Saturday reading

Lots of interesting stories to start your long weekend.

Advice for patients who want to buy medications online and limiting physicians’ liability:

Limit your involvement when it comes to Internet pharmaceutical purchases. Serve only as an information resource for your patients. Give them information from the FDA about the risks of getting drugs through the Internet, then let them make informed decisions.

Lessons in residency that don’t always apply to the real-world.

Be wary about criticizing another physician’s care before reviewing the patient’s medical record.

The number of Americans without health insurance? 45 million and rising.

We’re not alone in battling low reimbursement for physicians. Take a look at Japan.

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  • Anonymous

    As far as Physicians not wanting to criticize another physicians care, that might just be one of your biggest problems in this whole malpractice and increasing malpractice ins. rates. Doctors can’t have it all ways…There will be no resolve in this problem until physicians are willing to police their own.
    Until they are willing to get BAD doctors out of their profession then how can they have hope that this nightmare will go away.

    So, you see a patient that you know another Dr. has caused harm to. Instead of voicing that and taking actions against them you want to protect all the boys of the choir. Even if by doing so, your silence goes against your number one rule of “CAUSE NO HARM?”

    MAKES NO SENSE!

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