HOWARD GOLDSTEIN
ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 1/14/2024
The meeting
Dr. Howard Goldstein reflects on how strange it is to refer to yourself as a doctor in the past tense upon retirement. - 11/29/2023
Two red lines: A retrospective
After managing to avoid COVID-19 for 1,313 days, I finally saw those two little red lines on a test. Looking back at the journey we’ve been on with the pandemic, I think you might be surprised how much you’ve already forgotten. - 9/27/2023
Finding humanity: The lost heart of medicine
Dr. Howard Goldstein challenged doctors in his Virtual Retirement Lounge group to come up with keynote addresses to the class of 2023. - 8/21/2023
The ‘tipping’ point
What if doctors were allowed tipping terminals in their offices? A chalkboard menu of available goods and services could be wall-mounted in the waiting room, prices listed in bold cursive and brilliant colour, modified with every PSA negotiation. - 7/9/2023
The perils of patient portals: lost in translation
My doctor began by stating the purpose of the call—to review my MRI report. I advised that I'd already read the report in MyChart and had a copy in front of me for our collective review. “That shouldn’t happen,” he said. I couldn’t have agreed more. - 5/30/2023
Sorry I can’t take your call, please leave a message
Of cottages, pancreatic cancer and a strange little "phone booth" in the Ontario wilderness. - 5/28/2023
In the afterglow
My barber of more than 40 years asked me whether I missed being a doctor. After a few years in retirement, only now do I feel the loss of what medical practice has meant to me for so long. - 3/7/2023
Three doctors in a waiting room having coffee
Three docs, three bagels, three stories of going from doctor to patient in one fell swoop. - 2/15/2023
Cousin Stan the 'detail man'
I spoke with my cousin, now 85, about his decades as a pharmaceutical sales rep—known in his day as a 'detail man'—and about how the industry is barely recognizable today. - 1/26/2023
Face-time vs. FaceTime
The pandemic left a major gap in the formative education of our medical students, relegating them to a virtual bedside. The core tenets of the classic physical exam: percussion, palpation, auscultation and even inspection were all casualties of virtual medicine.
