Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: May 26, 2020
It is time to address the complete lack of uniformity in telemedicine billing codes.
Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: May 18, 2020
A cost of the pandemic that has not yet fully emerged will be people who unknowingly survived potentially serious problems and let them go untreate...
Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: May 12, 2020
Years of training and clinical experience as a specialist does not qualify one to jump into general medicine.
Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: May 12, 2020
Just because they’re new doesn’t mean they’re bad.
News
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: April 28, 2020
“I think all of us have come to accept this strange pause button that’s been pushed, and I’ll try to learn what I can from it and take that with me...
Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: April 16, 2020
“I’ve stopped taking a paycheck so I can keep paying [my two staff members], my rent, and the other miscellaneous costs of running an office,” says...
News
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: April 7, 2020
Dr. Allan M. Block wonders how telemedicine, working from home, grocery delivery, and other social changes will alter our future.
News
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: March 30, 2020
Every bed possible is being kept open for the feared onslaught of coronavirus patients in the coming weeks. Protective equipment, already in short ...
Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: March 19, 2020
“With the relaxing of telehealth requirements for Medicare that were announced on March 17, I’m setting up to ‘see’ patients remotely,” says Dr. Al...
Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: March 11, 2020
In the food environment of developed countries, does a misplaced faith in the effectiveness of statins, antihypertensives, and other medications pl...
News
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: February 27, 2020
Why are reams of paper necessary for one research study protocol when a digital copy will do just fine?
News
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: February 7, 2020
Dr. Allan M. Block recounts his experience in taking care of a former attending physician who taught him during his residency.
Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: January 24, 2020
Rush drummer Neil Peart’s recent death from glioblastoma is another example of how “neurologic disease doesn’t discriminate against anyone, regardl...
Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: January 10, 2020
“Unproven treatments are just that – unproven – and shouldn’t be marketed as effective ones,” says Dr. Allan M. Block.
Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: January 3, 2020
“Basically, what the other doctor did was perform a walletectomy (or, in this case insurance-ectomy) on the patient under the guise (to her) that h...
