Search results for "Q and A"
A doctor seeks ways to encourage earlier palliative care talks
Q: Ken Murray, MD, a retired family physician, wrote 2 now-famous essays about how doctors die differently. ... Q: How can the palliative care community reach practicing physicians? A: This has been really heartening to me.
October 2014
Questions and answers
So here is a Q and A I sent as a newsletter (and will use when marketing the practice). ... Q: How can I afford to do this? A. I have greatly decreased my overhead by not accepting insurance and keeping my charges simple.
October 2019
‘Discontinued’ medications a problem when using EHRs
Q: If patients went to the pharmacy and had an automatic refill waiting for them, might they think a discontinued medication had been restarted? ... Q: What are some short- and long-term potential solutions? A: Over the short term, [we need] more patient
April 2013
Four types of food vouchers, same dietary outcomes
Does it help long-term planning if vouchers are provided monthly, or are weekly vouchers better because they encourage more frequent shopping and a healthier diet? ... Q: What prompted you to do this study? A: It seemed like a number of health care
September 2019
ACP's new EVP/CEO talks burnout prevention, future focus
Q: How would you describe your involvement with ACP? A: I've been a member for pretty much my entire professional life. ... physician relationship: connecting with the patient and looking into their eyes, not incessantly into the eyes of a computer screen
September 2016
Doctors have an online presence, even if they don't know it yet
Q: How should doctors counter a negative presence online? A: Doctors can claim [their] page and correct [erroneous] information on the vast majority of rating sites. ... Q: What comes next as internists start to establish a positive online presence?
November 2013
Learn how to plan a medical volunteering trip overseas
A: HVO has internal medicine sites in Cambodia, Uganda, Bhutan, India and Peru. ... Q: Do volunteers typically bring their families along? A: A great majority of sites are very family-friendly.
April 2012
What does a doctor look like?
Q: What happened for the rest of the flight? A: My goal was to focus on the patient because she still seemed to be quite rigid and anxious. ... Q: Why do you carry your medical license with you? A: I don't blend, and I don't intend to blend to conform to
April 2019
Former EVP/CEO reflects on his tenure at the College
Q: How has ACP changed along with internal medicine? A: I think that our positions and our advocacy efforts have been addressing some of the new areas that I just mentioned, ... To me, the dirty 4-letter word in health care is “time.” In many ways, I
November 2016
Value-based payments a new source of reimbursement, penalties
Q: What does the VBP program consist of? A: The VBP program contains two primary components:. ... PQRS. Q: What does my practice need to do? A: 1. Update information in PECOS.
March 2013