Practice Management
- Benefits and challenges of caring for international patients
Improving the quality of care and the clinical experience for both providers and patients.
- Seeking medical care abroad: A challenge to empathy
Empathy for international patients is not merely a matter of kindness, it is central to healing.
- Breaking the pain contract: A better controlled-substance agreement for patients on chronic opioid therapy
Common limitations of current pain treatment “contracts,” and strategies to improve them.
- Information management for clinicians
How to create a personalized stream of relevant information that can be saved so that it is readily accessible.
- LGBT care: There has been progress
A tectonic shift has taken place in how we perceive and interact with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.
- Best practices in LGBT care: A guide for primary care physicians
Myths, disparities, and a step-by-step approach to the care of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender patients.
- The evolution of office notes and the electronic medical record: The CAPS note
CAPS–concern, assessment, plan, and supporting data–improves on the SOAP format.
- Dietary and medical management of recurrent nephrolithiasis
Some interventions, such as increasing fl uid intake, apply to all patients, while some apply to those with specifi c types of stones.
- When we need to remember that it is more than a job
It is the nature of our engagement with our patients and our colleagues that makes what we do more than a job.
- It is not the critic’s voice that should count
Lawsuits often confront physicians with incidental imperfections in the care they provided or with errors in their documentation.