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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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Tips: What Wine Pairs Well with Patients & Helps Me Cope with Them?

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We’ve all been there.  You’re at bedside with your patient and you find yourself stumped on which wine you should drink to best pair...

Fancy Medical Terms and What They Really Mean

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Nurses and doctors use fancy words to communicate and sound smart before patients, families and each other. Having spent most of his adult life...
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New Year’s Tips for an Unfulfilling, Short & Unhealthy Life

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The New Year is upon us so what better way to set ourselves up for disappointment than with New Year’s Resolutions.  As you lay...
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Physical Exam Tips: The Nervous System

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The physical exam of the brain and nervous system can be broken down into two parts: the lumbar puncture and everything else. Lumbar Puncture The lumbar...
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How to Write a Resignation Letter & Burn As Many Bridges As Possible

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With burnout at a record high and no signs of improvement in sight, there will be an increasing need for letters of resignation.  But...
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So You’re Paged While in a Bouncy House, What to Do Next

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There you are, jumping around happily in a bouncy house when the unthinkable happens: you get paged.  Well, maybe not unthinkable since you are...

Physical Exam Tips: The Lungs

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Examining one lung is hard enough, but two of them??!!  TWO??!!  UGHHHHH!!  This is so much work!  If you only have the stamina to...

Tips: How to Be the Coolest Doctor on the Block

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Over the past few months at GomerBlog, we've received thousands upon thousands of letters from doctors all over the world asking us how they...