Outside-the-Box Medical Practices
The American Medical Association and the Medical Group Management Association honored five medical practices for using outside-the-box thinking to help
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The American Medical Association and the Medical Group Management Association honored five medical practices for using outside-the-box thinking to help
Continue readingPhysician-owned hospitals were destroyed by the press for cherry picking healthier patients while supposedly leaving the sicker and poorer patients
Continue readingThere was a recent Facebook viral post that I had to just comment on. It was a testament to caring. Today’s
Continue readingEvery country with a military force prepares a set of coherent statements about doctrine to follow in war and peace. “Military
Continue reading“The ‘winning’ side would have paid you much better.” ~ Capt. Louis Renault In the beginning of October, a month
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Continue reading“Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds.” Robert
Continue readingIn the recent issue of Modern Healthcare there was an article called Hospitals still lead in healthcare job growth and it is
Continue readingI found this article called Doctors doubt quality metrics improve quality of care in a journal called Family Practice News. The title
Continue readingThe more I see of the Affordable Care Act, the more I hate it. It turns out that “dozens
Continue readingAaron Carroll is a pediatrician and wrote an article in the NY Times called Trapped in the System: A Sick Doctor’s
Continue reading“Really, I probably live in a world of 140 codes.” AAFP President Robert Wergin, M.D. explaining that patients will not
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Continue reading“When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.” Evelyn Waugh
Continue readingEveryone and their uncle is trying to capitalize on our broken healthcare system. They think they can fix it. Even
Continue readingI just found a huge steaming pile of made-up terms in this article called Avoiding the ER: ‘Care coordinators’ see increased role
Continue readingI saw this recent post on the AAFP website called AAFP Backs Senate Bill Supporting Direct Primary Care It says the AAFP is
Continue readingDid you know that “Multispecialty physician practices spent an average of $20,693 per full-time-equivalent doctor in 2014, a 12% increase
Continue readingThe VA – as currently conceived – should be torn down, blown up, done away with. A new study co-authored
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