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A physician ’s guide to the best way to invest in real estate
This article and podcast are sponsored by CityVest, providing investors with insider access to pre-screened, institutional real estate investments historically unavailable to individuals. Alan, please tell us about your background. My name is Alan Donenfeld, and I’m CEO and founder of CityVest.   Over the past 40 years, I’ve invested billions of dollars in private equity,Read more …A physician’s guide to the best way to invest in real estate originally appeared inKevinMD.com.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 3, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/alan-donenfeld" rel="tag" > Alan Donenfeld < /a > < /span > Tags: Sponsored Practice Management Source Type: blogs

Why I stopped prescribing narcotics, and never looked back
I was never a big prescriber of narcotics.  I grew up “country,” in a tougher world where your parents taught you to accept pain as a part of life.  Pain is how you know you’re still alive. They’d tell me, “if you’re hurtin’ you ain’t dead yet.” You fell down; it was going to hurt.  You learned not to fall.  Twisted your ankle doing something stupid (and it was always while doing something stupid, like jumping off the roof), well we’ll wait a day or two and see how it goes.  Put ice on it, and next time think harder before you jump off the roof.  Just because everyone else was doing it, yada y...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 10, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Physician Pain management Source Type: blogs

4 tips to better communicate with patients
I was listening to CBS This Morning recently as they were interviewing Alan Alda. He was discussing his acting career and being the host of Scientific American’s Frontiers (airs on PBS stations). Alan Alda relayed a personal story of his, having an intestinal blockage while he was filming an episode in Chile. Continue reading ... Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 9, 2013 Category: Family Physicians Tags: Physician Patients Primary care Source Type: blogs

Shared exasperation is cathartic
Fifteen years ago I got an unexpected invitation to write a column for a dermatology newspaper aimed at practicing clinicians. Because dermatology is a concrete field that lends itself to punning, I called the column “Under My Skin.” Continue reading ... Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 30, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Physician Dermatology Source Type: blogs

Exploring the Angelina Jolie effect in breast cancer screening
Up to this point, it had only been a hypothesis: That celebrity firepower can definitively drive consumer health behavior in a certain direction. The case here concerns whether women wish to embark on a genetic hunting expedition to see if they are at high risk of developing a particular disease such as breast cancer, and the motivator in this case is Angelina Jolie. Continue reading ... Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 26, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Conditions Cancer Source Type: blogs

Drug treatment for female sexuality not about equality but profits
We’ve come a long way, baby. Eighty five years ago (October 18, 1929) women were declared “persons” in Canada. On that day women in Canada became eligible to be appointed to the Canadian Senate, which up to that time, had been the sole dominion of men because women were not deemed “persons” under the law.  Five Alberta women, Emily Murphy, Irene Parlby, Louise McKinney, Henrietta Muir Edwards and Nellie Mcclung declared a major victory in being able to say, quite simply: “We are persons too!” Continue reading ... Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputat...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 6, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Meds Medications OB/GYN Source Type: blogs

Getting patients and physicians to ask the right questions
Overtesting — it’s an epidemic threatening consumers of U.S. health care. The notion that testing can be anything but beneficial belies the common assumption that more information is always better, as exemplified by billionaire Mark Cuban’s proclamation earlier this year that he obtains “baseline” quarterly blood tests and encourages others to do so. Knowledge is power, right? Not always. Aside from adding economic strain to our already beleaguered health care system, overtesting can harm patients from the adverse effects of the test itself or as a result of the interventions that ensue. In an effort to curb ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 9, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Physician Cancer Pediatrics Source Type: blogs

Technology ought to  save lives. So why aren’t we using it better?
Technology can be both a blessing and a curse and nowhere is this more painfully evident than in the U.S. health care system. If technology is to be used to improve the patient-doctor relationship, its systems should be designed by physicians who understand these needs, not by regulators and health care conglomerates for whom business objectives are paramount. When it’s all about billing and meeting documentation checkboxes and hospital requirements, clinicians are diverted from their core mission and patient care suffers. A good use of technology would be the creation of a single compatible medical record system that en...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 28, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/alan-kadish" rel="tag" > Alan Kadish, MD < /a > Tags: Tech Health IT Source Type: blogs

America needs to invest in proactive patient outreach now
The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced multiple new threats for physical and mental health. The novel coronavirus itself continues to infect more than 30,000 Americans as we enter the influenza season. The pandemic, economic devastation, and racial reckoning have led to a tripling of emotional distress. Essential preventive services such as cancer screenings,  childhood vaccination, maintenance visits for […]Find jobs at  Careers by KevinMD.com.  Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now.  Learn more.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 3, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/jason-bae-and-alan-glaseroff" rel="tag" > Jason Bae, MD and Alan Glaseroff, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Policy COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Public Health & Source Type: blogs

What is the future of telemedicine?
Now that a pandemic has brought telemedicine into Americans’ consciousness and the health care system, it is timely to ask: How will telemedicine fit into future care? Failing to understand telemedicine ’s transformative capabilities is akin to missing the cell phone or online banking revolutions. I can still hear myself saying dismissively to one of my […]Find jobs at  Careers by KevinMD.com.  Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now.  Learn more.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 9, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/alan-dappen" rel="tag" > Alan Dappen, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Mobile health Primary Care Source Type: blogs

Sorry, I ’m fed up. It’s not professional, but I am.
“It’s experimental.” “It alters your DNA.” “It may cause long-term problems.” “It’s too new, too rushed. I want more time.” I hear this nonsense from patients all day. None are docs, virologists, microbiologists, immunologists, public health officials, medical researchers, nor in tensive care docs. COVID can kill them in a particularly unpleasant way; with 99 percent+Read more …Sorry, I ’m fed up. It’s not professional, but I am. originally appeared inKevinMD.com.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 14, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/alan-johns" rel="tag" > Alan Johns, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs

A memoir of misunderstanding, loss, and learning
An excerpt from More to Life than More: A Memoir of Misunderstanding, Loss, and Learning. The MRIs were illuminated by a lightbox. A small group of us in Dr. Kelly ’s office gathered around the images. We were looking at Lee’s brain. It could have been anyone’s brain up there on the wall. But it wasRead more …A memoir of misunderstanding, loss, and learning originally appeared inKevinMD.com.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 12, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/alan-pesky-and-claudia-aulum" rel="tag" > Alan Pesky  and Claudia Aulum < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Neurology Source Type: blogs

A satirical response to an orthopedic surgeon ’s letter to radiologists
A satirical response to“An open letter to radiologists from a jilted orthopedic surgeon.”“I feel as though there is a deepening rift between our two specialties.” You ask why the chasm has widened between our specialties. Well, maybe if you paid attention to me, you’d know. I’m an introverted radiologist, you’re a domineering surgeon,Read more …A satirical response to an orthopedic surgeon’s letter to radiologists originally appeared inKevinMD.com.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 27, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/alan-weissman" rel="tag" > Alan Weissman, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Radiology Source Type: blogs

Breaking the silence: a doctor ’ s plea for clarity in end-of-life care
Six years ago, I met a man who was 93 years old. I sat down to listen to him, something we physicians don’t do as often as we should in the long-term care setting. “I want you to treat me like I’m 73,” he said, “What do you mean?” I asked. “I don’t want to Read more… Breaking the silence: a doctor’s plea for clarity in end-of-life care originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 4, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Physician Critical Care Hospital-Based Medicine Source Type: blogs

Unveiling the hidden damage: the secretive world of medical boards
For years, I have tried to interest journalists in the machinations of state medical boards, but all we ever see in the media are notices of doctors sanctioned by state boards. Unfortunately, when journalists report only on sanctioned physicians, the public has little understanding of how medical boards really function. So, I am delighted to Read more… Unveiling the hidden damage: the secretive world of medical boards originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 17, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs