Belly pain is the emergency room doctor’s booby prize. Invariably, care involves dealing with bodily fluids, internal exams …
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The Medical Insider: Are We Too Impatient to Wait for Care?
Spend time in a busy emergency room and you’ll hear a recurrent theme among the harried staff: patients in the U.S. want their health care like they want their food — served up speedily and made “your way.” It’s a phenomenon …
The Medical Insider: Helping Patients Google Symptoms
We’ve all done it. We’ve typed symptoms like “tingling, left arm” into Google, WebMD or any one of the myriad encyclopedic medical resources available on the Internet, before going to the doctor for an actual diagnosis. (Is it a …
The Medical Insider: Why More Data Doesn’t Mean Better Care
The Medical Insider is a weekly column from Dr. Zachary F. Meisel, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar and an emergency physician at the University of Pennsylvania. He will cover the medical industry, patient …