HeyJaredExamined
Vital and overlooked ideas your family doctor might share - if only we had more time.
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Me and you, gaming out the updated Covid shot (opens the original)
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Most of my patients are either getting updated Covid shots routinely, or summarily waving them off. Sometimes they stop me mid-sentence as I recommend them, their eyebrows furrowed, with a look of disgust, like I just told them to strike up a match and smoke. I’m done with Covid shots!On one level I get that. Covid is not what it used to be, and the natural psychology after a pandemic is to move on. Sometimes that includes making 85 year-old pu
Can we please skip stool tests and colonoscopies, and just get a blood test already? (opens the original)
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There it sat, neglected, on the stairs down to the basement. That Cologuard box and the personal reckoning with animal biology it entailed. Completing it had become a daily avoidance. For months.Personal confession aside, as a primary care doc I try to help other people with their own colon cancer screening options, avoidance, and sometimes protracted loathing. Getting something done is important, as colon cancer rates are on the rise, and we have a unique opportunity to both catch and prevent c
My September 11 vignette (opens the original)
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I’m reposting the third piece I ever wrote here on Examined, just a couple weeks after deciding to do this public writing. It got 1 like, and about 300 views. It’s a reflection written 5 years ago about the day that had occurred 20 years prior, on the occasion of 9/11/2021, with the pandemic still churning destructively. The USA had just finished finally pulling out of Afghanistan.If you haven’t had a chance to share your legend, your 9/11 vignette, or want to do so again, please feel free in th
Lebron, Odysseus and Dolly (opens the original)
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Can we learn from the disparate legends of Lebron James, Odysseus, and Dolly Parton?I spend a lot of my tedious days tending to flat numbers, diagnoses, and complaints. Medical records can read like banal corporate meeting notes. They chart events and conditions over days, weeks, and years in a kind of two dimensional Cartesian plane. But rarely do we have the time, energy, or inspiration to step back and contemplate the multidimensional, epic poetry within each person’s life. But these underlyi
The All Star vaccine lineup for this fall (opens the original)
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