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Read this article and see how they recommend isolating your high-risk patients (aka most sick) and spending most of your time
Continue readingEntertaining, Educating, and Criticizing Our Broken Healthcare System for 22 Years
Read this article and see how they recommend isolating your high-risk patients (aka most sick) and spending most of your time
Continue readingI got fooled again! The title of the piece is called “EHRs are ‘a source of stress for physicians,’ AMA
Continue readingOne of the many reasons I left outpatient medicine, except for a volunteer clinic where I get to spend as
Continue readingThis article in The Daily Beast was really well done. It explains the utter uselessness in patient satisfaction surveys. Here
Continue readingOur government tends be pretty idealistic, too. In 2001, Institute of Medicine released a report called Crossing the Chasm. The paper’s
Continue readingAn online risk calculator created by the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology so greatly overestimates risk
Continue readingFor a family of four on food stamps (SNAP), which means they make less than $30,624 gross/year, their monthly allotment
Continue readingWhen was the last time you made a decision about where to eat based on a personal or electronic customer
Continue readingFor a laugh and/or hangover cure, I was on the couch this evening perusing the latest “Family Practice News” and
Continue readingThe journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research concludes that teens and young adults with strong verbal skills are also more likely to
Continue readingIn a new study in the BMJ Quality & Safety, researchers analyzed diagnosis-related claims from a national data bank from 1986 to
Continue readingWe have done blogs on Dr. Oz before. And yes, I have called him a big douche. Still believe
Continue readingHow did pain management and pain medicine abuse all start? People forget that it always wasn’t this way. Pain wasn’t
Continue readingThe following is from A Dr. Sidney Goldstein. It was in the Family Practice News though it is syndicated in
Continue readingSometimes I am amazed at the ignorance of the media. The NYT just put out an article entitled “Doctor shortage
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