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For Americans retiring abroad, discover top retirement destinations around the world offering affordability, healthcare, quality of life, and beautiful surroundings.
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Money in Medical Education Makes Me Sad
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JULY 22, 2024
I call it therapeutic fashion. Practice patterns. Beliefs. Ways of doing things. Examples: patients with new heart failure get coronary angiography; patients with chest pain without evidence of heart attack get stress tests; certain drugs and devices become favored over generics. The curious thing about many therapeutic fashions is their lack of evidentiary support.
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I once had a section chief who was fond of telling me to “make it count twice.” If I was doing work for one part of my job, she suggested that I try to use it for something else. If I worked hard on a lecture for our students, maybe I could turn it into a paper or a workshop to give at a meeting. If research into a patient’s problem raised some interesting questions, maybe I could try to answer these questions as part of a research project.
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