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How to Be Your Own Healthcare Advocate
The numbers are staggering. In the US, between 250,000-440,000 people per year die as a result of medical errors, and they are the third...
Aug 1, 2020
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I Had a Dream
While it is nearing the 4th of July, with red, white and blue stars and stripes waving in the breeze, my I Had a Dream story is nothing...
Jul 3, 2020
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The Doctor Who Quit
It was an unusual and unexpected hospitalization at Froedtert, affiliated with the Medical College of Wisconsin, in Milwaukee, so maybe I...
Jun 27, 2020
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Why Write a Book & Other Burning Questions
Since the debut of my author website, DrJillMurphy.com, I have been asked a few popular questions about me, my practice in the medical...
Jun 21, 2020
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Top 10 Attributes of Patient-Centered Healthcare Providers (aka,Superstar Clinicians)
The moment is indelibly imprinted on my brain, the setting an in-patient hospital room. I had spent the night in the Houston hospital...
Jun 13, 2020
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When to Get a Second Opinion
This is a question patients ask me so often, I really don’t bat an eyelash at the query. Whether it’s a surgical consult, or a different...
Jun 10, 2020
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Perspective
April 23, 2020: Everyone has their own feelings- for sure. And certainly your past experiences help shape how you feel about the present,...
Jun 6, 2020
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The Patient Bill of Rights
Twenty basic rights every patient deserves to receive in every clinician interaction in every US healthcare setting. 1. The right to...
Jun 2, 2020
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When Physicians Inflict Trauma on Patients (Everyone Loses)
In the past seven years, I’ve had a lot of medical experiences. But every now and then, a certain conversation or episode of care becomes...
May 30, 2020
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Book Excerpt from Doctor Heal Thyself: American Dreaming
This is the story of a regular gal, who just happened to be a doctor of physical therapy, for whom life got rather tricky at an...
May 25, 2020
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