Beat Physician BurnoutDike Drummond MD is an expert in stress management and burnout prevention for physicians. He is a high energy speaker, trainer, and consultant on how to create physician engagement, healthy life balance and a physician friendly workplace. He is CEO of TheHappyMD.com where his newsletter reaches doctors in 63 countries around the world. Dr. Drummond is the creator of the Burnout Prevention Video Training Series and the 1 Minute Mindfulness Program for Physicians.
In the December 14, 2009 issue of The New Yorker magazine, Atul Gawande observed, “Cost is the specter haunting healthcare reform.”
Now that President Obama has signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 into law (signed March 23, 2010), what will happen?
Physical clues to allergic rhinitis include the allergic crease on the dorsum of the nose and allergic "shiners" or periorbital ecchymosis.
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For the past 7 years, a 32-year-old African-American man had multiple nonpruritic scalp abscesses. He also reported intermittent fever and joint pain. The abscesses had been drained on many occasions, and he had received several antibiotics, although no organisms had been isolated. Collagen vascular disease, SAPHO syndrome (synovitis, acne, pustulosis, hyperostosis, osteitis), discoid lupus, and cutaneous sarcoid had been ruled out. During the past 7 years, he had been treated with prednisone, methotrexate, and hydroxychloroquine without any response.
Many elderly patients have fragile, atrophic skin.
Poor adherence is a problem we all confront regularly.
For my patients who use nasal spray, I advise them to use the right hand to spray into the left nostril and the left hand to spray into the right nostril.
Advise runners to write the date they start wearing a pair of running shoes on the underside of the tongue, with a permanent marker.