further contribute to the dominant communication tool of the modern world: social media. This new form of communication has been quickly adopted by professionals of all varieties‚ but it has specific implications for physicians and related healthcare professionals. As the ability of a physician to effectively perform their job‚ and for the patient to respect the physician’s advice‚ is dependent on the trust between them‚ at what point does the physician’s private life in terms of social media begin to
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Annotated Bibliography Physician Referal for profit Should physicians have physical therapy services in private practices? Magistro‚ Charles M. “Twenty-Second Mary McMillan Lecture.” Physical Therapy Journal of the American Physical Therapy Association. 67 (1987): 1726-1732 CINAHL Full Text web 23 October 2012 The journal makes reference to a lecture given by Charles M. Magistro‚ Director of Physical Therapy‚ Pomona Valley Community Hospital‚ presented
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Article Critique The article “Oncologists’ strategies and barriers to effective communication about the end of life‚” was written by Leeat Granek‚ Monika K. Krzyzanowska‚ Richard Tozer‚ and Paolo Mazzotta and published in the magazine‚ American Society of Clinical Oncology in July of 2013. Since communicating with patients about the end of life is one of the hardest conversations that doctors face‚ the focus of this article was to explore what kind of communication strategies and barriers that
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job to be perfect more complicated. The expectation to be spot on is more prominent today. Physicians are held to a higher standard now than ever before. However‚ physicians are still human and make mistakes. Medicine is a regulated because of the huge potential to cause harm to the public if an incompetent physician is licensed to practice. To get a license to practice medicine in the United States‚ physicians must met specific predetermined qualifications. These qualifications include graduation for
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most important guideline which applies to all medical workers is patient confidentiality. Patient confidentiality‚ in compliance with HIPAA‚ is beneficial because it keeps the patient’s morale and dignity safe‚ creates trust between the patient and physician‚ and allows the patient to be autonomous. HIPAA‚ or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability‚ was implemented in 1996 by Congress. One can say that HIPAA is probably one
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you. |Name of Report |Brief Description of Contents |Who Signs the Report |Filing Standard | |Face Sheet |Patient identification‚ financial data‚ clinical |Attending physician |30 days following patient | | |information (admitting and final diagnoses) | |discharge | |Advanced Directives |States what patients whishes are
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case of U.S government versus defendant McClatchey involves hospital CEO‚ two physicians‚ and Mr. McClatchy who is a part of the administrative staff at Baptist Medical center. Two physicians involved in the case worked together in a group practice called BVMG that provided care to the nursing homes. In 1984‚ they brought a proposal to the Baptist Medical Center to have them buy the practice and in return physicians were to refer their patients from other hospitals to Baptist medical center. This
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marital status‚ title‚ preferred language‚ ethnicity & race‚ and doctor they are seeing into the computer. Registration also enters the responsible party‚ employer‚ employment status‚ insurance information‚ co-pay amount‚ subscriber’s name‚ referring physician‚ documents the forms signed by the patient (i.e. financial responsibility and verbal release consent) in the notes‚ and an emergency contact. Registration arrives the patient‚ gives the new patient paperwork‚ and collects the co-pay. Next‚ the
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not depend on uncertainty in the physician but on the genuine disagreement in the medical community about a treatment’s value because of a lack of good evidence gleaned from randomized clinical trials” (259). According to critics‚ equipoise is lost when a physician has a slight belief that one treatment is inferior to the other. Freedman disagrees and believes that equipoise is disrupted when there is a large disagreement between health care providers. If a physician has a slight doubt in a treatment
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and report the mother. Questions Should we completely discount this treatment as useless‚ or could there be something gained from it? When should a physician step in to stop a cultural practice? Should the physician be concerned about alienating the mother and other people of her ethnicity from modern medicine? Do you think that the physician should report the mother? RESPONSE Points to consider: Mother’s belief in the cultural practice Boy suffering from bruises but enduring until doctor’s
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