What You Need To Know About Recommending Medical Marijuana
March 18, 2022
Do you hesitate to suggest medical marijuana to your patients because of the confusing legal landscape around it? We help you make sense of the conflicting laws.
Informed Consent and Patient Understanding: Ethical and Legal Considerations for Healthcare Providers
September 30, 2021
What happens when constraints such as a language barrier make it difficult for your patient to understand the risks, benefits, and alternatives to the plan of care?
A Medical Marketing Expert Shares Six Reasons that Online Pharmacies are on the Rise {guest blog!}
January 16, 2018
Katie Jones, a marketing expert, recently assisted in the development of the sites quickdoctor and doctor4u. We picked her brain about the advent of online pharmacies and why they’re currently leaps and bounds better than retail...
3 Things to Know about Concierge Medicine
November 30, 2017
Hate watching your afternoon tick by on a waiting room clock? Disgusted by Susie Sniffles lobbing definitely-contagious sneezes in your direction? Already caught up on your entertainment news? If this describes you (or your patients!), you...
How Your Patients Benefit from 23andMe and Similar Pharmacogenetic Tools
September 14, 2017
September is Healthy Aging Month! Because so much of our health is tied to our genetic makeup, we wrote this post about the importance of knowing and taking detailed family health histories. Read on, and share...
How to Combat Pressure from Patients to Prescribe the Drugs They See on TV
August 17, 2017
If you feel like your TV advertisements increasingly include more prescription drugs, you’re right. Pharmaceutical companies are pouring money into their consumer marketing campaigns, spending $4.5 billion in 2014, $3.5 billion in 2012, and $2.5 billion...
Provider Alert: Mibelas birth control pills recalled, packaging error could cause unexpected pregnancy
July 13, 2017
Providers who have prescribed Mibelas should also reach out to these patients to notify them of the recall. They may also wish to encourage back-up contraception until the patient’s next menstrual cycle and monitoring for unexpected...
Lessons from Vermont: How to Structure a Telemedicine Law to Benefit Patients and Providers
June 24, 2017
Under existing law. Vermont Medicaid and commercial insurers were required to cover telemedicine services if the patient was located at a healthcare facility when receiving the services. The new law changes this, requiring all Vermont insurers...
Medical emergencies at 30,000 feet: What really goes on up there?
May 22, 2017
The frequency of in-flight emergencies – which only afflict about one in six hundred flights – recently made headlines when actress Carrie Fisher suffered an ultimately fatal medical event in the air. In late 2016, Ms....
Canadian osteopathic school under fire for unauthorized medical practice
May 8, 2017
The charges arose after undercover investigators with the physicians’ college posed as patients seeking treatment at an osteopathic school-run clinic. In an interview, CEO school president Phillippe Druelle said that the school’s clinic neither gives injections...