I am sick of explaining PSA testing to my patients. To get out of the inevitable questions about the pros, cons, science, and politics behind the new recommendations, I made the following handout. Ironically, my laziness motivates me to do a whole bunch of stuff. It kind of feels like I\’m being tricked into doing extra …
One of the big changes recently in my practice has been the addition of preventive care visits for Medicare patients (more on this later). Of the greatest benefits has been the opportunity to talk about advance directives. Because of this opportunity, I have talked about it far more than than ever before. But because I …
It is one of the biggest struggles and least favorite areas of being a doctor, yet it is something I see far too much: patients taking short-acting narcotic pain medications for chronic pain. There is a degree to which it a good thing, allowing people to get regular prescriptions of smaller amounts of pain medication …
