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Stefan Kertesz
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The American College of Physicians announced that the *one thing* doctors should *not* take seriously is:

whether their patient with pain feels that they were helped

Dr Saul Weiner & I cover this and other pain-related disasters in our latest podcast On Becoming a Healer pod.link/healer/episo...
October 30, 2025 at 4:07 AM
After Dr Smith’s patient died, her husband brought him her diary.

What he read shocked him. He had failed at responding to a woman in the worst moment of her short life.

Dr. Smith is the guest on our latest podcast from “On Becoming a Healer”. That story is in this post
pod.link/healer/episo...
August 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
A week ago a limited bronchopneumonia hit

my temp spiked to 102 while my O2 sat hovered at 90%. The X-ray showed some odd and small infiltrates.

Antibiotics were given. I am not back to normal, but I am getting close.

Fencing on the left. I was breathless but in a week, I will be good !
August 3, 2025 at 5:44 AM