Comments on: Breaking the Doctor-Patient Relationship (Limiting Individual Prerogatives, Part 3)

By: primary care physicians at risk, doctors packing heat

primary care physicians at risk, doctors packing heat — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:26:24 +0000

[...] at the bedside. This new ethical obligation officially drives a stake into the heart of the classic doctor-patient relationship, and is an abject admission that the practice of medicine no longer constitutes a real [...]

By: PCPs: We Are The Borg. Prepare To Be Assimilated.

PCPs: We Are The Borg. Prepare To Be Assimilated. — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:16:14 +0000

[...] profession’s real moral obligation, which is to your patients – you had better act now, before it becomes a federal crime to do so. « Why We Still See Sudden Death in Young Athletes You can leave a [...]

By: Retainer medicine and medical students « The Notwithstanding Blog

Retainer medicine and medical students « The Notwithstanding Blog — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:59:14 +0000

[...] While it’s too early to talk meaningfully about a specialty decision (though you’re more than welcome to start a betting pool…) it’s not too early for me to say this: the only way I would seriously consider paediatrics, general internal medicine, or family practice residency in the US is if the retainer model of practice is still viable when it comes time to decide (i.e. hasn’t been banned by law or marginalized by organized medicine). [...]