The only religion that my patients see me practice is medicine Dr. Jennifer Gunter’s article on the KevinMD website does a very good job of clarifying some of the boundary issues physicians face when it comes to various religious beliefs. The notion that physicians should be restrained from discussing the full array of treatment…
I’ve written before on the nonsense of trying to make a recipe card define quality heath care for patients, emphasizing that expert knowledge is not rule-based. The numerous attempts by various oversight entities to measure “quality” in medical care always involve taking patient symptoms out of context and counting them. Whether it’s the much-touted “standard…
Douglas Farrago on his blog Authentic Medicine often posts letters he receives from other physicians. A letter from Dr. Scott Miller tells a fascinating story about the kind of boxed-in kind of thinking physicians are subjected to even by the medical boards charged with being able to ascertain whether physicians present a danger to patients….
See on Scoop.it – the treating physician The Institue of Medicine calculates that the U.S. system wastes $750 billion annually, but the practice of medicine and approaches to reform are uniquely immune to standard economic analyses. See on www.theatlantic.com
The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to walk away from the table without a deal. Harvey Mackay in Swim With The Sharks… Having just written a lengthy post on the draconian reimbursement policies of insurance companies and Medicaid and Medicare, I couldn’t resist adding this assist from Authentic Medicine.
