Commentary
Managing Your Practice
Addressing patients’ complaints
Hitting A Nerve
Patient treatment expectations can outweigh equivocal effectiveness data
News
Life is beautiful
A perfectly arranged Mayo stand, oh, exactly as you like it. An empty EMR in basket. A flap close on the nose that closes just so.
Managing Your Practice
How well are your phones being answered?
Even now, in the era of texting and e-mail, the telephone remains our primary point of contact with new and long-time patients.
News
Antimigraine agents in pregnancy and lactation
Hitting A Nerve
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...
News
Superheroes
Heroes change with the times and are metaphors for the real-life challenges we face and our abilities to overcome them.
Managing Your Practice
The Sunshine Act, 5 years hence
The law’s questionable impact and apparent lack of enforcement do not mean you can ignore it. The data are still being collected and displayed.
Opinion
Real-world data, machine learning, and the reemergence of humanism
Innovators are beginning to explore how machine learning (used by Amazon and Google) might be used to improve the care of patients.
Law & Medicine
Dr. Bawa-Garba and trainee liability