A Country Doctor Writes
JUNE 21, 2025
Six years ago, I wrote the essay below about an article I read in the New England Journal of Medicine. 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. We meet people where they are and in many different ways.
Common Sense Family Doctor
MARCH 15, 2025
Paperwork required to sign up for health insurance and to establish care with a practice. 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.” Wait times.
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The Direct Doctors Difference
DECEMBER 14, 2021
This recent Wall Street Journal article may have hit the nail on the head. During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, insurance companies and state & federal regulators really reduced the requirements surrounding telehealth. The rollbacks of telehealth coverage are not helping.
Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians
APRIL 22, 2025
Including metachromatic leukodystrophy in the newborn screening program. Mandating insurance coverage of vasectomies. SENATE HHS OMNIBUS BILL PROGRESS On the Senate side, the Health and Human Services (HHS) Committee unveiled its omnibus budget bill last week and passed it out of committee to the Finance Committee.
The Medical Futurist
MAY 12, 2025
Sometimes, their private visions diverge from their public ones, and this article shares what they won’t admit publicly through four lenses. For example, the generative AI model developed in collaboration between NVIDIA and Recursion Pharmaceuticals demonstrated its unique screening prowess. It can screen more than 2.8
Physician's Practice
JUNE 26, 2025
Physicians Practice Pearls Profiles is a dynamic new feature designed to bring our trusted columnists off the page and onto your screen. In just three to five minutes every contributor will introduce themselves, share a signature “pearl” they rely on in daily work or preview the practical themes they will unpack in upcoming articles.
GeriPal
MAY 5, 2022
Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. How to screen for hearing loss. Eric: And how do we screen for it? Communication techniques we can use when talking to individuals with hearing loss.
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