primary care
A front-page NY Times article about a Maryland doctor, “Family Physician Can’t Give Away Solo Practice” on page 1 April 23, 2011, explores the decline of personalized solo practice and acknowledges that “a centuries-old intimacy between doctor and patient” is being lost. Dr. Kanner comments in letter to editor.
We all need a health care agent to speak for us if we are incapacitated while critical decisions must be made about our care, for example, in an ICU. Your doctor discusses some of the many issues surrounding health care agents and provides a standard health care proxy form used to appoint the agent.
Dr. Kanner loves medical boredom because then the patient is almost always healthy. Interesting cases are intellectually fascinating but may have bad outcomes. Which would you prefer?
Brief explanation of the medical home concept, improved service to members, fruit donations by the Orchard Health Care orchard, 2011 membership fees, and a poignant Thanksgiving story.
A well-functioning heart and blood vessels are central to your overall health and longevity. Many major diseases, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, and cigarette smoking have severe adverse effects on those organs. And normal aging produces slow but real damage to those vital organs. What can your physicians do to help you preserve healthy cardiovascular function for…
Ginkgo biloba was just shown to be ineffective to prevent cognitive decline in a large, randomized and controlled trial of over 3000 older adults followed for over 6 years in an NIH-sponsored multi-center study published in JAMA. Applying critical evaluation to all purported therapies.
The Mass Dept. of Public Health just sent us sufficient supplies and authorization to offer the H1N1 to everyone, not just high risk patients. Clearly this is a day late and a dollar short. Nevertheless, we will have flu clinics in the office this week and next week. We encourage you to come.
We will receive our first shipment of H1N1 vaccine by Monday. The staff is calling everyone we believe to be higher risk to get their shot early next week. More vaccine should arrive weekly so everyone who wants H1N1 vaccine should be able to get it over the next 3 weeks. At last.
A preventive medicine task force just suggested that women not have mammograms in their 40’s and should only be screened every two years after that. And don’t bother with breast self-exam or your doctor’s breast exam. And the gynecologists’ task force declared that no women should have Pap smears before age 21 and less frequently thereafter. What to make of this? Ask your doctor, they say. How do we make sense of this?
We have a short break in seasonal flu shot availability because production was stopped to allow conversion to H1N1. Full supplies should arrive in November, in plenty of time for the normal flu that starts in late December.
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