This report is an annual survey of physicians, from across the country, which examines the total wait time faced by patients across 12 medical specialties. The study reports a median wait time — from referral by a general practitioner (ie: a family doctor) to consultation with a specialist, and subsequent receipt of treatment — of 18.3 […]

Richard Pan MD recall effort falls short on vaccine issue Opponents of California’s new mandatory vaccine law have suffered another defeat, failing to force a recall election of the senator who championed the law. In carrying a law requiring vaccines for all school children, Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, drew the animus of parents who believe […]

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Thanks. By Kevin Meyer, CEO, Evolving Excellence Sorry about the absence from Evolving Excellence.  Over the last few weeks I’ve been working through a vision issue that has now been corrected with some successful eye muscle surgery.  In fact, yesterday was the first time I was able to drive.  All is good, and I should […]

My friend and colleague, Dr. Jack Ostrich, who always gives us an enlightening Christmas Story gave us this one. The ICD 9 would have several codes for different types of fracture, for instance, now the ICD 10 has dozens of codes to identify minor differences and what is the type of visit for each type […]

Reviewed by Michael Norris, MD, President I recently re-read The House of God, a satirical novel published in 1978. It details the intern experience of a young doctor at the House of God, patterned after Boston’s Beth Israel Hos­pital. The author is Samuel Shem, pen-name of psychiatrist Dr. Stephen Bergman. Like the novel’s protagonist, Roy […]

Dr. Rosen:       Here we are half way through the presidential primaries like we’ve never seen before.  Have we lost our civility? Is the Republican Party in the early stages of self-destruction? The Republican Party is the third oldest political party in the world formed in the 1850s and sometimes called the party of Lincoln (the […]