Articles Tagged ‘fear’
Law & Politics | By April 13, 2008 | By JC, MD | 5 Comments
Medicine and the Law - Part 1: Contract and Consent
I’ve decided to go ahead and post a series on Medicine and the Law. One of the things I hear about so often from both sides of the patient-physician relationship is the fear and threat of legal action. Typically physicians are paranoid of being sued. They practice defensive medicine and go out of their way to write copious notes, dictate exhaustive patient summaries and operative reports. For the practicing physician, all the documentation, paperwork, and reporting is simply exhausting. Sometimes all of the documentation takes up way more time and energy than the actual exam or procedure. It is a sad state of affairs when 90% of the time allocated to a patient is dedicated to documentation rather than with actual time with the patient. Read more →
- Brain Damage, Part V: Advanced Recovery, Reclaiming Splinter Skills
- Our Caveman Way of Avoiding Danger
- Gooble Gobble, One of Us, ADD, One of Us
Since you’re pretty much on your own once they tell you you’re recovered, I’m dedicating this topic to everyone who is supposedly recovered, but who do not have functional lives yet. If this isn’t you, please keep reading, because it’s bound to be someone you know sooner... Read more →
You know the scenario. You are standing at a family get together lost in thought about a stressful situation in your life when a family member approaches and with a worried tone asks, “What’s wrong?” Did you know that subconsciously they are reading the facial signals you are displaying?... Read more →
I keep hearing that all our children are being diagnosed ADD. Perhaps this comes from our fear of being maligned, diagnosed, and forced to conform to some dystopian, fascist mind control future in the making. Or perhaps it’s fueled by our morbid fascination with subcultures of freaks. Hence, this... Read more →
Saturday, August 30, 2008
- The Anti-Psychiatry Movement
- Vaccines - A Two-Edged Sword
- Should Doctors Have Guns?
- Extremist Muslim Doctors Do More Than Heal
- Woman Comparable to Men in Domestic Violence: Stereotypes and their Consequences
- The Bipolar Trend
- The Implications of Implanted Chips
- Anti-Smoking Campaign Doesn't Mess Around
- The Biopsychosocial Model of Health & Illness
- Unhinging from Theory: Autism and Opinions
- God And Religion: Is It All In Our Heads?
- The Science of Brain Freeze
- Encephalon, Thirty-Third Edition
- Meditation for Troubled Minds: Can the Mind Heal the Mind?
- Mind-Body: We Want Evidence, Don't We?
- Is War A Psychosis?
- Usually It's Cheaper to Pay Than to Go To Court
- Acknowledging Vaccination Concerns
- Integrating Schizophrenia Management
- Rabies Virus Helps Deliver Drugs into the Brain
- When the Doctor is the Patient
- The Gift of Life - Part 2
- Drugs and Pharmacology, Tenth Edition
- Are Drug Reps Really Necessary?
- Can Drug Therapy Prevent Parkinson’s Disease?
- Medicine and the Law - Part 6: Third Party Liability
- Go For The Gold, It May Prolong Your Life
- When It Comes to Health, Adults Shortchange Kids
- Is Seeing Into the Future More Than an Optical Illusion?
- Malignant Medicine
- Putting an End to Medicare Fraud
- The Gift of Life - Part 1
- Brain Blogging, Thirty-Eight Edition
- The Mental Health of our Military
- Will Money Improve NYC’s Health?
- Culturally Competent Care - Are Health Care Providers Doing Enough?
- Conflicts of Interest Among Physicians II
- How To Talk To Kids About Sex
- Sleep and Consciousness - A Dynamic State of Being
- HIV-Positive? Start Meditating
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- Please reread the article. The chip contains a 16 digit ID number, the equivale...
- Are Drug Reps Really Necessary?
No.
But I sure do miss the great food we u...
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Q: Are people merely misinformed?
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- To the God who heals:
Dear God,
I know lots of people who could...
- Hi JR,
I don't have any children to influence, so the only one I'm currently ...
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