During a recent PW Podcast episode, we spoke with Ateev Mehrotra, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School; and Associate Professor of Medicine and Hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical...
Read MoreDuring a recent PW Podcast episode, we spoke with micro- and plastic surgeon Minas Chrysopoulo, MD, FACS, who is also the founder of Toliman Health and author of the PW feature article “Empathy, The Best Medicine?” Following is...
Read MoreA s a palliative care doctor in NYC during the beginning of the pandemic, my typical greeting response of “I’m fine” was speedily replaced with “I’m hanging in there.” It seemed slightly less false (because who’s really “fine”...
Read MoreMedicaid expansions are associated with increases in the percentage of people living with HIV who are aware of their status and with greater use of preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP), according to a study published in the American...
Read MoreThe percentage of Black people with late-stage HIV diagnosis varies according to population area of residence and is higher in rural than urban and metropolitan areas, according to research published in the CDC’s Morbidity and...
Read MoreD espite Medicare’s mandate that Part D insurance plans cover antiretroviral therapies (ART) and preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP), high drug prices mean that patients face out-of-pocket costs of $3,000 to $4,000 annually under a...
Read MoreA patient made a completely baseless complaint about me to the state medical board. The complaint was rapidly dismissed by the board after it requested and reviewed the relevant parts of her records. But the patient told many...
Read MoreI take ER calls as a plastic surgeon. The ER doctor performs the primary repair on cases for which they determine don’t warrant calling me and tells the patients to see me for follow-up. If the patient never calls, am I liable...
Read MoreO ver the course of my 45 or so years in the business, I have noticed that many patient charts contain errors. I’ve never stopped to count them, but some investigators at five leading academic centers recently did. Of 22,889...
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The following was originally posted on February 6 by Kelly Cawcutt, MD, to her personal blog at...
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