My Father and Hospitalists

My Father and Hospitalists

Have you or a loved one been admitted to the hospital lately? If so, did you notice that your own personal physician didn’t come to visit you? Did you notice that you were assigned a “hospitalist"? Welcome to the new world of Obamacare. In order to cut healthcare spending, hospitals and large physician groups are combining to drastically expand the Accountable Care Organizations. To maximize profits, hospitals are employing more physicians as hospitalists and subsequently squeezing out your personal doctor.

Hospitalists, PCPs bad at communication and its hurting patient care

We wish to focus on one glaring problem occurring in hospitals that is relatively easy to fix and whose resolution could improve outcomes. Currently, as many hospitals close their doors to primary care physicians (PCPs) and instead rely on hospitalists, there often is a lack of communication between these doctors that can lead directly to costly mistreatment. 

The Problem with the Hospitalist System

From a doctor's perspective, the major problem with the Hospitalist system is a lack of communication between the Hospitalist and the patient's primary-care doctor.   These doctors need to get to know each other and communicate regularly about the patient, especially if there are difficult problems or life-altering decisions to be made such as DNR status.  In 20 years, I have never seen a hospitalist call a primary-care doctor or vice versa. 

Should We Be Doing More Autopsies? YES!!!!!!!!!

Should We Be Doing More Autopsies?

'Much more can be learned from the dead'

Autopsies have been an important part of medical education and practice, but over the last 50 years they've been performed far less frequently -- and doctors may be missing out on useful information, according to a new perspective in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Sepsis discovery could lead to new inflammation treatment

MANHASSET, N.Y., Nov. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research Professor Ping Wang, MD, and colleagues have discovered a new way to reduce sepsis inflammation, according to a paper published in the latest EMBO Reports.

New blood test marks progress in battle against sepsis

A new blood test could save lives in the treatment of sepsis. It assesses five markers in the blood to predict who is at low, medium, and high risk of death. With this knowledge, doctors could start treating the serious condition much earlier and with more precision.

World Medical Association re-affirms its opposition to euthanasia and assisted suicide-Declaration

WMA DECLARATION ON EUTHANASIA AND PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE

Adopted by the 70th WMA General Assembly, Tbilisi, Georgia, October 2019

The WMA reiterates its strong commitment to the principles of medical ethics and that utmost respect has to be maintained for human life. Therefore, the WMA is firmly opposed to euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide.