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Joseph Varon

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The Treatment Was Worse Than The Disease – OpEd

The Treatment Was Worse Than The Disease – OpEd

Key Takeaways: On December 12, 1799, George Washington returned to Mount Vernon after several hours on horseback in snow, hail,

27.09.2026 5

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Medicine Has Forgotten How To Touch The Patient – OpEd

Key Takeaways: When was the last time your doctor actually examined you? I do not mean when someone checked your blood

13.09.2026 6

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Saving Lives Should Not Require Permission – OpEd

Key Takeaways: When did saving a life start to feel like breaking the rules? When did the doctor at the

03.09.2026 7

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America’s Drug Shortage Is A National Security Crisis – OpEd

Key Takeaways: There is a phrase that no physician wants to hear when walking into an intensive care unit: “Doctor,

28.08.2026 10

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The Vanishing Art Of Presence – OpEd

Key Takeaways: Medicine is always changing. In my career, I have seen intensive care units go from simple rooms with

05.08.2026 20

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The Day The Hospital Disappeared – OpEd

Key Takeaways The recent earthquake in Venezuela brought back memories I have spent nearly 40 years trying not to relive.

10.07.2026 10

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From Healing To Harm – OpEd

Medicine is fundamentally oriented toward healing. Physicians have cured diseases, alleviated pain, extended life expectancy, and expanded collective...

25.06.2026 10

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When War Teaches Medicine – OpEd

War is the most unrestrained expression of humanity’s destructive capacity, a setting where order disintegrates, moral boundaries are tested, and

10.04.2026 30

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The Lost Art Of Medicine: What Maimonides Knew That We Forgot – OpEd

Contemporary medicine is not failing for lack of knowledge. It is failing under the weight of its own complexity. The

06.04.2026 30

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The Last Lesson My Mother Taught Me – OpEd

The sounds in my mother’s room during her final days stood in stark contrast to those that have defined most

27.03.2026 20

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What Covid Policy Did To Doctors Who Refused To Stay Silent – OpEd

The sound I remember most from the early days of Covid-19 is not the alarms. It was the silence between

14.03.2026 20

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The Quiet Crisis Of Procedural Medicine – OpEd

In recent years, I have observed a concerning trend in clinical practice. Patients often present not at the beginning of

05.03.2026 30

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The Silence Of The Waiting Rooms – OpEd

Recent studies reveal a striking statistic: over the last decade, approximately 30% of primary care physicians have either retired or

07.02.2026 30

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Insect Loss As An Early Warning Of Systemic Biological Failure – OpEd

In medicine, silence can be more alarming than noise. For example, a patient who abruptly stops voicing discomfort or a

27.01.2026 30

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The Lost Vocation Of Medicine: From Calling To Commodity – OpEd

When I was a young medical student, I believed with all my heart that medicine was the highest calling a

07.10.2025 40

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