Given the political difficulty in fixing the perpetual 21% Medicare pay cut, maybe a few million angry voters will help things.
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Repeated testing of physicians seems like a good idea. To bad that there is no proof that this makes any difference in the delivery or quality of patient care.
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Sudden psychiatric symptoms following a brief febrile illness and headache in a young woman without any prior psychiatric disorder history.
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Everything you always wanted to know about fatty acids, fish oil, and heart disease risk, but were afraid to ask.
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2% of 1,000 Twitter messages regarding antibiotic use contained incorrect information.
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With all the talk about preventive care and coordination of care during the current health reform efforts, you would think that this would have been one of the primary measures in the recent legislation. You'd be wrong.
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Eating fat does not make you fat. It's far more complicated than that. Fortunately, the solution is very simple.
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A new service provides patients with 24/7 access to medical consultation . . and some don't like it.
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Many liberals have a knee-jerk reaction conniption fit when asked about concierge medicine: "Only the rich will be able to afford concierge care" and the end result will be that "fewer doctors will see fewer patients".
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How can patients and primary care providers escape from a system that is way underfunded and way overloaded? It requires a paradigm shift in the way we reimburse primary care physicians. Hint. Gym memberships are way ahead of the curve here.
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