…Are you paying more for prescription drugs? The stats say that you probably are. I recently wrote an article about the prescription drug industry. Through my research, I learned that nearly 7 in 10 Americans are on at least one
Category Archives: Doctors
Type 1 & Type 2 Diabetes: Doctors Using Technology to Help People With Diabetes
An online survey from Consumer Reports showed that the top complaint among 660 surveyed doctors was the failure of patients to follow advice or treatment recommendations.
Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes can be effectively managed in most patients through …
Rural Regions Pay Doctors More Than Urban Areas
By Brenda Neugent
New research finds that doctors in rural areas such as the American West are paid more than physicians in highly competitive regions such as Boston or San Francisco.
According to the San Francisco-based startup Doximity, a networking …
Emails Between Doctors And Patients On The Rise
More patients and doctors are communicating by email than they were just over a decade ago, but numbers following the growth spurt have essentially flat-lined, according to research,
Dr. Bradley H. Crotty of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard …
Reducing Communication Barriers
Latino children are one of the most overweight groups in the U.S. A recent study has attempted to explain the reasons for this phenomenon. Some researchers believe that Latino children and their families are not getting proper weight loss information …
U.S. Trails Two Dozen Other Nations In Physicians Per Capita
Two dozen other countries top the United States when it comes to having enough doctors to go around.
According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the U.S. ranks 25th internationally in physician count per capita, with only 2.5 …
Media May Influence Decisions Doctors Make
Few of us are immune to media influence, and doctors are no exception.
According to the results of a new study, news coverage and advertising – especially when brought to a doctor’s attention by a patient – does play a …
Good Doctor-Patient Communication Improves Health Outcomes
Although some Continuing Medical Education (CME) is aimed at helping doctors improve communication skills, more doctors should get involved.
That was the conclusion of some panelists at a recent Institute of Medicine workshop on patient engagement who agreed on the …
Hear Me, Doctor
During my 14 years with type 1 diabetes and my time spent interacting with the diabetes online community, I constantly hear the same theme: Doctors aren’t listening to their patients, and their bedside manners are deteriorating. Every day, it seems, …
The Doctor says,
“You have diabetes.” Have you just heard these words? Or maybe you recently heard it about your son or daughter. The oxygen rushes out of your body. A knot forms in your stomach. “What now?”
I know that feeling. I …
