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…
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….
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…
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…
Note: Even back in 1992 when we wrote Modern Medicine, the focus of patient care had become the patient’s chart, not the patient. Because there were no longer enough ward clerks to do the paperwork on a hospital floor, the nurses had to do it—at the expense of attending to patients. Can’t say whether…
