Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: April 13, 2021
Placing limitations on the numbers of family members in the waiting room makes the difficult environment of being there easier for all to deal with...
Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: April 5, 2021
In a world where we can often keep people physically up and around, our ability to do the same with their minds and souls is still desperately in n...
Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: March 30, 2021
A simple, time-honored, cognitive assessment question has become so polarizing that it is clinically worthless.
Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: March 25, 2021
Once something is in a chart, whether it is accurate or not, it’s impossible to get it out.
Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: March 16, 2021
A chart is a legal document; once a note has been signed off on, it cannot be changed.
Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: March 8, 2021
If I’ve already passed the neurology boards three times, hopefully that means I know what I’m doing.
Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: February 26, 2021
Pushing cash-pay procedures that are outside my specialty is flat-out wrong.
Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: February 10, 2021
Sometimes life will throw us a surprise that makes us remember how important every minute really is.
Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: February 1, 2021
The ER, and the inpatient setting, are often the worst possible places to be managing functional disorders.
Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: January 20, 2021
The real question should be ‘How much money do I need?’ Rather than ‘How much should I be making?’
Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: January 4, 2021
“If I’m going to try to help you get better, then you should be willing to wear a mask to help protect me, too.”
Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: December 8, 2020
Hopefully, The Lost Year will gradually become a memory as life goes on and normalizes.
Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: November 30, 2020
After 20 years of solo practice, I am still doing something that I found I loved in my first week of residency.
Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: November 19, 2020
Are a widening array of treatment options pushing MS into the realm of subspecialist care?
Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: October 28, 2020
It’s probably been over a year since a warning email from the PMP told me something I didn’t already know.
