By: Robert Bonakdar, MD From: kevinmd.com Last month I saw Joan, a woman who has had low back pain for years. She’d been through the ringer like every other person in severe pain: countless procedures and medications. She continued to have daily pain that stopped her from staying focused at work, playing with her kids or being the spouse or …
Physicians need to take back the medical profession from EHRs
By: Patrick Johnson, MD, LaGrange, Texas From: medicaleconomics.modernmedicine.com I believe that it is high time that medical doctors (not “providers”) rise up and regain our rightful and long-lost place at the top of the medical hierarchy. How in the world did this happen in the first place? How did we become second-class citizens, led around by the nose and pushed around …
Dear insurance doctor: You are not my peer
By: Rick Boulay, MD From: kevinmd.com I am a gynecologic-oncologist. I work in the high-stakes realm of cancer care. I strategize complex treatment plans involving surgery, radiation, chemotherapy and the newer biological agents to treat the myriad of disease that we call collectively “cancer.” Cure — or at least control — requires urgent and timely administration of these modalities along …