By Elizabeth Lee Vliet, MD The Democrats are the bullies in the healthcare sandbox, assisted by the AMA, AARP and unions who stand to gain ...
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Following is a letter sent this morning by American Academy of Family Physicians Board Chair Ted Epperly, MD, to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Dear Speaker ...
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AMA Calls on Congress to Permanently Fix Medicare Physician Payment Formula By J. James Rohack, M.D. President, American Medical Association Medicare’s final 2010 payment rule ...
Read More »More & More Tech Stuff for Docs; Want Your Own Event?
You can’t go very far without hearing or reading about new technologies that benefit medicine and physicians. Entire hospital systems are devoting themselves to particular ...
Read More »EMR-Stimulus Survey
Are more doctors buying electronic medical records than before? Or, has the Stimulus bill only reinvigorated research, creating a growing pool of tire kickers? This ...
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Patients are online more than ever. They go online before and after their doctor visit and will come into the office armed with information and ...
Read More »Boundary Issues: A Doctor With MS Confides In Her Patient
Anne Brewster, a Boston internist, has multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system. One day, she decided to risk disclosing something about ...
Read More »AMAfluhelp.org — The Nation's First Web-Based Flu Health Assessment Tool for Patients and Docs
Free Flu Web site Allows Patients to Assess Symptoms Quickly, Interact with Their Physician, and Receive Advice on When to Return to Work or School ...
Read More »Family Physicians Extremely Disappointed With Failure of S. 1776
By Lori Heim, MD, President American Academy of Family Physicians The American Academy of Family Physicians and its more than 94,600 members are extremely disappointed that ...
Read More »AMA Releases 22 New “Patient Access Hot Spots” Nationwide – Medicare Cuts To Physicians Will Make Problem Worse
Permanent Repeal of Medicare Physician Payment Formula Essential WASHINGTON – Highlighting the impact of looming Medicare cuts on seniors’ access and choice of physician, the ...
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