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• Do patient demands drive up health care costs?

  
  KevinMD.com — Authority: 609
  "> "> According to recent data from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, upwards of 60 percent of patients first consult the internet for their health issues. This is leading to more educated patients, taking an increasing role in their own health care. And that’s a good thing. I’d rather be ...
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• Arrgh! AMA Joins AARP in Support of Public Option

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 544
  It came as no surprise to learn this morning that the American Medical Association announced its support for concurrent passage of two health care reform bills in the U.S. House of Representatives.  Sadly, the once-respected organization of physicians now joins the ranks of the misguided AARP (See “Despite Early ...
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• Diagnosing and treating disease is only a small part of a doctor’s job

  
  KevinMD.com — Authority: 609
  "> "> by Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD If asked what a doctor does, most people would probably come up with the standard description of diagnosing and treating disease, usually while wearing an ill-fitting white coat. Before I entered practice, even during my medical training that probably would have been my ...
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• An obsession with making money can be a sign of physician burnout

  
  KevinMD.com — Authority: 609
  "> "> Originally published in HCPLive.com by Jeff Brown, MD Physician burnout has a tremendous effect on the financial bottom line and is far more common than docs want to talk about. When I say the bottom line, I am referencing studies that have been done on “workaholics,” another softly ...
  2 weeks ago

• Medscape op-ed on how to help today’s tense, frustrated doctors

  
  KevinMD.com — Authority: 609
  "> "> My latest opinion piece, co-written with Placebo Journal’s Doug Farrago , was published in Medscape today. Entitled, Help for Today’s Tense, Frustrated Doctors (registration required), we discuss how doctors benefit from finding a ray of humor, despite the glum practice environment many ...
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• The high cost of hiring, and firing, a doctor

  
  KevinMD.com — Authority: 609
  "> "> Originally published in HCPLive.com by Jeff Brown, MD One area we need to look at is the surprisingly high costs of hiring and firing people who work with us. And as always, I rebuke our training programs for their ostrich-like attitudes, ignoring how important managerial and organizational ...
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