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A Pearl From Medical School

A Country Doctor Writes

I’ve never heard any of my American colleagues talk about that, although there are several articles about the connection if you Google it. In addition to the usual causes like infection, autoimmune disorders and multiple myeloma, it was drilled into my head to look for kidney cancer. I ordered some lab tests, including a sed rate.

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From Numbers to Names: How Concierge Care is Redefining the Doctor-Patient Experience

Concierge Choice Physicians

Wayne Lipton, CCP Managing Partner ​America’s trust in medical professionals is dwindling, according to Gallup’s annual professions rating , dropping from a high of 67% in 2021 to just 53% in 2024. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal interviewed physicians, attempting to make sense of the declining numbers.

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“The physician–patient encounter is health care’s choke point” -NEJM

A Country Doctor Writes

Six years ago, I wrote the essay below about an article I read in the New England Journal of Medicine. Most medical practices are still stuck doing piecework. This week’s Journal has a very profound article about why healthcare has not evolved through its technology the way other sectors of society have.

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ICU telemedicine programs bring essential critical care to community hospitals

Sound Physicians

With the absence of intensivists on the ground in these community hospitals, the question becomes how to treat these patients where and when they need care. Our tele-ICU program , which is part of our critical care specialty, has brought meaningful and much-needed intensive care to remote communities for the past five years.

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Don’t Wait to Launch a Membership Medicine Pilot Program: CCP’s plug and play approach makes it easy to get started

Concierge Choice Physicians

Click here to read an article recently published on Becker’s Hospital Review for additional insight, or contact us at 877.888.5590 or answers@ccpmd.com. CCP clients are finding that our programs go far beyond increasing revenue.

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Medicine is a Love that Finds Us

A Country Doctor Writes

I remember being in the hospital and having stomach X-rays and I have also been told we had a family doctor who made house calls. I Googled his name and found another article he had written, in 2009, in the Swedish Medical Journal, Läkartidningen. That article was titled “ I worked as a Doctor for 20 Years.

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Integration with intention

Sound Physicians

It can also put them at immediate risk—research shows that nearly 60% of medication errors happen during this period. Integrating your emergency and hospital medicine programs can make a huge difference in mitigating messy handoffs.