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An Administrator’s Tips to Health Care Providers for Curing Burnout

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Burnout is prevalent.  Most of you reading this are burned out.  What can we do?  How can we preserve our sanity?  We sat down...
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GomerBlog’s Tips for Fixing Healthcare

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Hey, cave dwellers: medicine is broken.  To fix it we're going to need a little elbow grease. Here are GomerBlog's sure-fire Tips for Fixing Healthcare: Stall,...
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Get Your Questions Ready, It’s Time to Ask Gomerfrog!

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Meet Gomerfrog, our new Gomerblog frog!  Gomerdog was getting lonely and asked that we even up the ratio of animals to humans.  The rest...
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Tips: How to Manage Your Pent-Up, Work-Related Rage

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Many jobs, in particular ones involving working at the hospital, have a certain way of… how do you say… taking you there.  One of the...
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Physical Exam Tips: The Heart

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In this series, we review the physical exam, the intermediate step in a patient evaluation that ultimately leads to imaging.  There are so many...
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How to Become Gluten Intolerant

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Ever wonder how you can become gluten intolerant even if you don't actually have gluten intolerance or celiac disease?  We have found a video...
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Tips: How to Worsen Your Already-Terrible Bedside Manner

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You may find your bedside manner is pretty terrible given how busy you are and your general frustration with humanity as a whole.  If...
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Tips: How to Defuse the Angry Patient (or at the Very Least, Make Things...

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Handling the angry patient (or family member) is a very delicate situation, so we should all be grateful that we were never educated on...
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Tips: How to Read the New England Journal of Medicine

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STEP 1: Grab copy of New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) from mailbox. STEP 2: Pretend to read through the cover contents, enough to cause...
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The Difference Between RICE & Rice

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Today, we distinguish between another two often-confused entities: RICE and rice. RICE is an acronym that stands for Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation.  RICE is...