Injudicious use of antibiotics contributes to increased bacterial resistance, and patient
expectations encourage physicians to overuse antibiotics. The authors evaluated the level of ill …

Health care reform, the subject of intense national debate and discussion during the
presidential campaign and the first year of the Obama presidency, is now reality. The Patient …

Academic Medicine, Vol. 88, No. 9/September 2013 1201 needed to make the process
better. For example, an incentive program could begin with a modest amount of Medicare …

Adam Possner MD (Figure 1) says that his life path can be categorized neatly in three different
ways: the personal, the medical, and the poetic. Dr Possner was born in Florida, grew up …

… Adam Possner, MD 1 … Corresponding Author: Adam Possner, MD (apossner@mfa.gwu.edu). …
Possner A. Mutually Assured Destruction. JAMA. …

… Possner is assistant professor, General Internal Medicine, Medical Faculty Associates,
George Washington University, Washington, DC; e-mail: [email protected]. … Possner is …

Academic Medicine, Vol. 89, No. 11/November 2014 1439 training. While professional
organizations and scholars have laid the groundwork for change, it was frontline experience …

… Adam Possner … Correspondence may be sent to Adam Possner, MD, General Internal
Medicine, Medical Faculty Associates, George Washington University, 2150 Pennsylvania …

About two weeks prior, after having been unemployed for months, Ms L—a relatively healthy,
longstanding patient of mine in her mid-40s—had started a job as a bus driver for special-…

In this business blood on the hands as long as they’re gloved isn’ta bad thing. In fact, it’s
expected—part of the job. I made a mistake. I let his unassisted breathing compensate for his …