Why Patient Advocacy Is Important Without Being Hated
“I don’t know.” It’s an answer patients hate to hear. It is also an answer we doctors hate to...
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Author: Linda Girgis
New Survey: Doctors Share State of Healthcare in 2018
Over 2017, many legislative efforts were put forth by lawmakers to heal the ailing US healthcare...
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Calling Responsible Parties to Task for their Role in the Opioid Epidemic
In October 2017, President Donald Trump announced that the opioid epidemic is a public health...
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Why Doctors Are Losing the Public’s Trust
We discussed this blog post, and more, with Dr. Girgis in a live #PWChat TweetChat at 3:00pm (ET)...
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Calling on the Surgeon General: What Americans Need Most
By Linda Girgis, MD, FAAFP In the first week of August 2017, Dr. Jerome Adams was confirmed as...
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What are the Implications of the 21st Century Cures Act?
On December 13, 2016, President Obama signed the 21st Century Cures Act into law. While the...
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Bridging the Doctor Patient Divide
Patients are becoming increasingly disgruntled in our current healthcare system. Doctors and other...
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When the Patient Visit Gets Dangerous
Recently, a man with severe autism was in the office for follow-up. While speaking with him and...
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The Mission inside Each of Us
A few weeks ago, I spent a week working with the Floating Doctors in their medical mission in...
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What Role Does Spirituality Play in Medicine?
While training to be doctors, most of us learned that professional ethics dictate that we not...
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We Need to Stand United on Herd Immunity
We should hold those responsible for spreading false medical information accountable for their...
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Don’t Build That Wall, At Least Not in Medicine
While certain politicians pontificate about building a wall to separate the US from surrounding...
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The Doctor in the Mirror
“Many people see doctors and see arrogance or greed. Others see caring souls. The doctor in...
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Child Abuse Awareness Month: Fighting the Monster Under the Bed
Child Abuse Awareness month is here as it is every April in the US. For most people, the surreal...
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Healthcare CSI: Our Patients the Victims
The crime scene is the US healthcare system scattered in clinics, private practices, and hospitals...
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Fighting the Dr. Oz World
As 2016 rolls out, many resolutions spring to life and others already lay broken underfoot....
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Turning Our Residents into Minions
As doctors, we can all remember the attending doctors who struck fear in our hearts or the senior...
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Choose to Make a Difference
The universe we live in is billions of years old. Our lives here are a blink of an eye in...
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Ending Futile Care: When it is Time to Say Goodbye
We live in society where there is a little white pill to cure every ill. There are pills to make...
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Men Get Breast Cancer Too
The pink ribbon symbolizing breast cancer appears everywhere. And that is because October is...
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