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Reality Training: Patient is weak and dizzy
What are the causes of the patient’s distress and what treatments are indicated?
When Patients Manage Doctors
People who suffer from multiple chronic illnesses often find they must take charge of managing health-care providers, especially when instructions and prescriptions conflict.
Surgeons should tell patients of double-booked surgeries, new guidelines say
The world’s largest surgeons’ organization says a “patient needs to be informed” when a doctor runs more than one operating room at the same time.
Tips for Managing Growth: Put the Patient First
Dr. Timothy Ihrig, Medical Director of Palliative Care at the Trinity Regional Medical Center within the Unity Point Heath System, offers advice on how to ov...
Family Doctors Who Do More, Save More
A study suggests that coordinated care, led by a family doctor who is judicious about referring patients to specialists, leads to cost savings.
How Qualified Is Your Doctor?
Doctors are facing new requirements to keep up-to-date in their knowledge and care for patients in order to stay certified by medical boards.
Doctors Want To Learn More About Treating Transgender Patients, Survey Shows
Transgender patients, meanwhile, have serious complaints with the care they receive.
Why This Doctor Fears Being a Patient
Listen as Dr. Don Berwick describes what he believes is missing from health care, namely a person-centered approach that respects the individual's choices.
High-Need, High-Cost Patients: Who Are They and How Do They Use Health Care?
Twelve million Americans have three or more chronic illnesses, as well as a functional limitation that hinders them from performing basic tasks such as getting around the house. A new study shows who the sickest adults are, and how the health system is or isn't working for them.
BPPV: What to Do About Dizziness
Four short cases illustrate the key points of evidence-based diagnosis and management of BPPV.
Four Metrics to Measure Patient Access at Physician Practices
Use these four metrics to evaluate patient access at your physician practices.
Mercy Heart Health Minute: A-fib ablations patient benefits and risks
Medical Collections: How To Call A Patient At Work
Patients provide your office with their daytime phone numbers, but when you call them at that number they ask,"Why are you calling me at work?" This Collecto...
When Patients Demand Unnecessary Medical Tests
A neurologist and a bioethicist discuss how to approach patients asking for 'unnecessary' tests and procedures.
Pre-heart attack symptoms often dismissed when patient is a woman
While the predominant symptom of a heart attack for both is severe chest pain, women tend to have additional warning signs such as indigestion, shortness of breath or pain in the jaw, neck or arms. But it is those clues that often get dismissed as unrelated to their heart, a study from Yale University’s SchoolRead the full article
What does a Cardiac Rehab team do for patients?
After you have a cardiac event (such as a heart attack or stroke), it’s important to not only recover, but to work to prevent another event. Our Lake Health...
Who Owns the Patient Experience?
Traditional clinical encounters are no longer the sole defining factor of the patient experience.
How common is Cervicogenic Dizziness?
When considering dizziness of cervical origin, it is well accepted in clinical practice to follow the rule of “diagnosis of exclusion”. This means that you can suspect, but not confirm…
Why Doctors Dismiss Dizziness
It’s one of the most common medical complaints, but patients say many doctors don’t take it seriously.
How to Use Patient Portals to Delight Your Patients
Patient portals are an excellent way to delight your patients and free up your staff for more pressing work.
Patient Experience: What Patients Hate The Most
The world record for the high jump remained unbroken for years. Do you know what had to happen to break it? Somebody decided to try jumping backwards…Today we are going to look at how healthcare …
