Archive for the ‘Family Practice’ Category
Empathy and the physician- patient relationship
Posted by: admin on: August 2, 2011
Is anyone else tired of hearing about how important empathy is in the physician-patient relationship? Every other day it seems a new study is talking about the therapeutic value of empathy. Data links physician empathy with improved patient outcomes, increased satisfaction, and better patient experiences. A recent study released in Academic Medicine reported that “patients […]
Primary doctors transform offices into patient-centered ‘medical homes’.
Posted by: admin on: August 1, 2011
The concept of establishing “medical homes” emerged in the health-care reform debate as a way to improve health-care quality and efficiency and cut costs. The patient-centered medical home tends to the health of the whole person, involving a team that’s responsible for the patient’s care. That includes coordinated, integrated care among primary care, specialists […]
Primary care needs to be valued first before it can be saved
Posted by: admin on: July 21, 2011
The insurance intermediaries, who never actually see a patient or deliver any care, haven’t got a clue how this whole health thing works. They are happy with mediocre doctors that cut time and care. Those doctors (and physical therapists) run mills, but the insurance companies are happy with them. Quality and quantity of time are […]
Many doctors order tests rather than do a history and physical
Posted by: admin on: July 20, 2011
Take a good history, do a good exam. Rather than doing a careful history and physical, many physicians resort to order expensive tests based on a complaint rather than a full history. Physicians almost unanimously believe that other physicians do this and some will admit that they are guilty also. Our predecessors were able to […]
Smart patients need to establish a relationship with a primary care doctor
Posted by: admin on: July 20, 2011
Good primary care physicians are becoming harder and harder to find. A year from now we’ll find it almost impossible to find primary care doctors who are willing to take on new patients – at least any primary care doctor worth seeing won’t be doing so. Smart patients and their advocates know that today is […]
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