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This website is devoted to learning and thinking by John Reginald Dykers Jr., M.D., who practices medicine in Chatham County, North Carolina, grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, (where he played football and tennis at the Bolles School), graduated from Davidson College and then from the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine.

After decades of practicing medicine, he's learned a few things. This site's main feature (below) is his blog. There, John tells you exactly what he thinks-- no punches pulled. Yet he's willing to change his mind if you have the better argument.

As he says, among his many aphorisms, "Learning something new usually requires recognizing that what you used to know ain't so!"


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Patients and physicians are being cheated
By Reese Dykers | April 12, 2009 at 09:12 AM EDT | No Comments

The fantastic emotional and intellectual adventure of practicing medicine is being robbed of its value by systems of risk-management and bureaucracy and payment. This essay is under construction. More coming shortly....

Thinking about the planet -- R/P x T=Q
By Reese Dykers | April 10, 2009 at 09:24 PM EDT | No Comments

Life is so short and time is so precious. No matter what you do, you are doomed to wish some of it had been spent differently. But don't worry about wasting time. It is so precious that no matter what you do, you will have "wasted" time!

All commentary here, unless otherwise noted, is original work by Dr. John R. Dykers Jr.
All Rights Reserved. 2009.


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