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Vocations in the medical and health care fields have saturated my work life for a period that spans three decades. After being a medic with the Navy and Marine Corps, I worked as a Physician Assistant for several years. For the next decade, I was involved with sales and marketing with three of... More
  • The Shrink's Bible: The DSM

     

    The Diagnostics and Statistical Manual, the Shrink's bible, has been around for over 50 years, and now possibly contains nearly 300 mental disorders. As a dictionary of suspected mental illnesses, many redefined diagnoses are added to this manual with each edition. On occasion, a mental disorder is deleted from the DSM, such as homosexuality in the early 1970s. Its purpose, this manual, is to assist mental health professionals to diagnose and classify mental disorders.
     
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  • Urgent Care Light Medical Clinics

     

    One possible solution to the occasional lack of access to, or shortage of, primary care doctors is what are known as retail care clinics, or convenience care clinics. The popularity of these clinics continues to increase progressively for a variety of reasons. 
     
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  • A Pharmaceutical Representative's Manifesto

     

    The word, ‘Manifesto’ is one of Latin origin, and means ‘to make public’. It’s an open statement of standards related to good behavior based on principles.
    What will follow are not in any way intended to be absolute directives or rules you should adopt in order to be successful. Nor am I, as a veteran ex-big pharmaceutical representative, suggesting the contents are an outline of what is an ideal pharmaceutical representative. 
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