It\’s a big job, but it\’s sure a lot easier when I have my nurses and my patients rooting for me and helping me achieve this goal. Really. I cannot express just how much better life is in this practice than it was in my old one. From what I\’ve heard, things are just getting worse in that world.
It\’s my mission to help pave a road to a better way. I am grateful to have not only nurses on my side, but patients joining in this mission.
The idea of a 'balance' to be disturbed flies in the face of the reality easily seen in this world: few people get through the year without getting sick, and none ultimately avoid getting some terminal condition. In short, fighting sickness is always a losing game.
In case you missed my last post (some may consider it a blessing, like missing the season premiere of \”Jenny McCarthy, the science Gal\”), this is the star of the show. His name is \”Chuck.\” Why, many may ask do I use \”quotes\” when I use the name \”Chuck.\” To this, I respond, that it\’s …
A patient calls or emails me with a problem. I talk with them over the course of a few days, using whatever form of communication works best. Eventually, they need to come to the office to be seen – either for something needing to be done in-person (examination, procedure, or lab test), or because of …
I remember going to see the movie \”Oliver\” in the theater when I was a kid. Since this was my first movie in a theater, my mom made me a treat: a bag full of raisins and chocolate chips (Raisinets for Dutch people) and sent me there with my sister. It was a fine film, …
It\’s been a month since I started my new practice. We are up to nearly 150 patients now, and aside from the cost to renovate my building, our revenue has already surpassed our spending. The reason this is possible is that a cash-pay practice in which 100% of income is paid up front has an …
I was talking to a patient a few days ago who was raving about a local grocery store. \”They get it,\” she said. \”They understand how to take care of their customers.\” It made me think about how far medicine has drifted away from the same idea. Ironically, despite the fact that our \”customers\” (people …
Health care is broken. Badly broken. I was making a list of areas in which the system is broken (not human error, but system error), and I got up to 53 in one sitting. When I tweeted this, a good friend and fellow blogger wondered why I didn\’t start a list of things that are …
One of the main things driving me back to blogging is madness. While I can’t be sure that I am not overcome by madness, it is not my own of madness I am referring to. Well, no, I am mad, but not mad in the way that I hear Elvis whispering in my ear or …
