Another year, another legislative attempt to grant nurse practitioners the right to practice independently in Florida.  According to a report on a local NPR station this morning, Representative Cary Pigman’s fourteenth attempt to bypass a patient’s right to be treated...

https://www.medicaleconomics.com/news/5-elements-physician-self-care

Studies show that medical students have a precipitous drop in empathy levels within just months of starting their third-year clinical rotations. While there are a variety of proposed explanations for t...

Published by Medical Economics

https://www.medicaleconomics.com/news/always-running-late-simple-tip-will-change-your-life

In my previous practice, I routinely ran an hour or more behind schedule.   It seemed like no matter how carefully I tried to schedule patients and m...

Change may be necessary to keep patients safe

Published at MedPage Today

https://www.medpagetoday.com/nursing/nursing/82253

Family physician Amy Townsend, MD, first learned of Optimum Family Wellness in January of 2017 when a friend of hers, a physically fit man in his 40...

Published on Fee.org

In my medical training, a fellow physician tried to convince me that my liberal leanings on health care were misguided. While I firmly believed that the government had an important role in providing access to medical care—particularly to the underse...

Published on KevinMD - link here.  

On July 8, 2019, the American Academy of Emergency Medicine wrote a letter to the American Medical Association, asking the organization to create a public campaign to support physician-led care.

Noting concerns over the recen...

Published at Medical Economics https://www.medicaleconomics.com/med-ec-blog/benefits-house-medication-dispensing

Ever-rising drug costs are a huge problem for many Americans and a major reason for patient nonadherence to treatment recommendations.  

In-house medicat...

The April 18, 2019 CNN headline was a prime example of clickbait: “Feds charge doctors in 8 states in opioid bust, including ‘Rock Doc’ accused of trading pills for sex.”

The only problem with this headline? Of the 60 individuals charged, half were not physicians. More...

Originally published in Medical Economics 

https://www.medicaleconomics.com/med-ec-blog/physicians-and-patients-working-together-can-make-difference

In our increasingly corporate healthcare system, physicians are becoming disillusioned with the practice of medicine. Many...

I was recently quoted in an article for medical economics:  What's ruining medicine for physicians: Replacing primary care physicians with NPs/PAs.

Here's what the article says, and what they got right, and what needs a bit of clarification.

“One of the biggest concerns...