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American Family Physician December 1, 2000	Curbside Consultation A Daughter Estranged from Her Dying Father...
American Family Physician August 15, 2000 James Hallenbeck	Curbside Consultation When should a physician disclose personal information to a patient, and what do we do when a particular case touches on our own suffering? At a deeper level, how do we deal with our own mortality in caring for the seriously ill and dying?
American Family Physician November 1, 2000 Forrest Lang	Curbside Consultation A Doctor Who Is Blamed for a Patient's Condition...
American Family Physician September 1, 2000 Cheryl Winchell, M.D.	Curbside Consultation What to do when a patient makes inappropriate, seductive advances to you, his/her physician...
American Family Physician April 1, 2002 Forrest Lang	Interviewing When Family Members Are Present The presence of family members at an office visit creates unique opportunities and challenges for the physician while interviewing the patient. The physician must address issues of confidentiality, privacy, and agency...
American Family Physician November 15, 2005 Haas et al.	Management of the Difficult Patient All physicians must care for some patients who are perceived as difficult because of behavioral or emotional aspects that affect their care. Specific communication techniques and greater patient involvement in the process of care may enhance the relationship.
American Family Physician February 15, 2001 Michael P. McGrail	Disability Prevention Principles in the Primary Care Office Assessment of impairment and subsequent disability is best made on the basis of objective data by use of a biopsychosocial model to ensure that the expression of disability does not mask other unaddressed psychologic or social issues...
American Family Physician December 15, 2001 Gregg K. VandeKieft	Breaking Bad News This article presents an overview of issues pertaining to breaking bad news and practical recommendations for clinicians wishing to improve their clinical skills in this area...
Pharmaceutical Executive March 1, 2013 Al Topin	Less Selling, More Time What can happen when pharmaceutical reps focus on the physician-patient conversation?
American Family Physician October 1, 2000	AAFP Core Educational Guidelines Recommended Core Educational Guidelines For Family Practice Residents...
American Family Physician November 15, 2002 William G. Elder	When the Side Effect Is Really the Symptom Several studies have supported the importance of physician-patient relationships on medication compliance in patients with schizophrenia.
American Family Physician July 1, 2000	Letters to the Editor On whether physicians should be 'Bending the Rules to Get a Medication'...
American Family Physician October 1, 2006 Kavan et al.	A Practical Guide to Crisis Management Physicians often are required to assist patients in crisis. An estimated 4% of visits to primary care physicians involve psychiatric or social crises.
Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2012 Al Topin	Doctors' Words No Longer Gospel In the digital age, physicians don't call the shots when it comes to healthcare guidance. Marketers must appeal to multiple sources in seeking ways to garner patient adherence and loyalty.
Pharmaceutical Executive April 1, 2009 Marcee Nelson	Ten Minutes to Connect What women are looking for in their physician's office is less consultation and more conversation.
American Family Physician June 15, 2002 Kathy Soch	Diary from a Week in Practice Asking teenaged patients about sensitive subjects... A resident takes charge of a patient with queit confidence and skill... Never a more important house call... etc.
American Family Physician February 15, 2002 Kathy Soch	Diary from a Week in Practice How quickly the Internet has enhanced our capacity to educate patients... Any student willing to learn from a six-year-old patient will have a successful career in medicine... Handling the obstetrical patients in a jail is quite a challenge... etc.
American Family Physician October 15, 2005 Coleman & Newton	Supporting Self-Management in Patients with Chronic Illness Family physicians can support patient self-management by structuring patient-physician interactions to identify problems from the patient perspective, making office environment changes that remove self-management barriers, and providing education individually and through available community self-management resources.
Managed Care October 2002 Pamela L. Popp	How To -- And Not To -- Disclose Medical Errors to Patients Health care facilities and physician practices must commence development and implementation of a disclosure policy. The policy should include a statement of the need and willingness of the patient and physician to have an open and honest relationship and a constant dialogue.
American Family Physician July 1, 2000 Jennifer Devoe, M.D., M.Phil.	Resident and Student Voice My Experiences at an 'Orphan' School: The Importance of Finding 'Parents'
Pharmaceutical Executive January 1, 2013 Al Topin	The Doctor-Patient Disconnect Doctor-patient conversations aren't always what we think; this basic interaction represents both a problem and an opportunity for today's drug marketers, says the author.
American Family Physician October 15, 2004 Kathy Soch	Diary From a Week in Pactice A family practitioner remembers to put the chart aside and go to the patient for the answers... Refers a patient to a rheumatologist... Changes meds for a patient with advanced dementia... etc.
Bio-IT World March 2006 Charles Firneno	Physician Portals Fill the Gap Multifunctional physician/patient portals can provide insight into value and product performance issues. Such insight can be combined with medical claims and pharmacy data as well as with blinded safety data to provide an organic view of product performance.
American Family Physician January 1, 2001 Gowri Anandarajah & Ellen Hight	Spirituality and Medical Practice Using the HOPE Questions as a Practical Tool for Spiritual Assessment
Managed Care May 2001 Jack McCain	Use of Hospitalists: Another Case of 'May' vs. 'Must' Despite a movement to ban mandatory use of these physicians, their numbers and influence are rising as their roles become better understood...
American Journal of Nursing December 2011 Mary K. Walton	Supporting Family Caregivers: Communicating with Family Caregivers A transformation is under way in acute care, at least in the United States, from provider-centered care to patient- and family-centered care.
American Family Physician October 1, 2000 Ronald Schneeweiss, M.B., Ch.B.	Curbside Consultation What is the role of a consultant in the referral process? What constitutes a "good" referral?
American Journal of Nursing January 2010	Life-Support Interventions at the End of Life: Unintended Consequences Nurses need to be knowledgeable life-support interventions at the end of life and able to communicate what they know about those consequences to patients, family members, and others on the health care team, leading to better decision making at this difficult time.
American Family Physician February 1, 2005 Searight & Gafford	Cultural Diversity at the End of Life: Issues and Guidelines for Family Physicians When considering therapeutic options, physicians should consider that members of many cultural groups prefer that family members, rather than patients, make treatment decisions.
American Family Physician July 15, 2000	AFP 50 Years Ago This feature, titled "Emotional Problems of the Chronically Ill," is reproduced from the December 1950 issue of GP.
American Family Physician October 15, 2001 Kathy Soch	Diary from a Week in Practice Today, the medical student and the mother learned about hand, foot and mouth disease... Practicing medicine is a lot easier when we remember to go to the patients for clues about how to treat them... etc.
Managed Care June 2007 Lola Butcher	What the Devil Is Information Therapy? Welcome to information therapy, the practice of providing more and better information to patients so they can contribute more to their healing.
Managed Care October 2000	New Types of Internet Services Promise Physicians Increased Office Efficiency Several companies are now marketing products and services designed to streamline the management of medical practices...
CIO September 27, 2013	How IT Can Produce Better Patient Care For Dr. Bob Laskowski, president and CEO of Christiana Care Health System, technology means empowering physicians and patients.
Managed Care September 1999 Ed Rabinowitz	Is There a Doctor in the House? The per-visit cost of a house call is high, but used judiciously, this practice can lower overall medical costs -- not to mention provide better care.
American Family Physician July 15, 2001 Marc Tunzi	Can the Patient Decide? Evaluating Patient Capacity in Practice
Managed Care October 2004	AMA to Congress: Make Plans Respond Within 5 Minutes AMA delegates at the organization's annual meeting this year complained that doctors often have to wait more than 20 minutes to get an approval, often with the patient in the examining room.
Managed Care January 2005	Private Practice Physicians Find Dual Role Challenging When it comes to balancing the role of business owner and practicing physician, many private practice doctors are having a tough time of it.
American Family Physician October 15, 2004 Randy K. Ward	Assessment and Management of Personality Disorders Patients with personality disorders are common in primary care settings; caring for them can be difficult. The characteristics of these patients' personalities tend to elicit strong feelings in physicians, lead to the development of problematic physician-patient relationships, and complicate the task of diagnosing and managing medical and psychiatric disorders.
Managed Care August 2001	In Calif., Bonuses Based on Quality, Not Cost Savings Blue Cross of California has decided to move away from the traditional managed care incentive of rewarding physicians for controlling medical costs, and instead will implement a program in which physicians receive bonuses for quality of care and patient satisfaction...
Financial Planning February 1, 2011 Deena Katz	RVU Thinking Think of how much more positive and profitable an impact you can have on yourself and your advisory firm once you redefine how you will function within your practice and examine your relative value units.
Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2013 Ben Comer	Share of Screen: Prioritizing Electronic Health Records Are electronic health records a viable channel for engagement?
American Family Physician October 1, 2000 Kelly W. Jones, Pharm.D. & Supen R. Patel, M.D.	A Family Physician's Guide to Monitoring Methotrexate Although the drug is usually prescribed by a subspecialist, a family physician may assume responsibility for monitoring methotrexate therapy...
Managed Care February 2001 Christopher M. Dezii	Persistence With Drug Therapy A practical approach using administrative claims data...
American Family Physician October 1, 2000 Richard J. Ackermann	End-of-life Care Withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining therapies is ethical and medically appropriate in some circumstances. This article summarizes the American Medical Association's Education for Physicians on End-of-life Care curriculum module on withholding or withdrawing therapy...
American Family Physician February 15, 2005 Kathy Soch	Diary From a Week in Pactice A family practitioner sends a patient back to a nursing home... An annoying letter turned out to be more sensible than onerous... Wonders at prescribing 13 drugs for one patient... etc.
American Family Physician December 15, 2000 James O'Brien	Caring for Caregivers Long-term care given by family members is a central component of our current health care system and, thus, a critical social policy issue...
Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2011 Jennifer Ringler	The Adherence Fight: A TKO? Why does the match against medicines compliance always seem to end in an easy knockout?
Managed Care March 2000	Tracking the Tracker of Health Care's Trends The president of the Medical Group Management Association encourages changes that would bring physician practice and medical record-keeping in step with the times, and decries the lack of medical standards across plans.
Pharmaceutical Executive July 1, 2011 Cabacungan & Clark	New Ways to Gain New Brand Insights If you can learn to understand patient and physician behavior, you are well on your way to strengthening the position of your product.