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Right Care Action Week — Be skeptical

Right Care seeks to be smart care. In the first part of my career, I rarely looked critically at the evidence. I was too busy; and I was more trusting of the vertical hierarchy of medicine. Eminence-based medicine seemed normal. Listen to the experts, for they are experts, went my mindset. Then something happened. When […]

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Informed

“I’ve read that…” “Did you hear about…” “So and so (publication) said this…” These days, medical information is like Kudzu in the Smoky mountains.  But just a few years ago, or so it seems, researching a medical topic took personal initiative and a not inconsequential time commitment.  Now, on an elevator at work with a […]