The Reverend Dr. Michele Shields joins me on Oahu’s amazing North Shore to talk about why patients’ spiritual needs can be as crucial as their “physical” ones.
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Why Hospital Chaplains ROCK
- June 28th, 2018
The Newborn Vitamin K Shot
- June 26th, 2018
Some new parents, in their zeal to keep everything “natural,” refuse newborn vitamin K shots. Here’s why that’s a terrible idea.
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Viral Video of a Doctor Being Racist??
- June 13th, 2018
Yet another secretly-filmed viral clip emerges of an emergency physician and a patient in conflict. Here’s MY take.
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Why Should Doctors Deserve Our Trust?
- June 12th, 2018
Tom Hinueber tells a harrowing, personal story illustrating why he believes our current healthcare system has failed his family.
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Awake During CPR?? NOW WHAT?
- June 5th, 2018
The terrifying case of awareness during CPR and what it means for medical ethics and emergency care.
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What I Learned on Hospital Rounds Today
- June 4th, 2018
Social determinants of health are not the most important factor at play. They’re the ONLY factor at play.
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Doctor Sues Patient Over Bad Yelp Review
- June 3rd, 2018
Is this a long overdue reckoning, or a violation of patient and consumer rights?
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The Magic Pill?
- May 29th, 2018
Can a high-fat, low-carb diet fix EVERYTHING??
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What The Heck Is Gaslighting?
- May 27th, 2018
HINT: it is NOT lighting one’s farts. But it might just stink as much.
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Georgia Doc Twerks In The OR (And Then Things Get Real)
- May 24th, 2018
She’s a maniac…MANIC…in the OR? Where the bounds of professionalism, medicine, and those sick beatz intersect…
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How To Help Our Colleagues With Mental Illness
- May 14th, 2018
What can Margot Kidder teach us about destigmatizing mental illness.
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Trump’s Former Doctor Is A Disgrace
- May 3rd, 2018
The rarified world of VIP medicine.
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