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Tips on Choosing a Doctor
How do I know if a doctor is right for me?Tips On How To Choose A Doctor:A Guide For Health Care Consumers In GeorgiaThe Georgia Medical Board does not provide a referral service for consumers who need to choose a doctor. However, the following information may be helpful to you when making your decision in choosing a doctor for you and your family.
Patients much likelier to choose hospital that employs their doctor
When patients have to go to the hospital, they're likely to choose a facility that employs their doctor, a new study suggests. The study, which finds that patients of independent doctors often choose low-cost and high-quality hospitals, hints that not all organizations are successfully integrating care.
5 questions men should ask their doctors
Visiting your doctor and asking the right questions may go a long way toward preventing disease. Learn what experts recommend for optimal men’s health.
What Doctors Should Know About Social Media Risks and Rewards
Social media can be a powerful tool for engaging and educating patients, but it comes with liability risks. Help protect yourself and your practice by review...
Exactly What the Doctor Is Checking During Your Dog or Cat's Exam
Your veterinarian learns a great deal about your pet during a standard wellness exam. Discover what your vet is looking for and what you should tell her.
3 Ways Obamacare Is Changing How A Hospital Cares For Patients
For the first time, doctors have a financial incentive to keep patients out of the hospital. That's leading to some interesting changes.
How is the doctor-patient relationship changing? It’s going electronic.
Online records, video visits and smartphone medicine transform the traditional office appointment.
Why are doctors burned out? Our health care system is a complicated web
In a survey of physicians, overhauling electronic health record systems led the list of recommendations for decreasing dissatisfaction and burnout.
Why Doctors Are Burned Out by Busywork
Electronic health records and digital clerical work are strongly linked to burnout
When The Doctor Works For The Insurance Company
Big insurance companies are opening their own doctors' offices and clinics — a strategy that has previously met with mixed results.
Study shows patients prefer iPads to doctors when discussing surgery
Often patients undergo procedures without real informed consent being achieved due to technical language, jargon and time pressure, with up to half of patients finding it difficult to understand what their doctor tells them. Now a group of Australian doctors has prepared patients for surgery using iPads, and found that patients' understanding was much better than after a face-to-face consultation.
3 Things to Consider When Choosing a Pet Food
No food is one size fits all, and the options can be overwhelming. So, Tomlinson's Feed & Pet Supplies gives you 3 things to consider when choosing a pet food.
Midwives, Doulas, and Doctors: What's the Difference?
What's the difference between a doula, a midwife and an OB-GYN and what can they do for you and your baby? We break it down.
Things to NEVER Lie to Your Doctor About
How much you smoke, drink, eat, exercise and whether you use protection during sex or while out in the sun matters. Doctors weigh in on what matters most.
The 5 Worst Ways to Choose a Vet
In his funny new video, Dr. Andy Roark shares five ways that you should absolutely not choose the veterinarian to care for your beloved pet's health. And, ye...
Do smaller, independent practices have happier doctors?
Autonomy may be the key to lower physician burnout rates.
Many Health Insurers to Limit Choices of Doctors, Hospitals
Many of the new health-insurance marketplaces will include relatively few choices of doctors and hospitals. The big reason behind these limited plans: Cost. Insurers are betting that consumers will be willing to trade some choice and flexibility in order to get cheaper premiums.
The Best Colonoscopy Prep Tips, According to Doctors
Colonoscopy in your future? Most say the prep drink is worse than the actual procedure. Here's how to make drinking it more tolerable.
