatric rotation, I would stay up late at night in the hospital, holding sick and dying children. I’d lift them from their cribs, kiss them, and sing to them, rocking them back and forth until […]
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