Doctor, Please Understand Me: I’ll Heal Better
A patient’s relationship with his or her clinician can itself be a powerful source for sickness or healing, says Dr. Charles Raison, CNNHealth’s mental health expert and an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory University. “These findings have been replicated many times…” he wrote in a recent blog. His philosophy on the power of [...]
Read MoreMore Family Medicine Residents in 2011
Match Day 2011 occurred in mid-March, the day when 16,000 medical school seniors learned where they would spend the next three to six years of residency training. Good news for family medicine, but is it good enough? The National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) announced that the number of U. S. seniors matched to family medicine [...]
Read MorePatients Do Get It: The Changing Face of Healthcare Today
Patient perceptions of the pros and cons of concierge medicine have begun to change “where the “rubber meets the road”…meaning, when that individual patient’s primary care physician (PCP) who is making the conversion. Time was, patients would react negatively, asking their doctor “Why are you leaving me?” or …”You are looking to make even more [...]
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