What should you have in your little black bag? A letter to a young doctor Abstract. Rather than looking at which instruments to put in the traditional physician’s black bag, the changing face of medicine suggests that some virtua

See also: Schattner, Ami. "What should you have in your little black bag? A letter to a young doctor." Postgraduate Medical Journal 101.1194 (2025): 386-388.

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The Hidden Power of Humility: Elevating Patient and Provider Experience Through Clinician Self-Awareness and Patient-Centered Care - Marco Rizzo, Andrea Leep Hunderfund, Ann Pestorious, Thomas J. Welc... Humility is one of the most powerful and sometimes least understood virtues we can possess. It is often misinterpreted as a sign of weakness, especially today, ...

See also: Rizzo, Marco, et al. "The Hidden Power of Humility: Elevating Patient and Provider Experience Through Clinician Self-Awareness and Patient-Centered Care." Journal of Patient Experience 13 (2026): 23743735261415652.

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"Osler's call emphasizes that, regardless of the evolving landscape of health care, humility remains indispensable—it guides physicians to prioritize the patient and maintain the highest standards of ethical practice."

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a positive spin on some of the less glamorous consultations in ID.

the latest episode of "the host response"

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Short good read on improving patients' treatment expectations jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Painting by Dr. Tiff Caza! @glombandit.bsky.social #ArtofMedicine #CKDAwareness #DiabeticNephropathy

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It’s in that moment that I reach out to touch the patient or loved one That I feel best utilize that silent curriculum to convey every drop of the #ScienceOfMedicine into the compassionate moment that they need.
That we all need.
That I need.
That’s where I find the #ArtOfMedicine & heal my #burnout

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I spend such time scouring pt records, keeping up to date on literature, teaching/training healthcare teams, passionately practicing the science of medicine. But the failure and emptiness felt when it falls through…

You can’t teach gut feeling in medicine - but what you can teach is how & why to listen to these feelings if/when they show up.

We all have a story about a diagnosis made by gestalt.

Much as we’d sometimes like to believe, medicine isn’t strictly science. #ArtOfMedicine