Archive for the ‘Family Practice’ Category
Could alternative medicine practitioners take the lead in health policy?
Posted by: admin on: July 12, 2011
Recently, a medical student attended a conference on integrative medicine. It was a conference a lot: about Chinese therapies used for cancer, about osteopathic manipulation, and about the growing community of doctors that respect the value of complimentary medicine practices and are working to integrate them into their general practice. She left with a sense […]
Asking a doctor for their opinion on another physician
Posted by: admin on: July 11, 2011
Incompetence in a physician is a scary thing! Doctors deal with problems of life and death and try to heal you with dangerous tools. But how do you know who’s on their game and who’s falling down on the job? It’s tricky for patients because they often don’t know enough about medicine practice to judge […]
Too Few Doctors Tell Patients they’re Overweight
Posted by: admin on: July 8, 2011
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity Many people who are overweight and obese either don’t realize it or are in denial — and too few doctors are setting them straight, according to a new study in the Archives of Internal Medicine. Researchers analyzed data on roughly 5,500 people who took part in government health surveys between 2005 and 2008. […]
Guiding patients online is a new physician responsibility for the digital age.
Posted by: admin on: July 7, 2011
If you woke up one day with an earache, you could call your doctor’s office for help. Or you could do what the majority of patients do today and Google what to do first. Type “earache” into your Web browser and the results can vary wildly. Search engines can return results saying that an earache can […]
Growth of retainer medicine follows simple economic principles
Posted by: admin on: July 6, 2011
Recently there were vigorous discussions about retainer medicine. In both discussions the “opposition” opined that every time an internist (or more recently family physician) leaves the CMS (Center for Medicare and Medicaid services)/private insurance grid patient access decreases. They imply that outpatient generalists have a moral responsibility to continue seeing too many patients and spending inadequate time […]
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