Doctors Must Be Involved in Development of Guidelines
By Harvey B. Lefton, M.D.
We are practicing in an age of rapidly changing treatment modalities and increasing pharmacologic options. What is changing even more rapidly …
Medical Students Match as Couples
By Alvin Tran
More than 17,000 fourth-year medical students found out where they’ll be completing the final years of their medical education on “Match Day” last …
Better Physician-to-Physician Communication Key to Efficient Care
By Michael McKenna, MD
Under health care reform, every hospital and health system is under the gun to deliver care more efficiently and cost-effectively. While faced …
Doctors Group to Congress: Eliminate the SGR!
By Harvey B. Lefton, MD
The sustainable growth rate (SGR) is the method that Medicare uses to calculate payments for physician services. It was devised in …
The Real Problems of Obamacare
By Keith Kantor
The costs of Obamacare are staggering and will be devastating to small businesses in America. The initial estimates have risen from zero to …
Doctors, Patients: Prepare for Smartphone Medicine
By Harvey B. Lefton, MD
We face ongoing changes in Medicine today which will alter our future practice patterns. We all recognize the need for better communication …
Physicians May Become Known As ‘Union Docs’
Increasingly trending in health care — and becoming more common as we move closer to the 2014 implementation of the Affordable Care Act — is …
Doctor Calls For ‘Systemic Change’ to Decrease Gun Violence
By Cheryl Bettigole, MD, MPH
As physicians, some of us have the job of rising in the middle of the night to try to reverse the …
Doctor: It’s time for a serious conversation about preventing gun violence
By Jeffrey Cain, MD
The recent tragedies in Colorado and Connecticut highlight the need for focused attention on the all-too-often unacknowledged public health concern of violence, …
Resolution: Be Aware of Hazards of Dietary Supplements
By Victor J. Navarro, MD
Workout facilities and vegetable aisles are usually jammed this time of year as people vow to get fit and lose weight. Those …