Don’t Be This Guy by Pat Conrad MD
Thank you, Establishment Family Medicine, for once again making these posts so easy to write. I realize readers expect, nay,
Continue readingEntertaining, Educating, and Criticizing Our Broken Healthcare System for 22 Years
Thank you, Establishment Family Medicine, for once again making these posts so easy to write. I realize readers expect, nay,
Continue readingWell, the American Academy of Family Physicians has finally had enough. They are ready to fight. Who do they want to
Continue readingFrom 2001 to 2012 I edited and wrote (with help) the Placebo Journal. It was the only medical journal that
Continue reading“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where
Continue readingMedscape put out a bogus article about board recertification and tried to pass it off as a quality study. The
Continue readingI get a lot of medically related material sent my way but it was a down week so I happened
Continue readingThe first week of 2018, and I’m already weary of the same old misinformed, deceitful “journalist” claims about the medical
Continue readingBarry Sherman, 75, the founder and chairman of the generic drug maker Apotex, and his wife, 70, were found strangled
Continue readingI have mentioned before how the AMA and the AAFP have suddenly jumped in on the “physician burnout” bandwagon. Well,
Continue readingLet Dr. Jerry Maguire push you over the edge. [WARNING: EXPLICIT LANGUAGE at end of this clip. May or may
Continue reading“Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at something that doesn’t really matter.” D.L. Moody (Click
Continue readingThe NY Times exposed something called “admission restrictions” at the VA and it’s not pretty. Why did this happen? Quality
Continue readingThis comes from an article in Modern Healthcare: The shift to value-based payment stalled in 2017 largely because of decisions
Continue readingWe at Authentic Medicine wish you the best of health and success for 2018! There are a lot of things
Continue readingThere are still rumblings up north about the wait times for patients. The hashtag in this blog’s title is the
Continue readingDon’t ya hate when a patient or family member asks how long they have before the Big Departure? Yeah, me
Continue readingThis really is quite prophetic (or pathetic?) when you think about it. (Click here to sign up for your free bonus
Continue reading“We are the spark, that will light the fire that’ll burn the First Order down.” Poe Dameron from Star Wars:
Continue readingRecently on this site, we’ve gotten back into discussing the healthcare “team”, the fashionable term for non-physicians that is pushed
Continue readingThis came to me from a loyal reader of this blog: Not a primary care doc, so the details are
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