Recently I completed the Commonwealth Fund’s 2015 International Survey of Primary Care Doctors. They wanted to know what I thought about our health system, if fundamentally it worked or needed to be better. They asked questions about my satisfaction with practicing medicine, the quality of care my patients receive, and my experiences with electronic medical records.…
The doctor-patient relationship is under threat from state laws that try to shape what we can and can’t do for our patients. Many state legislatures are proposing laws that limit the questions doctors can ask patients in our confidential clinic visits. Do you smoke? Drink soda? Exercise? Do drugs? Is there a gun in the…
Who am I? So begins the zero-to-hero blog challenge. Hope you enjoy my monthlong January jumpstart to master blogging basics! Let’s start with my hyphenated professional identity. I am a physician-writer-educator-advocate. And person. I am a family physician working two days a week in a federally qualified health center on Chicago’s South Side, and just finished…
The future of student run free clinics Please click this link to read my monthly post for the Doctors for America health policy blog Progress Notes. This month, I wrote about the ethics of student run free clinics–who will be served when the impoverished uninsured get health insurance through expanded Medicaid? Will free clinics be…
Prevention Not Prescription 