No one has a better view of the pandemic's effects on the American public, from the puzzling to the tragic, than physicians.
Some patients, stuffed on a diet of disinformation, have targeted us as agents of fantastical conspiracies. Other patients, who haven't visited a doctor in years, become bewildered when asked to do something as simple as disrobing for an exam
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Should Doctors Keep a Foot in the Exam Room When They Enter the Boardroom?
John Whyte, MD, MPH; Geeta Nayyar, MD, MBA
DisclosuresMay 19, 2022
No one has a better view of the pandemic's effects on the American public, from the puzzling to the tragic, than physicians.
Some patients, stuffed on a diet of disinformation, have targeted us as agents of fantastical conspiracies. Other patients, who haven't visited a doctor in years, become bewildered when asked to do something as simple as disrobing for an exam
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John Whyte, MD, MPH
Internist; Chief Medical Officer, WebMD
Geeta Nayyar, MD, MBA
Chief Medical Officer, Salesforce