At a recent functional medicine conference I attended, CBD vendors were in attendance bringing the products to the healthcare providers. You want our support? Ok… but what the heck do your labels mean?? 3000, 500, 300? I’m not talking about the topicals, I’m taking about the products marketed as CBD to be taken orally. I…
“New Jersey Anesthesiologist Revives Patient after 10-hour Surgery without Complications” is a headline you’ll never read. “New Jersey Anesthesiologist Receives Rave Reviews from Patients Who are Pain Free” is a story no one cares about. But “Doctor charged in ‘ski rage’ attack on 12-year-old, cops say” or “New Jersey judge hands down strange Valentine’s Day sentence to doctor…
Don’t get me wrong, self-care IS very important. But no amount of mindfulness, yoga, healthy eating, stress management, life coaching you do (and this is coming from a professional life coach), it will not change burnout and suicide rates long-term unless there are fundamental changes in the culture of healthcare and the systems we, as…
The title of the Wall Street Journal article caught my eye. It was a month-old edition that I didn’t get to read due to my vacation. As I was tossing the paper out something stopped me from throwing it in the bin. It was the title: “Stop Feeding College Bureaucratic Bloat“. The following paragraph says…
When people pretend they are smart they come up with things like this: A survey of 934 physicians with the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF) found they received an average of 243 electronic “in-basket” messages per week regarding their patients. Of those, nearly half were automatically generated by PAMF’s EHR. According to the survey results, published…
The above comes from a DO publication. Here is what they said: In recent years, many different types of non-physician clinicians have sought to practice medicine independently of physicians, despite the fact that doctor training requirements are significantly more rigorous and comprehensive. So far this year, the AOA helped defeat scope-of-practice expansion efforts in Indiana, Hawaii and New Hampshire.…
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This is a tough issue to write about. Are hospitals allowed to sue patients to get paid? These are big bills people are walking on and the hospitals want their cash. Wouldn’t any other business be allowed to do sue? If you get the WSJ then you can read the entire article here. Here are…
“The flames kindled on the 4th of July 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.” Thomas Jefferson Happy 4th of July Everyone! No country is perfect but be proud of our…
You are not going to believe this but if you require kids to get vaccines then more of them will get vaccinated. Here is a mind-blowing study: The percentage of kindergartners without up-to-date vaccinations dropped in California following the tightening of requirements in the state, according to a new study, whose findings suggest stricter vaccine…