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Drug Reps Do Not Inform MDs About Dangerous Drug Side Effects
4/29/2013 11:19:15 AM - An article published in the April issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine documented that drug reps fail to inform MDs about dangerous side effects in 59% of cases. Yet these MDs still repor...
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MRIs Show MDs Can Feel Patients' Pain
4/9/2013 10:20:34 PM - Could it be that it is the relationship between the doctor and patient that does the healing rather than the drugs, surgeries, and technologies they rely on? You betcha! A study published in the Janua...
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Should MDs be Paid for Performance?
8/20/2012 11:21:44 PM - Pay-for-performance schemes financially reward MDs for hitting special numerical targets such as hospital stay, readmissions, use of certain drugs, and cost controls. An article in the August issue of...
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Should MDs Prescribe Cognitive Enhancers so Students can Get Better Grades
1/7/2013 10:48:43 PM - According to an article published in the December 2012 issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, MDs should not prescribe cognitive enhancers to healthy people to enhance concentration, memor...
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Many MDs Believe they Overtreat by Len Saputo, MD
10/4/2011 10:06:35 PM - A survey of US primary care MD's revealed that 42% believe they administer too much medical treatment. The reasons are related to malpractice concerns, clinical performance measures, inadequate time w...
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MDs admit being unqualified to deal with obesity
1/13/2013 11:26:26 PM - An article In the December 2012 issue of the British Medical Journal reports that 56% of MDs felt they could not help obese people lose weight. They felt that measuring the body mass index (BMI) and p...
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MDs Fail to Promote Prevention
4/26/2012 11:37:09 PM - A Bastyr University study showed that patients with type 2 diabetes who were being followed by MDs did better in controlling blood sugar levels when they received naturopathic care over 6 months. This...
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MDs Too Quick to Reach for Prescription Pads by Len Saputo, MD
11/4/2011 12:44:16 AM - US doctors are too quick to reach for their prescription pads according to the Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice. Half of all Americans took at least one prescription drug during the pre...
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MDs Over-Prescribe Tests They Profit From by Len Saputo, MD
11/16/2011 9:01:37 PM - Financial reimbursement and ownership of medical testing equipment leads to over-prescribing of these tests. These types of conflict of interest extend to ownership of MRI and CT facilities, surgicent...
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Are Drug Warning Labels Preventing Side Effects?
7/9/2012 11:29:31 PM - Many people ignore prescription drug warning labels according to a study published in the June 2012 issue of the Public Library of Science online journal. There are 15 million drug errors annually in ...
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Should Patients Have Access to Their Medical Records? by Len Saputo, MD
12/27/2011 10:43:10 PM - Most patients want access to their medical records including the doctor's notes according to an article published in the December issue of Annals of Internal Medicine. In this study, called OpenNotes,...
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The High Cost of Defensive Medicine
2/14/2012 10:43:19 AM - You can't really blame MDs for practicing defensively when they are trying to do the best job they possibly can for their patients and they don't want to be involved in a malpractice case if they make...
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Patients Rarely Told of Medication Errors in the Hospital
2/11/2013 11:07:02 PM - According to an article in the January 2013 issue of Critical Care Medicine, patients and their families are rarely told when there is a medication error in the hospital. Eight hundred and forty thous...
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Doctors Sue Aetna for Coverage Denials
7/8/2012 11:16:39 PM - Thousands of doctors, through the Los Angeles County Medical Association and the California Medical Association are suing Aetna Insurance Company for routinely denying patients access to out-of-networ...
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Should Doctors Follow their Intuition?
10/17/2012 11:01:32 AM - The October 10, 2012 issue of the British Medical Journal reported that MD gut feelings should be seriously considered because they have valuable diagnostic value. It is interesting that the validity ...
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