There is lots of talk about the “Medical Home.” It is seen by many as one of the ways to turn around our healthcare system. Yet if you ask most physicians, hospital administrators, and politicians, most probably could not explain to you what it is. In fact, the Happy Hospitalist reports that [...]

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Primary care is dead.
Long live primary care.  
Wait a minute, I am in primary care.  I am not dead.  Not yet, at least.
Which reminds me of this:
CART MASTER: Bring out your dead! [clang] Bring out [...]

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Ian Furst of Wait Time & Delayed Care responded to my last post by pointing out the role PCP’s play in poor communication. He is right. I don’t want to sound like a whiner, just pointing the finger at others without noticing those faults I and other PCP’s have. So this post [...]

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The Boston Tea party happened prior to the American Revolution due to a very small tax imposed by the British government on the tea that the colonists were buying. To show outrage over this tax, the colonists dumped tea into Boston harbor.
The major issue for the colonists was that the government imposed taxes on [...]

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Much is being said of the healthcare system during this election year. Solutions to its ills are plentiful - ranging from socializing medicine to allowing “the market to take care of things.” Yet with all of the pundits’ self-confident analysis as to the real problem with our healthcare system, one fact is [...]

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