Practice Management

  • Disparities in cardiovascular care: Past, present, and solutions
    Quentin R. Youmans, MD, Lindsey Hastings-Spaine, MD, Oluseyi Princewill, MD, MPH, Titilayo Shobayo, BS and Ike S. Okwuosa, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2019, 86 (9) 621-632; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.18088

    Cardiovascular disease makes no distinction in race, sex, age, or socioeconomic status, and neither should clinicians.

  • Primary care: Practice meets technology
    Cristina I. Pravia, MD, FACP, MBA and Yvonne M. Diaz, MD, FACP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine August 2019, 86 (8) 525-528; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.18122

    Technology has infiltrated all parts of our lives. Physicians need to adapt and adjust.

  • Running in place: The uncertain future of primary care internal medicine
    Craig Nielsen, MD, FACP and Pelin Batur, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine August 2019, 86 (8) 530-534; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.19075

    If we don’t demand change, who will be there to take care of us when we grow old?

  • Can a humanities background prevent physician burnout?
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2019, 86 (4) 225-226; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86b.04019

    Osler urged physicians to study the humanities. Can it prevent professional dissatisfaction and burnout?

  • The old humanities and the new science at 100: Osler’s enduring message
    Salvatore Mangione, MD and Marc J. Kahn, MD, MBA, MACP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2019, 86 (4) 232-235; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.19019

    One hundred years after his death, what can Osler teach the high-tech physician of today?

  • Telemedicine: Past, present, and future
    Jamal H. Mahar, MD, Gregory J. Rosencrance, MD and Peter A. Rasmussen, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2018, 85 (12) 938-942; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17062

    Low reimbursement, licensing, practice issues limit its use.

  • Obesity: Are shared medical appointments part of the answer?
    Kelly Shibuya, BS, Kevin M. Pantalone, DO, ECNU, FACE and Bartolome Burguera, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2018, 85 (9) 699-706; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.18006

    Shared medical appointments allow multiple patients to be managed together by a multidisciplinary team.

  • Training physician leaders to save the health system… and us
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2018, 85 (6) 427-428; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85b.06018

    The success of the health system and the emotional well-being and clinical skills of its physicians are clearly interrelated.

  • High users of healthcare: Strategies to improve care, reduce costs
    Neil Siekman, MD and Rick Hilger, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2018, 85 (1) 25-31; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.16082

    A minority of patients called “high users” consume a lot of healthcare, especially in the emergency department. But therein lies an opportunity.

  • A New Year’s transition and looking forward
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2018, 85 (1) 6-7; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85b.01018

    Time to take stock of advances in—and obstacles to—the delivery of quality healthcare.

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