Conference Highlights: APA 2018
Predicting Death by Suicide Repetition With existing data indicating that suicide attempt...
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Psychiatry
MACRA: Proceed With Confidence at the Point of Care
We’ve been living in a MACRA world for some time now, and yet most physicians still aren’t...
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Creating Efficiency in the Patient Journey
The transformation to value-based care has placed tremendous focus on delivery of care as it...
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Expert-Based Opinions: A Supplement to, Not a Replacement for, Evidence-Based Content
Nationally recognized and highly regarded health systems have a variety of ways to expand the...
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Information Rx: The Missing Piece of Quality Care
The vast majority of healthcare takes place outside of a physician’s office. Consumers often care...
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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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Three Effective Ways to Pick Quality Improvement Targets
My first exposure to Lean as a quality improvement (QI) approach was at a well-known automotive...
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Examining Dietary Supplement Use
According to data from the 2012 National Health Interview Survey, approximately 18% of American...
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Three Ineffective Institutional Approaches to Quality Improvement in Healthcare
In 2012, there were estimates of waste in US healthcare amounting to $750 billion per year, or...
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Continuing Life Sustaining Therapy in the Face of Futility
One of the most difficult challenges physicians encounter is assisting terminally ill patients who...
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Changing Behaviors in HIV-Infected Smokers
Data indicate that people living with HIV smoke tobacco at a rate that is nearly three times that...
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#PWChat – Why Doctors Are Losing the Public’s Trust
Join us Wednesday, December 13 at 3:00pm ET for PART II of our live, interactive tweetchat with...
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#PWChat Recap – Ketamine for Depression: Exciting but Controversial
Physician’s Weekly continued its #PWChat series on Thursday, Nov. 16, with Steven P. Levine,...
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Hospitals, Third Parties, and Physicians: Opposing Roles in Containing Healthcare Costs
Patients do not have carte blanche when it comes to decisions about their medical care. The type...
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#PWChat – Ketamine for Depression: Exciting but Controversial
Join us Thursday, November 16 at 9:00pm ET for a live, interactive tweetchat with Steven P....
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PWChat: How Mindset Affects Physical Health
Join us Wednesday, October 11 at 3:00pm ET for a live, interactive tweetchat with Barbara Cox,...
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#PWChat – Pseudoscience in Medicine PART 2: Steering Patients Toward Reliable References
Join us Wednesday, October 25 at 3:00pm ET for a live, interactive tweetchat with Linda Girgis,...
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#PWChat Recap – Pseudoscience in Medicine: Steering Patients Toward Reliable References
Dr. Linda Girgis, MD, FAAFP joined Physician’s Weekly to co-host another installment in our...
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#PWChat – Exercise as Medicine: Helping Patients Cut Through all the Noise
Join us Wednesday, October 4 at 3:00pm ET for a live, interactive tweetchat with Greg Wells, PhD,...
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#PWChat – Pseudoscience in Medicine: Steering Patients Toward Reliable References
Join us Tuesday, September 26 at 3:00pm ET for a live, interactive tweetchat with Linda Girgis,...
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