Doctor Curmudgeon®: Coming soon! Your government presents…
The United States Government Healthcare Appointment line! SCENE; JUST A SHORT TIME INTO THE FUTURE...
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Business of Medicine
Examining AIDS-Defining Opportunistic Infections
Studies have shown that AIDS-defining opportunistic infection (AIDS-OIs) were a leading cause of...
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Conference Highlights: Hospital Medicine 2016
Analyzing Malpractice Claims Against Hospitalists The Particulars: Hospitalists often have...
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Medical Malpractice: Documenting 101
“Document, document, document” is the usual refrain. Actually, documentation is a perfect example...
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Fad Medicine: What Have Your Patients Tried?
Fads come and go in medicine, like everything else. But unlike the mainstream trends, medical fads...
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Doctor Curmudgeon®: Patient Entitlementiasis with Insurance
By Doctor Curmudgeon® This week, the old Curmudgeon had a mental bloppo. I seemed to remember that...
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First Black Female Physician in the US honored by alma mater
As the Civil War raged in 1864, Rebecca Lee marked her place in history when she became the first...
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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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FIRST Trial: Patients Not Harmed When Surgical Residents Work Flexible Hours
Patients had no greater risk of death or serious morbidity when cared for by surgical residents...
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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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Do Video Recordings Help or Hurt Doctors?
A recent event at the trauma center where I work raised some serious questions regarding the use...
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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...
Read MorePopulation Health Management: Taking Control of Your Entire Patient Community
Today much of the spotlight in the healthcare community is on managing people with chronic diseases. That makes sense, since many of these individuals are among the 20% of patients who account for about 80% of healthcare costs...
Read MoreHow to Use Technology to Activate and Engage Patients at Different Points of Care
Physicians across the country are facing pressure to become more proactive about delivering care to patients. The old way of reacting to a patient’s current illness, treating it and sending them on their way no longer works in...
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Avoiding Heart Disease-Related Malpractice Risks
The Doctors Company recently completed an analysis of nearly 430 closed medical malpractice claims...
Read MoreWill Medicare’s Published Physician Quality Data Push Your Patients Away?
By: Theresa Hush, CEO & Co-Founder, ICLOPS Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) won’t be the only group scrutinizing your quality and cost data anymore. As the next step toward value-based healthcare, Medicare...
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Is there a Nursing Shortage or Not?
Google “nursing shortage,” and the number of hits describing the current shortage will convince...
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The Demand for Emergency Care
The CDC’s most recent National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey revealed that EDs in the...
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Night Shift Work Affects Surgeon’s Biological Rhythm
Dutch research indicates that working night shifts appears to affect surgeon’s circadian rhythm....
Read MoreED Crowding & Quality of Care
Results of a systematic review indicate that three simple crowding measures appear to be linked to quality of care. Of 15 crowding measures with links to quality of care, the three most frequently linked were: Number of patients...
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