The Treating Physician – Page 12 – return health care decisions to physicians and their patients

big business medicine/health care reform/patient-centered care/physician-patient relationship/reducing health care costs/simplistic solutions to complex problems/the sound-bite mindset

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Posted on July 22, 2012 6:30 pm by dhaugen / 0 Comment

The discussion of the problems with our health care system and reform sometimes brings out the best in us and sometimes the worst. ProPublica is a web site which provides “an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest” according to its owners. The site is run by journalists with very respectable…

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big business medicine/patient-centered care/physician-patient relationship

Physician Collegiality

Posted on July 15, 2012 4:54 pm by dhaugen / 0 Comment

Over the past year, retired physician, Ted Bacharach, has written several posts to Authentic Medicine about the loss of one of the very professional attributes of physicians, collegiality. I was hoping to see some responses to his post. There were none. On the surface, this may look like misplaced nostalgic longing for some antiquated old…

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Patient-Centered Care as a Means to Reduce Health Care Cost

Posted on July 14, 2012 7:21 pm by dhaugen / 0 Comment

A much-talked about way to reduce our health care costs is a new emphasis on paying physicians for outcomes. This notion quickly segues into the implication that physicians do not communicate with their patients about treatment options, and if physicians talked to their patients, the patients would give the physicians better grades in patient satisfaction….

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health care reform/overuse of technology/physician-patient relationship

Computers and Language Translation

Posted on May 20, 2012 11:07 am by dhaugen / 0 Comment

Long before the health care industry became so enamored of electronic medical records, researchers were struggling with the problems of how to enable a computer to translate languages. Over the years, computer translations have become much better than they were, and now anyone can generate a web page in a different language quite easily. The…

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WordPress Learning Curve

Posted on May 19, 2012 7:29 pm by dhaugen / 0 Comment

O.K. O.K. I haven’t posted for a while. I haven’t lost interest in health care reform, health care issues, or regulation of health care by experts who don’t seem to have spent much time in the trenches, but I gotta tell ya, I haven’t found WordPress to be nearly as user friendly as it’s cracked…

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