Practice Management
- The search for precision
The day may come soon when we get EMR alerts if we try to prescribe certain drugs to patients with certain gene variants.
- Pharmacogenomics: An evolving clinical tool for precision medicine
More than 90% of patients are thought to carry at least 1 genetic variant that should prompt a change in dosing or medication.
- Disparities in cardiovascular care: Past, present, and solutions
Cardiovascular disease makes no distinction in race, sex, age, or socioeconomic status, and neither should clinicians.
- Primary care: Practice meets technology
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
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?
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
One hundred years after his death, what can Osler teach the high-tech physician of today?
- Telemedicine: Past, present, and future
Low reimbursement, licensing, practice issues limit its use.
- Obesity: Are shared medical appointments part of the answer?
Shared medical appointments allow multiple patients to be managed together by a multidisciplinary team.
- Training physician leaders to save the health system… and us
The success of the health system and the emotional well-being and clinical skills of its physicians are clearly interrelated.