Search results for "Practice of medicine"
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond about cost-cutting measures.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/04/letters.htm
1 Apr 2011
Off-service note from ACP's outgoing president
ACP has made tremendous strides in the past 100 years, and must make many more in the next 100 in order to achieve its goals of caring for patients in an effective health care environment.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/04/presidents.htm
1 Apr 2011
Reclaiming who we are: Internal medicine's central role
Internists must use their admirable heritage to provide the best care for patients and reclaim internal medicine's central role in delivering health care.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/05/presidents.htm
1 May 2011
Time away from the office an investment in the time spent in it
Politicians have markedly disparate visions for the government's role in health care. The outcomes of the 2012 elections will have an impact on what eventually happens.A recap of events at Internal Medicine 2011 provide insights into clinical knowledge and the problems facing internal medicine.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/06/presidents.htm
1 Jun 2011
Lawmakers try to ‘script’ what doctors say
State legislatures are drafting laws that would mandate what doctors tell their patients about culturally controversial topics such as abortion or guns in the home, or even purely clinical issues such as breast cancer and tissue density. How involved should politicians be in the exam room?.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2012/01/politics.htm
1 Jan 2012
The politics of health care
What could state legislation mean to physicians as they discuss culturally controversial but clinically important issues with patients?.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2012/01/editors.htm
1 Jan 2012
Medical professionalism faces new challenges, opportunities
Ten years later, a physician charter challenges doctors to accept commitments to professional competence, improved quality and access to care, and professionalism in conduct.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2012/01/presidents.htm
1 Jan 2012
Scribes: A write way and a wrong way
Taking a patient's history is considered an intimate part of the exam process, one long-cherished by traditionally minded physicians. Like much of the traditional practice of medicine, it's facing a new model for efficiency. Should doctors delegate the dictation?.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2012/02/scribes.htm
1 Feb 2012
Global outlook toward improving America's health care system
The College's educational programs, products and services are recognized and valued internationally, even as the College takes on a decidedly global membership. More than 30% of the College's members are international medical graduates.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2012/02/presidents.htm
1 Feb 2012
The February issue is online and coming to your mailbox
February's issue of ACP Internist looks at clinical and practice management issues.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2012/02/07/7.htm
7 Feb 2012