Medical Xpress

JANUARY 19, 2023

Telemedicine may be just as effective as in-person visits when it comes to shared decision-making and communication for patients undergoing a first-time surgery consultation, according to a study published as an "article in press" in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons and presented at the Southern Surgical Association 134th Annual Meeting (..)

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Noreta Family Medicine

MARCH 26, 2025

Many of our patients have shared how they often felt rushed at their previous primary care doctor’s office, leaving appointments with lingering concerns. For instance, when a patient recently texted us with complaints of shoulder pain after a fall, Dr. Boylan arranged an appointment and ordered an X-ray — all within just a few hours. “

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 26, 2025

Reynolds Fact checked by Chris Mazzolini Blog Article Telehealth has evolved into a vital service channel, yet many practices struggle with inadequate setups. Before your next virtual appointment, run your setup through these seven checkpoints. 7 quick checkpoints for practices June 26, 2025 By Keith A. Singer, M.D.,

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 10, 2025

We consider such collaborations in this article. With such a system in place, a hospital can have multiple AI agents across medical departments to communicate and share insights, such as for appointment bookings and subsequent steps in a patient’s healthcare journey. It is the framework within which AI agents operate.

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Edge Family Medicine

MARCH 12, 2025

Schedule an Appointment Final Thoughts Seasonal allergies don’t have to take over your life. At Edge Family Medicine , we offer personalized allergy treatment plans tailored to your specific symptoms and triggers. Whether you need a prescription, allergy testing, or long-term management strategies , our expert team is here to help.

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Logansport Memorial Hospital

APRIL 23, 2024

In this blog article, Dr. Scott Marsh, our podiatrist here at Logansport Memorial, shares some tips to keep your feet healthy. At your appointment, your podiatrist will check your blood flow and sensation. To schedule an appointment with Dr. Marsh, call the office at 574.753.3338. Consider trying a sandal with arch support.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 15, 2025

Calling to schedule the next available appointment and taking time off work. A 2022 article in the Harvard Business Review introduced the term sludge to describe “these types of situations in which the design of a specific process consistently impedes individuals from completing their intended action.” Travel to the doctor’s office.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 6, 2024

In this article, I want to give you a clearer understanding of what concierge medicine is, why it’s gaining popularity, and how it might be a good fit for you. A rushed fifteen-minute appointment simply wasn’t enough for someone with complex needs. What is Concierge Medicine? "A

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Noreta Family Medicine

MARCH 20, 2024

If you call the office to make your first appointment and end up in a phone tree with 9 choices, followed by needing to be transferred to 3 different people, then perhaps that may predict communication problems in the future! Read My Latest News!

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CDOCS

MARCH 31, 2021

& This process included& well-choreographed steps beginning with an initial impression to make a custom tray which would be used at the following appointment.& ¹ In total, these 3 appointments could take up to 4 weeks to complete.</span></span></p>

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 17, 2025

Rather, it’s a dental professional who can demonstrate the proper techniques at your next appointment. As explored in our dedicated articles, it might become the ultimate weapon against cancer or, more controversially, help design babies in the future. And the field of dentistry will also benefit from the technology as well.

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Noreta Family Medicine

JANUARY 6, 2025

Just like you schedule your doctor and hair appointments, schedule time to exercise so that you will keep that time free. These are good reasons to make an appointment with your primary care doctor. Melissa Boylan, MD, FAAFP Family Physician and Owner of Noreta Family Medicine ← Read Past Articles Here!

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 27, 2024

" The Gilded Age of Medicine is Here ," announced the title of a recent New Yorker article about the tactics of private equity firms that provide infusions of cash to struggling hospitals in order to extract hundreds of millions of dollars in profits by slashing costs to the bone and endangering the health of patients.

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Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

These are the moments when you don’t have time to wait for an appointment with your primary care doctor, and the emergency room (ER) seems like overkill. In this article, I’ll walk you through why urgent care could be your best option when time is of the essence. Life happens fast, and sometimes, so do medical issues.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 16, 2025

Reynolds Feature Article Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts. You might also want to estimate how long the visit will last so the patient can plan their schedule before or after the doctor’s appointment. Practice tip of the week: Strategic planning mistakes Keith A. 60: Strategic planning with Stephen A.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 20, 2025

Reynolds Blog Article Innovative medical practices thrive by embracing change, prioritizing patient care and learning from setbacks to enhance success and satisfaction. Did they have to wait long to obtain an appointment? or less) on an appointment card. " For example, would you wait three or more weeks for an appointment?

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 24, 2025

Reynolds Fact checked by Chris Mazzolini Blog Article Thoughtful design in medical practices enhance patient experience, boost staff productivity, and improve online reviews without major renovations. Likewise, flow-oriented layouts have been linked to higher staff productivity and fewer late appointments. Read the findings.

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The Medical Futurist

MAY 18, 2025

With remote-controlled medical robots, caretakers can interact with their patients, check on their living conditions and the need for further appointments. Nanorobots swimming in blood In 2016, we released an article dedicated to nanotechnology in medicine.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

FTC was pending before the Supreme Court, former Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Commissioner Rohit Chopra (now Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) and Samuel Levine (recently appointed Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection) coauthored an article proposing resurrecting the FTC Act’s penalty offense authority.

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CDOCS

APRIL 14, 2021

Michael Snider<br /> Sponsored by 3M</em></p> <p>& </p> <p><span style="font-size:14px;">As I was sitting down yesterday to begin a standard appointment for a single unit restoration, I was struck by how far we have come in such a short time.&

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

The intervention involved mailing medication-specific brochures to patients before their primary care appointments (click here for the brochure ). Eric 16:36 Okay, Connie, I got one last question about your article. Michelle 35:24 So we did a little different study design than the other articles we’ve heard about today.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

If you want to take a deeper dive into this subject and read some of the articles we discussed in the podcast, check out the following: Hearing Loss: Effect on Hospice and Palliative Care Through the Eyes of Practitioners. He was an otolaryngologist and epidemiology person too, might have an appointment in geriatrics too. Transcript.

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Edge Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Secure TeleVisits through our patient portal for seamless online appointments. Book an appointment today: Contact Us The post Telemedicine vs. In-Person Care: Choosing the Best Option for Your Health appeared first on Edge Family Medicine. Experienced providers offering both virtual and in-office consultations.

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GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

We discuss our favorite articles, parody songs, and memories from AGS meetings past, with a little preview of a song for this years meeting. We covered: The first parody song I wrote, for AGS 2018 in Orlando , about this article by Nancy Schoenborn on how to discuss stopping cancer screening. And then I got to choose the first article.

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Tiny Physician

DECEMBER 11, 2021

The PG doctors strike has entered its 12th day at the time of publishing this article and it has badly affected the patient care at the Government Medical Colleges (GMCs). If you feel that the resident doctors (PG doctors) are at fault for this mess, then please go through the whole article to completely understand the problem.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In this article, we’ll explore what makes primary care essential, how it differs from other types of care, and what you should look for when choosing the best primary care provider in Michigan. Do you want a doctor who’s particularly attentive to mental health?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

On today today’s podcast, we are joined by guest host and UCSF geriatrician Ashwin Kotwal as we welcome Dr. Tisamarie Sherry (Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Behavioral Health, Disability, and Aging Policy (BHDAP) , appointed by the Biden administration). So this point led us to select these articles.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

I love this series of articles because each presents a component of a practical, patient-centered approach to patient-surgeon communication and decision making, and language surgeons (and surgical trainees) can start using in their next patient visit. I adored this article. Alexis, welcome to GeriPal. Alexis: Thanks for having me.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. I guess, I’d say, and I said this in the article, we saw more movement on the FACT-G subscales of social and emotional quality of life. I will say, the other critique we had in the article was around generalizability.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

This topic came up with Bernie published an article in New England Journal called Deciding for Patients Who Have Lost Decision-Making Capacity Finding Common Ground in Medical Ethics. You write about this, you’ve written this New England Journal article, you’ve written past articles.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

I, for example, had one patient, I remember during my fellowship, I was in geriatrics clinic and had a very well read patient who came in and was reading a New York Times article, I think in the well section at one point. And I was asking this patient about if he had filled out an advanced directive. Here’s who sets up my medications.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

And then the family tells me they can’t keep an appointment, they can’t manage their finances. Eric 18:39 Yeah, I do worry a little bit because I recently had a primary care appointment. But you wrote an article about what primary care Needs. Cant we skip all this and just send some blood-based biomarkers?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Find out on this weeks podcast where we invite Joseph Greer, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson to talk about their recent JAMA article on Telehealth vs In-Person Early Palliative Care for Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer – A Multisite Randomized Clinical Trial. It’s the same measure we used in the New England journal article.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Start by reading this article by Sean Morrison, Diane Meier, and Bob Arnold in JAMA , and this response from Rebecca Sudore, Susan Hickman, and Anne Walling. So I do think it often does happen that younger adults appoint a surrogate when they engage in estate planning, for example. It created a lot of challenges.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Here are some more resources we’ve discussed in the podcast Dani’s NEJM article on coping: “ Should I Laugh at That? Somebody shouts at my front Desk staff because they’re pissed off about their appointment time. I said, you know, I don’t usually start my appointments in laughter. Everything. And we Laugh about it.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

So these different standardized measures that patients can complete either right before their appointment or during their appointment right before they see the doctor or something like this, and it’s kind of standardized. Alex: And you had this fascinating article. Eric: What’s a PRO? It can be both of them together.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We got a couple of articles to discuss and a lot of different components of this. Eric: Which brings us to an article. And it kind of lends you to think about also opioid use disorder and substance use disorder in the aging population, because again, you wrote an article in the… Was it Lancet? Jessie: Exactly. Eric: Yeah.

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