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Family Practice 2.0: New Year, New Site
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Family Practice 2.0. An ongoing discussion of the changes and frustrations with medical care by an observer, participant and active provider of it. Sunday, January 5, 2014. New Year, New Site. OK, I haven't been silent, I've been posting on Wordpress with a new look and a new site. Come check it out! I'm hoping that this year, 2014, will see some other changes on the site. More patient information, maybe some guests blogs and definitely some videos. If I can only find the time. New Year, New Site. In Lou...
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Family Practice 2.0: September 2012
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Family Practice 2.0. An ongoing discussion of the changes and frustrations with medical care by an observer, participant and active provider of it. Sunday, September 30, 2012. Statistically patients have a problem speaking up for themselves in a doctor's office[1,2] and in my own uncomfortable state of mind it is unlikely I would have picked up on their discomfort! 1 http:/ healthecommunications.wordpress.com/2010/09/01/five-reasons-why-people-do-not-ask-their-doctor-questions/. Links to this post. Tim J...
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Family Practice 2.0: Team Huddles Make for a Satisfying Day!
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Family Practice 2.0. An ongoing discussion of the changes and frustrations with medical care by an observer, participant and active provider of it. Wednesday, October 16, 2013. Team Huddles Make for a Satisfying Day! Five minutes before my day begins I discover two patients scheduled for ER followups don't have the hospital records yet in the chart. Can we get those, please? OK, let's do this! Sometime in 2012 I heard about using the Huddle Technique. In medicine. When The Happy MD. In regard to standing...
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Family Practice 2.0: November 2012
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Family Practice 2.0. An ongoing discussion of the changes and frustrations with medical care by an observer, participant and active provider of it. Monday, November 26, 2012. Amusingly enough, the article made me daydream:. From the app iBP. By Leading Edge Apps LLC. But no, my screen is riddled with tiny mono-color dots and clickorrhea is the name of the game. Links to this post. Saturday, November 24, 2012. Emma and Great Uncle Tim. Belle of Louisville in lights. This year I was on call for our office ...
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Family Practice 2.0: July 2013
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Family Practice 2.0. An ongoing discussion of the changes and frustrations with medical care by an observer, participant and active provider of it. Tuesday, July 16, 2013. The Importance of Being on the Same Page. No doctor is perfect. My guess is that orthopedic surgeons are as tired of talking about the importance of weight loss and exercise as I am to what seems to be deaf ears. Worse, it's unprofessional to complain about other specialists[1], but my last two weeks have been a bit frustrating. At tha...
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Family Practice 2.0: March 2013
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Family Practice 2.0. An ongoing discussion of the changes and frustrations with medical care by an observer, participant and active provider of it. Sunday, March 24, 2013. Another Surreal Moment in Modern Medicine. A few months ago my office manager, Debbie, informed me that it was time for my annual "coding audit". This is where my employer sends in a hired gun to determine if my choices of office codes for billing purposes are correctly done. Did I document enough to support a 99214? The comprehensive ...
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Family Practice 2.0: May 2013
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Family Practice 2.0. An ongoing discussion of the changes and frustrations with medical care by an observer, participant and active provider of it. Sunday, May 26, 2013. OUCH I must be a horrible doctor. Recently I began reading Dr. Kevin Pho's book, Establishing, Managing and Protecting Your OnLine Reputation. Last year I had encouraged patients to go to the Healthgrades. Am I not kind enough? Does my face show disappointment or frustration? The worst was looking at the Drscore.com. The site itself is p...
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Family Practice 2.0: January 2014
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Family Practice 2.0. An ongoing discussion of the changes and frustrations with medical care by an observer, participant and active provider of it. Sunday, January 5, 2014. New Year, New Site. OK, I haven't been silent, I've been posting on Wordpress with a new look and a new site. Come check it out! I'm hoping that this year, 2014, will see some other changes on the site. More patient information, maybe some guests blogs and definitely some videos. If I can only find the time. Links to this post. In Lou...
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Family Practice 2.0: April 2013
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Family Practice 2.0. An ongoing discussion of the changes and frustrations with medical care by an observer, participant and active provider of it. Sunday, April 28, 2013. Last week my office received a call from a distressed patient who went to the pharmacy to fill prescriptions following a hospitalization. The cost for a month's worth of three medications she was expected to stay on indefinitely. What about the pharmacists in the hospital? Could this become part of the discharge process? Hospitals will...