Medicare is now reimbursing end of life care in the form of advance care planning.  The question is: are doctors ready to have serious end of life conversations with their patients? A recent poll commissioned by The John… Read More

One of the themes of this blog has been to critique the idea that “physician engagement” can be achieved through management techniques alone. As Donald Milliken writes in the Canadian Medical Association Journal “… ‘physician engagement’ can sometimes seem… Read More

In our last blog we explored the New Guard of medicine analyzed in the 2014 Survey of America’s Physicians. One of the more interesting findings of the survey is that this New Guard, which tends to be younger,… Read More

Stories, like the one in Kaiser Health News point out that insurance companies are paying more attention to the primary care doctors: “While much attention has focused on expanded coverage and online insurance bazaars, policymakers’ bigger challenge is… Read More