Prescription Plight: Why some Physicians are Scared to Prescribe Medication
Within the past decade or so, patients are finding themselves visiting physicians with complaints of serious aches and pains, and leaving with a recommendation to take Tylenol every few hours, or to visit a specialist – but specialists are expensive and Tylenol just doesn’t cut it. This typically upsets patients and asserts the belief that their physician believes they are a ‘drug seeker’. In reality, some...
What Expecting Mothers Need to Know About the Zika Virus
As the majority of the nation braves winter temperatures, a mosquito-borne virus that causes birth defects is thriving in the southern parts of the United States. Any place with temperatures of 50-60 degrees is at risk with Florida, Texas, and The Gulf Coast facing the biggest threat. The Zika Virus infects pregnant women and their fetuses, causing a rare neurological condition known as microcephaly. One adamant characteristic of...
4 (Shocking) Things that Affect the Way Patients Perceive Your Practice
People are hard to please, and you know this all to well if you work in the medical field. But if you’re a physician, there are some really shocking and specific things that may be affecting the way patients perceive your practice… as if your job wasn’t hard enough. Here are 4 unexpected ways in which patients may be silently judging you and your practice: 1. Do you have a clean appearance? And no, we don’t mean have you showered...
New Year, New Trends – A 2016 Medical Forecast
With futuristic experiments like brain-to-brain communication, the joining of stem cells from two dads, and a poster child of greedy pharmaceutical companies plastered across the media—I think it’s safe to say that it’s been a progressive and shocking year in medicine. The medical field is constantly progressing, and with a much-anticipated presidential election to take place at the end of the year, it raises even more questions...
Treating our Tots: The Pains of Misdiagnosing Children
As a kid I learned fairly quickly that by feigning a tummyache and heading to the nurse’s office, I could easily skip out of elementary school early with time to spare to catch some premium daytime television. But, my grand-master plan to ditch my 4th grade math exams blew up in my face when my hypochondriac mom actually brought me to the pediatrician where I had to continue spewing my web of lies. (I’m fairly certain I...