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 nor prescribes pills and that the charges are baseless.
Because Medicaid patients typically have lower incomes (as compared to privately-insured patients), they face more hurdles to obtaining care. Transportation costs to get to-and-from medical appointments, unpaid time off of work, and childcare can be cost-prohibitive and make it impossible to make their appointment.
Anyone who follows Erin or Connor on Twitter knows that we’ve been traveling lately … a lot! Within the month of April, Erin spoke at physical therapy association conferences in Florida, Missouri, and Illinois. We also traveled to California for a legal professional engagement (and a mini-vacation). For those who spent time with us during these travels, or just for those who’re antsing to get to know us better, here’s a few photos from the road.
“The rate of suicide among women employed in any health profession was higher than for women in other occupations; the difference was statistically significant for women employed as nurses or medical practitioners.”
A food desert is a geographic area which lacks fresh fruit, vegetables, and other whole foods. These arise from an absence of grocery stores, farmers’ markets, and healthy food providers, and the United States is full of them (1). This problem is linked to obesity, poor diet choices, and hunger – all things that detrimentally affect the health of our communities and, thus, the conditions that show up in our clients’ clinics each day.
Because of the opioid epidemic that’s drawn national attention, medical schools are now grappling with the need to increase their pain management education. While the American Medical Association has encouraged that pain be dropped as the fifth vital sign (a “solution” that Erin’s been exploring with physical therapists while speaking at recent physical therapy conferences), elected officials are anxious for more active steps.
High-spending hospitals can’t just start spending less while maintaining the same outcomes. Slicing spending without a plan for protecting patient health would spell disaster. To cut spending, they would need to implement strategic and complex approaches that insulate their outcomes from their expenditures – a tricky proposal.
The current 16-hour cap occasionally prevents doctors from seeing a surgery through from beginning to end, which may disrupt patient care continuity, and undermine medical team unity. These – proponents of the 28-hour shift argue – would be ameliorated by the increase.
Boozing before a procedure may impair a patient’s ability to knowingly consent to treatment, which presents liability and legal concerns.
A female ER patient cannot bear the burden of a provider’s biases. It’s crucial that providers – especially those in the emergency or urgent clinical settings – critically examine each patient, without regard for the patient’s gender. But what happens when these biases are unconscious (which they undoubtedly are in most circumstances)?
