physician

In the US, the title physician is widely used in the newer, broader sense and applies to any person holding the degrees of doctor of medicine (MD) and doctor of osteopathic medicine (DO), but is often referred to simply as a Doctor. The American Medical Association uses the term physician to describe all its members. For example, osteopaths are recognized as physicians and podiatrists with a doctor of podiatric medicine degree are referred to as podiatric physicians.

However, outside of the US the term physician is still used in its older, narrow sense to describe a specialist in internal medicine - that is a specialist in treatment by drugs or medications - while a surgeon would be a specialist in surgical procedures. It takes years of training and experience to become a physician. Such physicians are highly respected and are often members or “fellows” of professional bodies like the Royal College of Physicians in the UK.

A physician is another name for a doctor although it does have 2 meanings as you will see below. If bloggers want to know more about physicians, Grunt Doc might be amusing as this blog is the ramblings of an emergency physician in Texas. On a more serious note, Neuro Spotlight offers informational blogs, on technology and other subjects, produced by physicians themselves

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “physician”

 

• Ensure health care workers have sick leave to reduce presenteeism

  
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  Like hand hygiene, getting workers to stay home when sick is an example of a horizontal infection prevention strategy . Horizontal strategies are multipotent (not aimed at a single pathogen), generally simple methods. While most humans inherently know that it’s not a good idea to come to work with fever or ...
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• Physician Payment Sunshine Act: HHS OIG Reports the NPPS Database as Largely Inaccurate

  
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  The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a report titled " Improvements Needed to Ensure Provider Enumeration and Medicare Enrollment Data Are Accurate, Complete, and Consistent ."   The report cites multiple failings in the reliability of the data ...
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• Pulling me away from the seductive simplicity of cookbook medicine

  
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  This, apparently, is a map of my mind.  It’s a little shocking to find out that my mind looks like a sea creature, a bug, or perhaps a vegetable.  Actually, “Rob’s mind” and “vegetable” are often used in the same sentence. Someone suggested to me that I may benefit from mind mapping.  I don’t know ...
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• Palliative care has become the last bastion of health care sanity

  
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  I couldn’t really blame the social worker.  He was just doing his job.  The skilled nursing facility (SNF) connected to the hospital was full of flailing patients.  So he thought he would ask for a palliative care consult (after getting an okay from the primary team).  It was his third request of the day.  He ...
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• Nine Out of Ten Hospitals Have No Plan to Achieve Patient Satisfaction

  
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  [Study] There’s a huge gap “between hospital management and frontline clinicians with respect to improving patient satisfaction,” according to a study out of Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Boston. It seems as if “patient satisfaction” is everyone’s destination, but few hospitals have a map to get ...
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• Father’s Day: A Legacy

  
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  "My father: sturdy, disliking fuss, dutiful, determined, and more than a bit obsessive. He believed that money was the root of all evil, and that stealing a penny was no more pardonable than stealing a million dollars. Even the Catholic Church’s teachings were more lenient, dividing sins, as they did, into venial ...
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• Childcare during medical training: Sometimes you just get lucky

  
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  Sometimes you just get lucky. When I was pregnant with my first child, during my radiation oncology residency, we had a guy living in the apartment over our garage, which we liked to refer to as “the carriage house.” He was a dog trainer by trade, and in his spare time he played softball in a local adult league. ...
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• Fear is a primal emotion in medicine

  
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  An excerpt from  What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine . Excerpted with permission by Beacon Press. The stat cardiac-arrest page came through on my beeper at exactly the same moment as the hospital-wide PA system announced, “Code 411, cardiac arrest, MICU.” The operator chanted the ...
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• Innovation is a step further

  
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  Whats the difference between an improvement and an innovation 1395_ 6/15/13 - Arlen Meyers , MD, MBA, a professor at the CU School of Medicine, Department of Otolaryngology and he is President/CEO of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs . Part 3 of 4 ... Were talking about innovation and ...
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• A dream to help everyone find and choose better foods

  
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  NuVal began as, and remains, a dream of mine — a dream about helping everyone find and choose better foods , and in the process, putting pressure on the food industry to offer better foods in the first place. They’ll stop selling what we stop buying, after all. This was a dream born initially of frustration . ...
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• It’s time for parents to stop distracted driving

  
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  As someone who has been a parent for 22 years, I know firsthand just how hard driving kids around can be. When they are little they cry, as they get older they ask a million questions and fight with their siblings, and when they get older there’s the whole issue of the radio, not to mention the chaos of friends in ...
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• Physician Payment Sunshine Act: Four Tips for Manufactures, Physicians and Hospitals

  
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  A recent article from Med City News highlighted 4 Tips for applicable manufacturers and 4 tips for physicians regarding compliance with the finalized rules implementing the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. The article was written by Michael J. Summerhill is a partner and Lauren S. Berheide is an associate in the ...
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• Establish Boundaries With Difficult Patients Early, Before the Relationship Descends Into Crazy Town

  
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  Be forewarned, this is an “elephant in the room” post about dealing with difficult patients. It’s a common situation and a sensitive topic. And if you’re uncomfortable confronting the problem (or dealing with challenging, dependent, manipulative, noncompliant, upset and/or time-sucking patients…then read no ...
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• Finding mindfulness in unexpected places

  
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  I’m not sure I’ve ever been great at being still. As a kid, I joined one activity after another. Not because my parents told me I should. I just liked it. Staying busy. But, I could concentrate. Quiet the mind. I’d sit and read for hours on end or close my eyes and listen to a cassette tape from beginning to ...
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• Americans too often lose autonomy at the end of their life

  
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  Perhaps it’s because I love the practice of medicine so much. Or maybe it’s because doctors (and teachers) have always been my heroes. I’m trying to sort out why I feel so offended by Paul McHugh’s editorial in the Wall Street Journal . His sensational and paternalistic view of physician-assisted suicide ...
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• Che Guevara Biography - The Leader Of Cuban Guerrilla

  
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  Che Guevara Biography - The Leader Of Cuban Guerrilla  Ernesto Guevara de La Serna Lynch also know " Che Guevara " (born in Rosario, Argentina, June 14, 1928 - died in Bolivia, October 9, 1967 at the age of 39 years) is Argentine Marxist revolutionary and Cuban guerrilla leader. Guevara was born in Rosario, ...
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• Second opinions: A chance to listen and teach

  
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  You drive down a busy expressway amidst thousands of other vehicles and a billboard jumps out at you.  In the font of confidence, it reads, “The first step in fighting cancer should be a second opinion.” The billboard informs you of the location of the nearest Cancer Treatment Center of America (CTCA), ...
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• Using Insights to Operationalize Customer Feedback

  
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  At PeopleMetrics we help clients derive value from customer feedback in three ways: helping design and guide their customer experience strategy, analyzing customer data, and providing them with powerful VoC software to take action in real-time. This series highlights individuals from PeopleMetrics representing these ...
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• The spiritual bond between two souls

  
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  Being a part time hospitalist, I am frequently on overnight call in the hospital, spending the night admitting sick patients from the emergency room, or dealing with any calamities that happen on the medical floors. I would have to say the that the most dreaded events are: “Code blue” (this means a hospitalized ...
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• Practitioners vent EHR concerns in newspaper op-eds

  
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  Tired of suffering in silence, physician practices are turning to the editorial pages of their local newspapers to publicize their concerns with their electronic health records. read more
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