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Despite the talk about team-based care, physicians today are isolated
My first job after residency was in a small mill town in central Maine. I joined two fifty something family doctors, one of whom was the son of the former town doctor. I felt like I was Dr. Kiley on Marcus Welby, MD. I didn’t have a motorcycle, b…
Physicians are problem solvers and artists
I keep thinking about the dichotomy between covering a lot of ground and getting to the point. The other day I saw my bosses at one of my clinics stop in their tracks when I suggested that a lot of the things we are measured on as physicians could be t…