Comments on: http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2005/04/defensive-medicine-from-frontlines.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: DrTonyhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2005/04/defensive-medicine-from-frontlines.html#comment-52398 DrTony Mon, 11 Apr 2005 19:11:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2005/04/18123.html#comment-52398 Who, with any exposure to modern medicine, could possibly feel that defensive medicine is a non-factor? Who, with any exposure to modern medicine, could possibly feel that defensive medicine is a non-factor?

]]> By: Carstenhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2005/04/defensive-medicine-from-frontlines.html#comment-52384 Carsten Sat, 09 Apr 2005 21:33:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2005/04/18123.html#comment-52384 * Richard Lafleur's internal medicine group in Derry, NH, now has a "no treat over the phone" policy. "If the patient can't come in, <b>we document referral to the ED," he says.</b><br/><br/>Think that this practice has contributed to the topic of this previous post?<br/>http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2005/03/people-are-dying-because-of-emergency.html<br/><br/>I can't tell you how many times that patients said they came to the ER because their primary "told them to," ven when office were open (but more when PMD offices where closed.) And how many of these patients expected/demanded immediate service, for issues that could have safely been handeled in the office the next day. * Richard Lafleur’s internal medicine group in Derry, NH, now has a “no treat over the phone” policy. “If the patient can’t come in, we document referral to the ED,” he says.

Think that this practice has contributed to the topic of this previous post?
http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2005/03/people-are-dying-because-of-emergency.html

I can’t tell you how many times that patients said they came to the ER because their primary “told them to,” ven when office were open (but more when PMD offices where closed.) And how many of these patients expected/demanded immediate service, for issues that could have safely been handeled in the office the next day.

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