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Joseph VaronEurasia Review |
Key Takeaways: On December 12, 1799, George Washington returned to Mount Vernon after several hours on horseback in snow, hail,
Key Takeaways: When was the last time your doctor actually examined you? I do not mean when someone checked your blood
Key Takeaways: When did saving a life start to feel like breaking the rules? When did the doctor at the
Key Takeaways: There is a phrase that no physician wants to hear when walking into an intensive care unit: “Doctor,
Key Takeaways: Medicine is always changing. In my career, I have seen intensive care units go from simple rooms with
Key Takeaways The recent earthquake in Venezuela brought back memories I have spent nearly 40 years trying not to relive.
Medicine is fundamentally oriented toward healing. Physicians have cured diseases, alleviated pain, extended life expectancy, and expanded collective...
War is the most unrestrained expression of humanity’s destructive capacity, a setting where order disintegrates, moral boundaries are tested, and
Contemporary medicine is not failing for lack of knowledge. It is failing under the weight of its own complexity. The
The sounds in my mother’s room during her final days stood in stark contrast to those that have defined most
The sound I remember most from the early days of Covid-19 is not the alarms. It was the silence between
In recent years, I have observed a concerning trend in clinical practice. Patients often present not at the beginning of
Recent studies reveal a striking statistic: over the last decade, approximately 30% of primary care physicians have either retired or
In medicine, silence can be more alarming than noise. For example, a patient who abruptly stops voicing discomfort or a
When I was a young medical student, I believed with all my heart that medicine was the highest calling a