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Allan M. Block, MD

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Dealing with an anti-masker

Author:
Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: January 4, 2021

“If I’m going to try to help you get better, then you should be willing to wear a mask to help protect me, too.”

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Lost time amid COVID-19

Author:
Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: December 8, 2020

Hopefully, The Lost Year will gradually become a memory as life goes on and normalizes.

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Twenty years later, two gambles that paid off

Author:
Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: November 30, 2020

After 20 years of solo practice, I am still doing something that I found I loved in my first week of residency.

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Do general neurologists fall victim to a plethora of treatment options?

Author:
Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: November 19, 2020

Are a widening array of treatment options pushing MS into the realm of subspecialist care?

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Is the troll tracker crying wolf?

Author:
Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: October 28, 2020

It’s probably been over a year since a warning email from the PMP told me something I didn’t already know.

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An unplanned ‘vacation’

Author:
Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: October 12, 2020

I’m ready to go back to the regular world of practice. I just have to hope that the regular world is going to come back to me.

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A cure for dementia? Not so fast

Author:
Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: October 7, 2020

There are dangers in taking as definitive preliminary findings, or generalizing specific research findings.

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Preserving civility in trying times

Author:
Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: September 30, 2020

It’s nice to know many people out there still subscribe to civil ideas and polite behavior, even when the circumstances are difficult.

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Car is king, but commuting takes a back seat

Author:
Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: September 22, 2020

Perhaps the pandemic will also bring a lasting change in how and where many do their jobs.

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Opinion

Improving interprovider communication

Author:
Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: September 17, 2020

No amount of technological wizardry is going to make it easier to find meaning in a meaningless note, contact someone who isn’t listening, or hear...

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Opinion

There is no cure for gullibility

Author:
Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: August 31, 2020

In a world used to instant gratification, people need to realize that a cure for COVID-19 will never happen overnight.

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Opinion

Blogging? No thanks

Author:
Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: August 25, 2020

Compared with blogging, time spent seeing and treating patients is time better spent.

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Opinion

Taming a terrible illness

Author:
Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: August 10, 2020

Hopefully, like previously devastating illnesses, COVID-19 will be brought under control.

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Opinion

Why are we still talking about hydroxychloroquine?

Author:
Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: August 3, 2020

Continuing to give it to sick people, despite the growing evidence against it, violates the “do-no-harm” tenet of our field.

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Opinion

Repeat MRIs: Educating patients

Author:
Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: July 27, 2020

Generally one MRI is all that is needed, although there are exceptions.

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