Answers To Diseases

That’s a tall order for many American physicians.
Atul Gawande recently addressed the graduating class of the University of Chicago medical school. In his speech, which is an extension of his celebrated New Yorker piece, he looks at so-called “positive deviants,” or doctors who practice higher value, higher quality care, than everyone else.
What makes these [...]

The following is part of a series of original guest columns by the American Medical Association.
by J. James Rohack, M.D.

Generally, all third-year American medical students rotate in medicine, surgery, OB/GYN, pediatrics, and psychiatry.
Should geriatrics be added to that list?

A lot of time and effort needs to be spent finding the right patient-physician match. And no where is that more relevant than a diabetic looking for an endocrinologist.
Diabetes blogger Amy Tenderich gives some great tips, most of which I hadn’t thought of.

“If you aren’t at the table, then you are on the menu.”
That’s a priceless quote from Dr. Val Jones, who primary care physician Rob Lamberts cites in a piece from MedPage Today. With health reform dominating Washington D.C. this summer, both patients and doctors “on the ground,” so to speak, are missing from the [...]

Emergency physician Shadowfax will be my next guest on the Live Q&A.
Blogging over at Movin’ Meat, Shadowfax is the pseudonym of an emergency physician in the Pacific Northwest. His blog posts are a combination of cogent health care reform analysis and opinion, commentary from the administrative side of medicine, and fascinating ER cases. [...]

Thanks to Dr. Val Jones for organizing Health Care Reform: Putting Patients First, a panel discussion where health reform will be discussed from a medical blogger perspective.
I have graciously been invited to speak and participate in the ensuing discussion, which also includes other prominent primary care and specialist physician and nurse bloggers like Rob Lamberts, [...]

While kissing a frog MIGHT turn him into a prince, it won’t leave you with warts. Warts are caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV) — a virus that isn’t transferable between human and amphibian. So kiss all the frogs you want!
Warts are incredibly common.