October 14th, 2009 by DrRob in Better Health Network, Opinion
Tags: Ethics, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Primary Care
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There’s a big buzz about primary care being a great thing; and there are a lot of people touting it as a lynchpin of financial reform. I believe this is true. But there is a condition that must be met for any of this true. It must be primary care done well.
The idea of good primary care is an assumption that may not be valid for many PCPs. There are many good PCPs out there, and I believe they constitute the majority, but there are also those who have frustrated and discouraged patients. I think this is mostly due to a payment system that has discouraged everything that primary care should be, but as the discussion goes on there needs to be more than just warm bodies labeled as PCPs.
Here is what I see as the essentials for good primary care: Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Musings of a Distractible Mind*
October 13th, 2009 by Toni Brayer, M.D. in Better Health Network, Opinion
Tags: Burn Out, Family Medicine, Fantasy, Ideal, Medical Practice, Physician, Practice Of Medicine
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Medscape has a physician portal and they asked the question: “Where would you like to practice medicine?” The responses from physicians were varied with lots of complaining and joking like “Dubai”, but this reply from a family medicine doctor got my attention. I think he speaks for many physicians.
- I would like to work in a fantasy world.
- One where I didn’t have to worry about someones economic status. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at EverythingHealth*
October 13th, 2009 by EvanFalchukJD in Better Health Network, Opinion
Tags: Don't Mix, Healthcare reform, James Guest, John Mackey, Medicine, Politics
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Health care reform has become a deeply political subject. And like other subjects that have become political, wading into them can be perilous.
Take two recent examples from the world of business to see what can happen.
In August, John Mackey, the CEO of the Whole Foods supermarket wrote an editorial in the Wall Street Journal on against the proposed health care reforms. From a policy perspective his views were within the mainstream. But from a political perspective he was sharply to the right of his customer base. The result? Whole Foods was hit with organized protests and boycotts. Mackey had greatly tarnished his personal “brand,” if not that if his company.
Another CEO did something similar just a few days ago. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at See First Blog*
October 13th, 2009 by Medgadget in Better Health Network, News
Tags: Brain, Color, Eyes, Neurology, Ophthalmology, Vision
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Even though we intuitively think that a particular color looks the same to different people, researchers from The University of Chicago and Vanderbilt University have uncovered that the brain plays a critical role in color perception. The brain actually assigns colors to objects and with a bit of tinkering one can fool the brain to assign the wrong color to an object being viewed. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Medgadget*
October 13th, 2009 by Berci in Better Health Network, News
Tags: Academic, AcaWiki, Creative Commons, Database, Research, Technology, Wikipedia
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I’ve recently come across AcaWiki, an interesting project focusing on academic research and web 2.0.
Today, representatives from the new nonprofit project AcaWiki announced the opening of their website to the public. AcaWiki’s semantic-wiki based website allows scholars, students, and bloggers to easily post summaries, and discuss academic papers online. All content posted to the site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license.
AcaWiki’s mission is to make academic research more accessible and interactive by creating a “Wikipedia for academic research.” “Cutting-edge research is often locked behind firewalls and therefore lacks impact,” founder Neeru Paharia explains, “AcaWiki turns research hidden in academic journals into something that is more dynamic and accessible to have a greater influence in scholarship, and society.” AcaWiki enables users to easily post and discuss human-readable summaries of academic papers and literature reviews online. AcaWiki also helps users to share and organize summaries through the use of tags and RSS feeds.
*This blog post was originally published at ScienceRoll*
