Business of Medicine
Feature
Presence of community health workers linked with better results in patients with T2D
Blood sugar levels decreased and more patients moved toward self-care when people who came from the patients’ community joined a primary care...
Commentary
How to make the best of your worst reviews
In primary care, the patient-physician relationship is so central to what we do that ignoring your “likability” has the potential to threaten your...
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Community-level actions could mitigate maternal mortality
National Institute for Health Care Management panelists advocate partnerships between hospitals and community centers to ease barriers to access...
The Optimized Doctor
Dignity
We've driven medicine to the efficient and left little of the dignity it seems.
Feature
House passes prior authorization bill, Senate path unclear
A $16 billion estimate for a bill meant to speed Medicare Advantage prior authorizations may complicate efforts to pass the measure. But the...
From the Journals
Physicians can’t be bystanders in ‘silent scourge’ of medical bullying
“Through bullying, we are losing voices in medicine just at that point in time where we are trying to diversify the workforce to improve...
Managing Your Practice
EHR: A progress report
EHRs will inevitably be a part of most of our lives. And for those who take the time to do it right, it will ultimately be an improvement.
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Anesthesiologist arrested, implicated in death of colleague
Physician accused of injecting nerve-blocking and bronchodilating drugs into patient IV bags.
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Medical coding creates barriers to care for transgender patients
The ICD-10 list of diagnoses haven’t caught up to the needs of transgender people.
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Newborns get routine heel blood tests, but should states keep those samples?
Some states allow the blood spots to be used in research studies, sometimes by third parties for a fee, or provided to law enforcement personnel...
Feature
Flashy, blingy doc sabotages his own malpractice trial in rural farm town
“When it comes to damages in a case, you don’t want to be sending the message that supports what somebody’s bias may already be telling them about...