Communication Etiquette in Medical Training
Patient-centered communication can impact several aspects of the patient-doctor relationship,...
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Patient Relations
Smartphones & Cancer Care
More clinicians are beginning to recognize the untapped potential of smartphones to assist them...
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Electronic Communication With Patients
Throughout healthcare, there has been a recent push for electronic communications to be used more...
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Shady History Hasn’t Hurt Cosmetic Surgeon’s Online Ratings
There seems to be no shortage of bad doctor stories going around these days. Just when you thought...
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Decision-Making Preferences After AMI
In recent years, experts have called for greater participation by patients in medical...
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Reality Check: Hospital Patient Safety Scores
Imagine you are sick and live in the upper Manhattan section of New York City. Your doctor tells...
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My Turning Point
As an incurable compulsive introspect, I tend to brood, ponder, contemplate, and (of course) muse...
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Even in Medicine, There’s an App for That
The launch of the iPhone and Android smartphone platforms spurred a boom in medical application...
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Practicing What We Preach?
It has been largely assumed that healthcare workers (HCWs) take better care of themselves than the...
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Putting Context in Medical Care
Effective care requires diagnosing and treating clinical conditions using evidence-based practices...
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Washington, We Have a Problem
People come to me for answers, and my profession pitches doctors as the ones with answers. We fix...
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Capitalizing on Social Media to Enhance Diabetes Care
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn have emerged as important online meeting places for...
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Phone Call Follow-Up and Smoking Cessation in the ED
Telephone follow-up after an ED visit is an important strategy for monitoring changes in health...
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Diabetes Side Effects: Breaking the Silence
Sexual and urologic complications among men and women with diabetes have historically received...
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Using Social Media in Oncology
The increasing popularity and use of social media in medicine offers great opportunities for...
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Can Financial Incentives for Patients Induce Weight Loss?
Several studies have suggested that financial incentives appear to help overweight and obese...
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A Day in the Life of a Patient: Why Can’t We Do Better?
Is there a patient who goes through a hospitalization who does not have stories to tell about the...
Read MoreTurning the Tables: Doctors Rate Patients
Some doctors, tired of often capricious, inaccurate, and statistically flawed ratings of their performance, have decided to fight back. “Pa-Rate,” is a new service that enables physicians and their office staffs as...
Read MoreA Follow-Up on Patient Follow-Up
My post entitled “Who is at fault if a patient doesn’t follow up?” from August was well received. There were many comments on Twitter. Here is some follow-up on following up. A surgeon saw a new patient with...
Read MoreWho’s At Fault If a Patient Doesn’t Follow Up?
In keeping with the mindset of most Americans today, the answer to the question posed in the title of this post is, “the doctor.” American Medical News reports that “Medical liability experts say missed...
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