Opinion
Whatever “my last doctor” did, I don’t take the bait
In car repair, there’s a mysterious bogeyman known as “the last guy.” And in medicine, there’s “my last doctor,” says Dr. Allan M. Block.
Opinion
Poster ads don’t belong in the clinic
“Patients are bombarded with direct-to-consumer advertising for many drugs in every media outlet. The doctor’s discussion room shouldn’t be one of...
Opinion
Too much to lose from office visit recording or filming
During office visits, Dr. Allan M. Block suggests that it may be prudent to “speak as if everyone is recording, behave as if everyone is filming...
Opinion
Online vitriol’s expansion into doctor discussion sites
“Anonymous websites, by their very nature, tend to attract nastiness since the writers can’t be held accountable. As a result, many of them have...
News
The price we pay for trying to see more and more patients
Medicine continues to penalize those services that require thinking, even though this task is the center of being a good doctor and always has...
News
Keeping the sample closet out of medication decisions
Dr. Allan M. Block says he prescribes more generics now than when he first started practicing, now that experience has taught him insurance...
Opinion
No-shows: Trying to predict and reduce the unpredictable
“All of us are affected by this problem,” says Dr. Allan M. Block.