On the heels of the painfully sad essay, “What I’ve Learned from Saving Physicians from Suicide,” I just read David Bornstein’s essay, “Medicine’s Search for Meaning” and I am heartbroken. I am heartbroken for physicians and health care providers and I am heartbroken for patients. As we all know, most physicians would not encourage their […]

We all know that that once it’s out there, it’s out there forever. Of course, we’re talking about the internet and social media. Just as businesses have been looking into their prospective employees’ backgrounds by searching the internet for a long time now, medicine is starting to do the same. No longer are employers just […]

Many of you who follow this blog know that I have written extensively about my own, personal experiences with our medically complex son. (Some of the posts, for background pertaining to this post are HERE, HERE, and HERE.) That said, it was so wonderful to read the NY Times article entitled, “Haunted by a Child’s […]

Tuesday was a big day in health care. As you know, the Affordable Care Act’s Health Insurance Marketplace opened. And, today, we’d like to give you two brief updates. First, due to the high volume of requests, many of the websites have been slow and some have also experienced glitches. Please encourage your patients to […]

The Affordable Care Act Health Insurance Marketplace opens today, October 1, and undoubtedly you will be facing questions from your patients about it and how they can get coverage. The American Medical Association has put together several brief, yet very informative, documents for patients and physicians. Here is a link to the new Health Insurance […]

Money is a great way to incentivize people –but should it be used in medicine to achieve better outcomes with patients? Is this a smart idea that has been successfully used in other areas of the traditional business world and should it be translated to the medical world? Or, is there something slightly off-putting about […]

With last year’s election firmly cementing the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (“ObamaCare”) into the American healthcare system, physicians wanting to maintain practice independence are looking for different economic models that would offer them the necessary revenue stream without joining a large healthcare system to ensure adequate patient flow. I had the opportunity to […]

As we promised with our first Google Glass article, we are continuing to write about this fascinating, new technology, that also has us a bit weary. A recent article of interest on CNet.com, about Stanford Physician, Dr. Abraham Verghese, discusses his use of Google Glass with the Stanford Medicine 25 initiative. The program includes hands-on […]