Can we depend upon government-supported health care? As federal and state governments stagger under huge deficits and payments from entitlement programs such as Medicaid and Medicare are being cut back, what’s a hospital to do?
Put patients in charge.
Read full story in Becker’s Hospital Review.
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Early in my career an elderly woman presented to establish care. When I discovered she was suffering from a urinary tract infection, I reviewed all her treatment options from natural remedies to antibiotics. When I stopped talking, she looked straight at me and said, “What’s the matter, Honey? Don’t you know what you are doing?”
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What’s YOUR fantasy? More and more doctors are putting patients in charge of designing their ideal health-care experience. Share your wildest dreams and I’ll do my best to bring them to life. Promise!
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While ideal clinics are opening all across America, some doctors accuse me of practicing “Alice-in-Wonderland” medicine. When ridiculed, I often wonder: Why?
After all, who could be against ideal health care?
Even the Journal of Family Practice praises our innovative community-focused model. And now our clinic is featured in the newest edition of Harvard School of Public Health’s Renegotiating Health Care,
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I’ve been writing prescriptions for twenty years. Early in my career I realized what patients often need can’t be delivered by Pfizer or Merck. Here are some of the best prescriptions I’ve ever written:
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I get a call this week from Maria, a “frustrated and disgusted” ob/gyn in Pennsylvania. I ask her how she found me. She says she dug out my article, one she’d been carrying around since 2007. After fifteen years in three employed hospital positions, she’s finally ready to quit assembly-line medicine.
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One of my sweetest patients is John, a man in his fifties with debilitating arthritis. He’s a fast-talking, anxious fellow who returned for some advice. He told me he wanted to stay active and volunteer, and was ready for the companionship of a good woman.
His blood pressure was higher than usual.
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Breakthrough cure for pain: LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlyXoIql9hY
Have you laughed with your doctor lately? Share your story.
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Enjoy year-round sunshine with a month paid vacation. Earn 300K plus production bonus. No state tax! No call! Daily I’m bombarded with glossy postcards promising the good life.
With so many options, why are physicians fleeing medicine? Some leave for teaching, waitressing, even homemaking. Others escape into administration,
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As Jill leaves, she always says, “I love you!”
Sometimes I whisper. Other times I scream down the hall: “I love you too!”
I think it’s illegal. Or risky. I’m supposed to contain my love, to practice professional distance. But why dissociate from myself or from those I care for?
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I was once a factory-farmed physician. Then I escaped.
Six years ago I left my job and invited my community to design an ideal medical clinic. Thousands of physicians nationwide have created similar ideal, patient-centered practices.
Would we ever go back? Nope. Never. But from what did we actually escape?
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I work very part time. But I provide 24/7 access. Seem impossible?
Here’s how I do it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh_Eg0JprRk
Where would you like to receive care? Share your wildest ideas.
I just might take you up on it.
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In honor of International Women’s Day I celebrate the perseverance of one female physician.
“In 1965 my mother, Judith Wible, received her medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. Of 160 graduates, eight were female.
The dean and fellow classmates reminded the “girls” in the class that they were “taking a man’s seat” and they’d never use their degrees.
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I often wonder: Why am I a doctor?
Maybe I want to live in the real world, a world without pretense, a world where people can’t hide behind money or status. Illness exposes our authenticity.
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Doctor revived after suicide. Here's what he says.
