Medicine
I'm pleased to announce that I have started writing a weekly blog on the website of US News and World Report, Healthcare Headaches. This blog will aim to inform patients about current health issues and how to navigate the health system to get the care they need. The first entry, 3 Ways to Get Your Doctor to Take Your Pain Seriously, discusses a recent study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine about doctors' misperceptions of patients' health beliefs and provides practical tips to patients on how to communicate their needs to clinicians.
US News has given me permission to excerpt or re-post Healthcare Headaches content on Common Sense Family Doctor one week after an entry goes live on their website, which I will do if it makes sense to do so (e.g. involves a primary care theme). In the meantime, please feel free to tell your friends, colleagues, and patients about my new blog. Thank you!
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Medicine
Healthcare headaches
I'm pleased to announce that I have started writing a weekly blog on the website of US News and World Report, Healthcare Headaches. This blog will aim to inform patients about current health issues and how to navigate the health system to get the care they need. The first entry, 3 Ways to Get Your Doctor to Take Your Pain Seriously, discusses a recent study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine about doctors' misperceptions of patients' health beliefs and provides practical tips to patients on how to communicate their needs to clinicians.
US News has given me permission to excerpt or re-post Healthcare Headaches content on Common Sense Family Doctor one week after an entry goes live on their website, which I will do if it makes sense to do so (e.g. involves a primary care theme). In the meantime, please feel free to tell your friends, colleagues, and patients about my new blog. Thank you!
- Reasons To Visit U.s. News & World Report's "top Doctors"
If you've been reading this blog for long, you are probably aware of my skepticism about health care rankings in general, whether these rankings are of hospitals, medical schools, or doctors. Staying true to form, I would advise you to take with a...
- Common Sense Family Doctor Turns Two: Top Posts
On Sunday, Common Sense Family Doctor will celebrate its second birthday! Many thanks to those of you who have been reading this blog since my very first post, as well as those who started reading sometime along the way. As an early birthday present for...
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Here is a recap of this year's Common Sense Family Doctor posts that received the most comments from readers (here or on other blogs such as Healthcare Headaches or KevinMD.com), in chronological order. Happy holidays and see you all in 2011! ** 1....
- Does Your Doctor Understand Your Health Beliefs?
As a family physician, I've found that patients' individual health beliefs often play a big role in important decisions such as starting a new medication or undergoing an invasive test or procedure. Some patients were more willing to endure potentially...
- From One Blog To Three
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