Humanity in Medicine

Which Side Are You Really On, Jane Chin?!

I received what is probably the most passionate email from a reader of this blog that I’ve ever gotten since creating NakedMedicine.com in 2006. The email concludes with this: I can’t figure out what your agenda is Ms Chin. Are siding with the poor hard working physicians who are fighting a losing battle with their [...]

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Not Poor Enough or Not Sick Enough

Shirley Loewe had one of the most aggressive form of breast cancer (inflammatory breast cancer). Her tumor was already 4 inches wide when she was diagnosed in 2003. Adding insult to cancer, Shirley was repeatedly denied care because she was either “not poor enough” to qualify on Medicaid in Texas because she made $15,000 a [...]

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Religious Doctors May Not Be Called to Serve the Poor

For many doctors (religious or not), the practice of medicine is more a “job” than a “calling”, even though there may be an undercurrent of “desire to serve”. Ask any job applicant, and you’ll get the typical answer: “I am applying for this job because I want to help people.” Doctors enter medicine for many [...]

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A Daughter’s Sacrifice

I recently signed up for MyBlogLog.com, which has a cool widget that I’ve installed on this page to showcase recent visitors to this website. I’m also seeing an unexpected benefits from MyBlogLog.com – discovering interesting blogs that I otherwise may never find. For example, today I came upon a blog by a vascular surgeon. If [...]

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Why We Like the Doctors We Like

I’ve visited with many doctors in the past – primary care docs and specialists, both as a patient and years ago as a professional. I’ve come to really appreciate the importance of bedside manners and compassion in medicine. Because of some of the behaviors I have seen from doctors when I worked in the pharmaceutical [...]

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