Poiesis is a Greek term that evolved into the word poetry in English. According to Wikipedia, in philosophy, poiesis is “the activity in which a person brings something into being which did not exist before. Etymologically derived from the ancien…
Category: primary care
You need to ask these questions to teens starting hormone therapy
In medical practice today, we have all types of providers in charge of birth control counseling and treatment: medical doctors, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, licensed vocational nurses, and even medical assistants who report to their licensed…
The recent closing of Amazon Care shows the magnitude of the challenge in changing health care
Amazon recently announced plans to shut down Amazon Care, an in-home and virtual health care service. The reasons cited were attributed to a significant overlap of services with the One Medical chain of clinics, which Amazon purchased in July of this y…
Use connectivity to rise above our individual and collective challenges
With so much disconnect in our world right now, it can be a challenge for some to find ways to stay connected to meaningful things, people, places, and events. I won’t belabor my own list of disconnectedness, but I imagine many of your lists are …
Physicians did not go to provider school
“If both of you are the same, then one of you is unnecessary.” That’s one of my brother-in-law’s favorite quotes, and I think it’s applicable to the ongoing debate for physicians to be called “physicians” inste…
A scientific lens on life and intuition
An excerpt from On the Path to Health, Wellbeing, and Fulfilment. Scientific research provides us with answers, and in return gives us other questions. And, when its reach is recognized, it inevitably instills a sense of awe and wonder. What science ha…
A personal story about trying new things
You’ve got to understand that I don’t like anything being thrown at my face. Seriously. This fear goes back to my childhood in Ontario, Canada, when after school in the winter, the neighborhood kids got together to play hockey. Our back yar…
How to make primary care rotations more appealing for students [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “It is time that every health profession school specifies their criteria for optimal teaching primary care practices and for the training that would optimize their students’ experienc…
How whole-person care can make us better healers
My patient at a pain clinic on a military base in Virginia carried the deep wounds of war on his face. Not physical scars, but a sallow, slack complexion and a hollow-eyed look of exhaustion and defeat. A veteran of the war in Afghanistan, he had long …
How writing a letter on Substack might recharge your life in medicine
“The good life is ever-changing, challenging, devoid of regret, intense, creative, and risky.” -Friedrich Nietzsche One year ago, bruised and battered like any physician practicing in this pandemic, I decided to double down on weariness and…
