The cover story of the July 6 issue of Medical Economics focuses on patient communications. Are you giving your patients false hopes or are you properly communicating things like procedural risks or the seriousness of their conditions?
In a similar vein, a new study by Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute researchers show when a patient and physician disagree about physical well-being, the patient has a higher risk of dying. continues…
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While we at Medical Economics are not doctors and are not experts in clinical topics, our target readers are and are. So, if you choose to respond to one of our postings here on MedBlogger, keep in mind that you’re never really anonymous while online.
Just ask Dr. Robert P. Lindeman who, blogging under the name “Flea,” posted extensively about a malpractice suit he was fighting.
Blogger unmasked, court case upended [Via Boston Globe]
Should doctors blog about their work? [Via Cape Cod Times]
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We’re [not] number one! We’re [far from] number one!
A study published in the online edition of the British Medical Journal showed patient-physician time in the US is about half the average of New Zealand and one-third of Australia.
“The substantially shorter time per capita in the US was the biggest difference we saw in our study. Such a severe shortfall impacts preventive care and management of chronic conditions in the US and could explain why the US does not achieve health outcomes that correspond to its higher level of investment in health care,” said study lead author Andrew Bindman, MD, of the University of California, San Francisco.
Other interesting findings: continues…
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This doctor thinks he is:
I could spend much of my life in faceless airports, airless limos with free bottles of spring water, and cavernous conference halls hurrying to and fro with a few thousand of my closest friends.
Conventional Wisdom? The excesses of the medical conference craze [Via Slate]
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Here’s a story about Dr. Moitri Savard who runs a micropractice, i.e., a practice where all administrative duties are either shared, outsourced or automated by a computer. continues…
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85 percent of those responding to a survey commissioned by financial services company PNC say that hospitals and physicians should be required to disclose the cost of medical services to the public. And more than half said that knowing what hospitals and doctors charge for specific treatments and exactly what insurers pay would influence where they seek care. continues…
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Do you use terms like “heavy” when talking to overweight or obese kids and their parents? Well, a federally funded group convened by the American Medical Association says shouldn’t. They recommend using the term “obese.”
Some doctors avoid blunt terms for “fear that we’re going to stigmatize children, we’re going to take away their self-esteem, we’re going to label them,” Reginald Washington, a committee spokesman and member of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Panel urges doctors to be blunter on child obesity [Via Philadelphia Inquirer]
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Dr. Myo Thant, a Baltimore-based oncologist, is getting in on the Web 2.0 game, launching RelaxDoc.com, “a private community created by physicians, providing concise information and valuable services to help you balance your personal and professional life.”
I can’t get in (the site is doctor-only), but it looks pretty professional from the outside. The site boasts classified ads, blogs, discussion areas, and leisure/vacation info.
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How do you handle giving bad news?
Dr. Liz Dreesen writes about her early experiences while reflecting on a seminar about the topic.
I trained before there was any formal curriculum on “communication in medicine.” It was assumed that we’d simply pick it up along the way, which I did, eventually. It was a process of trial and error though, painfully weighted on the side of error.
How to bear bad news [Via Raleigh Duram News & Observer]
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Louisiana is trying to make serving post-Katrina New Orleans as attractive as possible to doctors, offering incentives of up to $100,000, including student loan repayments and income guarantees.
Many doctors have left the area citing the high cost of malpractice and business insurance and the large population of uninsured patients.
Grant program seeks to lure, keep doctors in post-Katrina N.O. [Via New Orleans Times-Picayune]
Grants aim to cure exodus of doctors [Via New Orleans Times-Picayune]
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