Phillip Silverstein, MD, is a board certified internal medicine physician who has worked in emergency medicine for more than a decade. He’s a gifted communicator who believes that the study of the human body, what he calls the “innerworld,” is as infinitely complex and wondrous as the far reaches of outer space.
Phillip Silverstein, MD
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Monday, December 17, 2007
I remind myself frequently that change is good. This year the community hospital at which I practiced emergency medicine for more than a decade relocated. Patient volumes dropped dramatically. Ironically, in this world of physician shortages and long emergency department waits, I found myself working fewer shifts than I wanted.
But here’s the part where change is good. My wife and I started thinking about options. We thought about going to interesting locations where she could