Scrubs

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

You may wonder how my husband lived almost 40 years and had three kids without ever being diagnosed – simple medical bias. If it weren’t for my medical education, we would have never known my children and husband had EDS and MCAS. This is why we must stand up and start advocating for increased diversity in medicine.

Medication 276

Medication Admissions Follow-Up Insurance 276

Sensible Medicine

JULY 25, 2024

Atle Freithem and colleagues report in the British Medical journal the results of a pragmatic randomized control trial. This study's follow-up is just too short. When I was growing up, parents routinely were happy that their kid got sick, realizing that the sooner they got it over with the better the rest of childhood would go.

Follow-Up 363

Follow-Up Documentation Medication 363

Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Galleri could do more harm to the idea of medical conservatism than any hate rising from Twitter or blogs. So I buried my head in the sand until an article of the February 2 nd WSJ -- Who’s Afraid of Early Cancer Detection? -- made me commit to learning about the test. Today and next week I will post articles about Galleri.

Tests 363

Tests Follow-Up Diagnostics Medication 363

Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

There are many more people competing for slots in medical school and residency and the number of “slots” have increased at a slower pace than the applicants. Publish a journal article; OK. They fill journals with articles that do nothing for medicine but only add a line to a CV. Get straight A’s; done.

Admissions 312

Admissions Follow-Up Customer Service Tests 312

Sensible Medicine

JULY 30, 2024

A pretty good portion of what we post on Sensible Medicine could be considered critical appraisal of the medical literature. Thus, it was an easy decision when a group of medical students asked if we would consider posting an appraisal that came out of their journal club. The article is more hypothesis-generating than conclusive.

Follow-Up 255

Follow-Up Tests Medication Insurance 255

Scrubs

APRIL 5, 2023

Dereck Paul is the co-founder of Glass Health, a start-up in San Francisco that offers artificial intelligence chatbot services to doctors looking to ease the burden of routine processes, such as patient documentation. And now doctors are using it to answer routine clinical questions. The post Should Doctors Use Chat-GPT to Practice Medicine?

Documentation 355

Documentation Follow-Up Medication Hospital 355

Sensible Medicine

APRIL 2, 2024

This post introduces an occasional series, available to our paid subscribers, aimed at helping people improve their ability to read and interpret the medical literature. Improving Your Critical Appraisal Skills will be made up of “chapters” dealing with how to read articles about various study types.

Follow-Up 223

Follow-Up Medication 223

Sensible Medicine

MARCH 19, 2024

What follows is one of those written by Mariana Barosa. Over time, following guidelines became synonymous with delivering optimal evidence-based care, giving rise to what I call guideline-driven EBM. In 2005, the average primary care physician would need 18h/day to follow recommendations for chronic disease and preventive care.

Follow-Up 352

Follow-Up Clinic Management Medication Communication 352

Scrubs

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Beggs shared the videos on TikTok where she quickly racked up hundreds of thousands of views. She now has over 600k followers on the app. She said she feels a responsibility to show up for her audience now that she’s built such a devoted following. In fact, it’s enhancing her knowledge and experience.

Follow-Up 278

Follow-Up Scheduling Documentation Collaboration 278

Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

[i] Though I’ve never been a traditional researcher, I’ve added quite a bit to “medical literature” over the years. Being perfectly honest, not all the articles have aged well. Generally scores of 2 in men or 3 in women indicate anticoagulation) After a mean follow-up of 3.5 to 0.88; P=0.007).

Follow-Up 247

Follow-Up Medication 247

Scrubs

JULY 29, 2023

Stocksy | TJ Macke So you have a gastroenterologist, an anesthesiologist and a medical assistant… Sounds like the beginning of a tawdry joke for the medically inclined, doesn’t it? Instead, what you have is a trio of medical professionals who failed to uphold the ultimate caregiving commandment: Respect thy patient.

Huddles/Rounds 201

Huddles/Rounds Medical Assistant Follow-Up Medication 201

Sensible Medicine

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Sensible Medicine aims to give public voice to critical appraisal that is rejected by medical journals. My aim is to shed light on the quality of scientific articles being published. The following deficiencies assume that CHAGASICS was adequately powered—which it was not. Ed note: Link at the end of post. )

Follow-Up 246

Follow-Up Hospital Medication Admissions 246

Sensible Medicine

JANUARY 15, 2025

As the medical director of a methadone clinic in Washington, D.C., His own heroin addiction began when he was a teenager, following his father’s assassination, and ended in his arrest at age 29. Attempts to discourage the use of these medications or interfere with their availability would be a disaster.

Medication 280

Medication Follow-Up Tests 280

Scrubs

MARCH 3, 2023

Professionals use these mediums to highlight all kinds of issues from unsafe staffing levels, common medical conditions, and even end-of-life care. Several social media influencers in the medical field are speaking out about what drove them to the platform and why they feel the need to continue to post.

Hospice 241

Hospice Follow-Up Medication 241

Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 6, 2024

We thought we’d be able to write a book about churnalism – sort of a follow-up to Ending Medical Reversal – but that book was not meant to be. This page provides links to the original series of churnalism articles and to articles that highlighted some truly egregious examples as they appeared.

Follow-Up 168

Follow-Up Medication 168

Scrubs

MARCH 6, 2023

The cops could see that the woman was in distress and told her she might be having a medical emergency. Palmer reached out to the Mount Pleasant Police Department for a follow up,” the department said. The Mount Pleasant Police Department shared her story on its Facebook page where it quickly went viral.

Follow-Up 246

Follow-Up Hospital Medication 246

Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Even though my practice is made up of about 750, overwhelmingly older people, mostly with chronic medical conditions, I only attend to the death of a patient a few times a month. He is otherwise well, with only hypertension, well-controlled on one medication. Acceptance followed and waxed and waned.

Hospice 301

Hospice Bookkeeping Follow-Up Appointments 301

Sensible Medicine

MAY 9, 2024

Her essay about paying people for organ donations remains one of my favorite Sensible Medicine articles and has become part of my “teaching arsenal.” “Outcry as Philip Morris International funds smoking cessation courses on Medscape,” read an April 9 headline in the British Medical Journal.

Follow-Up 241

Follow-Up Medication Communication 241

Sensible Medicine

MARCH 1, 2024

I’m writing about Dr. Attia because a dozen readers referenced him in comments and emails about the first two articles in this series. He posted a nice article in January on his website that summarize some of his views. If you appreciate our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

Tests 276

Tests Follow-Up Medication 276

Scrubs

MARCH 21, 2023

MaineHealth recently announced it is using AI to automatically record conversations between doctors and their patients during a check-up or follow-up visit. Her regular doctor, Dr. Rebecca Hemphill, used the AI app during her last two medical appointments at MaineHealth. It feels more like my needs are being met.

Hospital 264

Hospital Follow-Up Appointments Documentation 264

Sensible Medicine

MAY 30, 2023

Ioannidis's first paper , that was published in JAMA and co-authored by two Italian researchers, focused on mega-journals, i.e. open-access peer-reviewed journals publishing more than 2000 articles per year. In short: scientific journals made up of editorials, commentaries, reviews, viewpoints, podcasts, interviews, videos.

Communication 245

Communication Follow-Up Medication 245

Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 5, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Medical billing is process of handling and managing claims, processing payments, and generating revenue. It entails various tasks – coding claims correctly, tracing them, following up and much more. Illegal copying is prohibited.

Billing 96

Billing Medication Follow-Up 96

Scrubs

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

She first became a nurse at Munson Medical Center over 50 years ago and has been providing care at home and abroad ever since. I wasn’t somebody who played with dolls, except my sister’s dolls, and I would line them up in the hallway in our house in California and I would play hospital ship.” That was heartbreaking,” she said.

Follow-Up 245

Follow-Up Hospital Medication 245

Scrubs

AUGUST 4, 2023

However, much of that spending may not be medically necessary. New studies reveal just how widespread medically unnecessary care can be, forcing patients to pay for procedures and tests they may not need. Find out why medically unnecessary care is on the rise and what patients can do to protect themselves.

Tests 230

Tests Billing Insurance Medication 230

Sensible Medicine

JUNE 26, 2023

I am posting the “Study of the Week” today and John will be publishing a “My Favorite Article” piece later in the week. Of course, sometimes fatigue can be a symptoms of a serious medical condition that needs to be treated – I refer you to chapter 18 of Symptom to Diagnosis: Fatigue. .”

Tests 246

Tests Follow-Up Medication 246

Scrubs

AUGUST 6, 2023

Obesity can lead to a range of health problems, including type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, joint problems, gallstones and other medical concerns. This new sense of self helped her stay focused on the end goal as opposed to getting hung up on the daily challenges of dieting.

Follow-Up 246

Follow-Up Appointments Medication 246

Sensible Medicine

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Currently, the medical literature is at a stalemate. [1] One article from 2011 approximates 86 cancers and 11 deaths per 100,000 women due to breast cancer screening. This may lead some patients to fear or refuse safe and appropriate medical imaging, to the detriment of the patient.”

Diagnostics 310

Diagnostics Follow-Up Medication Hospital 310

Sensible Medicine

MAY 25, 2023

Have I been neglecting the medical literature? For calcium deposits in breast arteries to be important, we would need to know that some action based on this finding, whether it be further diagnostic testing, lifestyle modification, or medical therapy, actually benefits a woman. The article’s post-script makes it easy for us.

Tests 198

Tests Diagnostics Follow-Up Insurance 198

Medical Advantage

MARCH 19, 2024

Since its inception in 1933, National Doctor’s Day has been an occasion to honor both past and present medical professionals for their dedication and commitment to sustaining the health of individuals and communities across the nation. The following sections will provide more detail.

Medication 98

Medication Follow-Up Best Practices Appointments 98

Sensible Medicine

JULY 6, 2023

Bempedoic acid is a medication similar to statins (it targets cholesterol synthesis up-stream of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase as do statins) and, in fact, both similarly lower LDL-cholesterol. They were followed for 40 months. This occurs despite the fact the medication reduced LDL equally in both subsets.

Follow-Up 231

Follow-Up Medication Tests 231

Scrubs

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

If patients are having trouble following the latest health recommendations, providers can engage with the community to better understand why these problems persist. economy up to $236 billion every year due to preventable medical errors, increased rates of illness and disability, and wage losses.

Acute Care 261

Acute Care Critical Thinking Discharges Follow-Up 261

Sensible Medicine

JUNE 6, 2023

Not to date him, but David Rind was one of the faculty members who first taught me how to critically read the medical literature. As a result, many medical students and residents get the impression that the goal of reading a trial is a hunt for a fatal error. Loss to follow-up: This concern is less reasonable.

Follow-Up 245

Follow-Up Medication 245

CollaborateMD

DECEMBER 6, 2024

If medical claims management is such a vital part of the healthcare ecosystem, why is it so frustrating? In this article, we’ll dig into this complex process to discover the top claims management challenges and reveal the costs to practices. It’s also a big part of accounts receivable. Easy, right?

Medication 97

Medication Billing Patient Satisfaction Best Practices 97

Scrubs

AUGUST 2, 2023

Now kick up your feet, pour yourself a glass of wine and let allllll the joyous perks of nursing sink in. Think about it: When you represent one of the nation’s most trusted and respected professions, you sidestep some of the unpleasantries that follow hot on the heels of others. You can literally save lives.

Follow-Up 246

Follow-Up Hospital Medication 246

Health Prime

MAY 2, 2024

Learn other strategies to build your online presence and market your practice in our blog How to market your medical practice and improve your business. Implement appointment reminders and follow-ups Use automated appointment reminders and follow-up communications to enhance the patient experience.

Follow-Up 105

Follow-Up Appointments Billing Scheduling 105

Scrubs

AUGUST 22, 2023

Just this year alone, we’ve seen some of the largest and most alarming healthcare data breaches in history, including those related to the American Medical Collection Agency, insurer Dominion National, and Inmediata Health Group, just to name a few. The number of healthcare data breaches keeps going up year after year.

Follow-Up 240

Follow-Up Documentation HIPAA Patient Records 240

Sensible Medicine

JANUARY 31, 2025

In the years that followed, I learned of efforts to remove racial identifiers from medical textbooks and test questions. Another critical point is that socially defined race (the only kind) – Black, Asian, European – are terribly inaccurate stand-ins for what medically important variation there is.

Diagnostics 201

Diagnostics Tests Follow-Up Medical History 201