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Clinical practice guidelines are a common way of summarizing the standard recommendations for medical conditions. After the research was initially published last year, I grappled with the evidence, or lack thereof, reaching a conclusion that I mainly still supported the annual visit, if only because it establishes a solid doctor-patient relationship

If it's an academic institution, a bevy of medical students, interns and residents accompany an attending physician from room to room, checking up on the patient, doing a daily physical exam, reviewing the latest test results and highlighting the relevant teaching points. [...]computers handily beat out patients:

When doctors tolerate a culture of disrespect, we aren't just being insensitive, or obtuse, or lazy, or enabling. We're in fact violating the first commandment of medicine

"When we read or hear a poem that's truly effective," says [Rafael Campo], "we feel what the speaker is feeling. We experience an entire immersion of ourselves in another's consciousness." 'So opens Campo's prize-winning poem, Morbidity and Mortality Rounds. It's an immersion into the maw of death. I've read textbooks and articles about facing death, but they don't capture the essence of the experience the way these few lines do. Every doctor and nurse will recognize "when I look at you, I see myself laid bare." It's the fierce existential tie between caregiver and patient. Campo's newest book of poetry, Alternative Medicine, will be published this fall. "A good poem engulfs us," says Campo, "takes hold of us physically. Its concision and urgency demand the participation of another in order to achieve completeness, to attain full meaning. In these ways, it's not so different from providing the best, most compassionate care to our patients."

"When we read or hear a poem that's truly effective," says [Rafael Campo], "we feel what the speaker is feeling. We experience an entire immersion of ourselves in another's consciousness." So opens Campo's prize-winning poem, "Morbidity and Mortality Rounds." It's an immersion into the maw of death. I've read textbooks and articles about facing death, but they don't capture the essence of the experience the way these few lines do. Every doctor and nurse will recognize "when I look at you, I see myself laid bare." It's the fierce existential tie between caregiver and patient. Campo's newest book of poetry, "Alternative Medicine," will be published this fall. "A good poem engulfs us," says Campo, "takes hold of us physically. Its concision and urgency demand the participation of another in order to achieve completeness, to attain full meaning. In these ways, it's not so different from providing the best, most compassionate care to our patients."