![]() The incredible journey of pregnancy: endurance, resilience, and unconditional love Mukaila Kareem, DPT | Conditions.Breaking down barriers: Illinois bill calls for cultural competency training for physicians to improve health care for LGBTQ+ community Michael Pessman | Policy.Journeying towards ending oppression and becoming trauma-informed for meaningful change The Podcast by KevinMD | Podcast.To improve health care, respect doctors’ humanity with a living wage Kelley Butler, MD | Physician.Breaking point: the 5 reasons American doctors are dreaming of walking away from medicine Amol Shrikhande, MD | Physician.The truth about hard cases and abortion: Separating fact from fiction Michael McCutchen, MD, MBA | Physician.The insurance denial process: one oncologist’s fight against a broken system Jennifer Lycette, MD | Physician.The growing threat to transgender health care: implications for patients, providers, and trainees Carson Hartlage | Policy.Binary medicine harms our gender-expansive patients Alexandra Beem | Policy.Evidence-based medicine and bias: the truth about common therapies and clinical trials Benjamin Borokhovsky | Conditions.A glimpse into the fragile balance of life and death in the ICU Ton La, Jr., MD, JD | Physician.An inspiring tribute to an exceptional radiologist who made a lasting impact Kim Downey, PT | Conditions.Revolutionize your practice: the value-based care model that reduces physician burnout Chandravadan Patel, MD | Physician.Breaking the cycle of racism in health care: a call for anti-racist action Tomi Mitchell, MD | Policy.It’s time to replace the 0 to 10 pain intensity scale with a better measure Mark Sullivan, MD and Jane Ballantyne, MD | Conditions.I cannot imagine going back to a world where the doctor’s opinion was absolute, and there was little option for otherwise educating yourself. They should be totally clued in and always asking questions (despite being a doctor myself, I want to say to some of my colleagues: What the hell are you talking about, not wanting your patients to read up about the diagnosis afflicting their bodies!). For goodness sake, it’s their, or their loved ones’, lives we are talking about. I actually love the fact that patients and families can be well informed and read up around their condition. A very popular online meme that’s been circulated for years by frustrated doctors has been: “Don’t confuse your Google search with my medical degree.” I’ve heard that said countless times, albeit by a minority of physicians, and it’s always disappointed me. Unfortunately, this hasn’t always been met with enthusiasm by all members of the medical profession. ![]() One of the most important ways we are now using the internet is to make informed health choices and read up around our illnesses. And while we all know the many drawbacks of our current addiction to the online world, it’s difficult for anyone to say that it hasn’t been a net positive to society. Since then, of course, the internet has exploded and penetrated every facet of our lives. I remember in the United Kingdom, where I went to medical school, Google only became a thing perhaps midway through university. It’s also strange to think that most people alive right now received the bulk of their education in the pre-internet era. It’s difficult to imagine a world now without Google and the internet.
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