As a result, estate planning attorneys are seeing their work dry up and they are reinventing themselves in other practice areas, such as helping physicians comply with laws affecting them.
Some providers' groups, such as the Hill Physicians Group in the Bay Area, are starting to do this.
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With head-up displays, such as Google Glass, physicians can simplify what they review during patient encounters.
Because radiation oncologists do not diagnose cancer, they rely on referring physicians such as surgeons, urologists and gynecologists.
It is comforting to know that physicians such as yourself are still here, especially in the ER, who look for and identify those who may indeed be shopping, seeking, or otherwise abusing controlled substances.
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Primary-care doctors, such as pediatricians and family physicians, often make less than half of what top-paid specialists like orthopedic surgeons earn, and the idea of changing how they are paid has been around for years.
Within the historic Royal Colleges, such as those of surgeons or physicians, excellent practice is celebrated, and proper standards are set, pushed and protected.
What proves so interesting is that a conversation with the Queen of Pentacles about business development closely mirrors our conversations with a great many professionals such as attorneys, accountants, physicians and investment advisors.
Having access to this data is critical, particularly when patients present with conditions with which physicians may be unfamiliar, such as the symptoms of radiation exposure.
Working with physicians, politicians, advocacy groups such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving and even Hollywood celebrities, the Harvard center engaged in "social marketing" that sold people on the idea of a sober driver.
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She and her team surveyed some eight hundred primary-care physicians from high-cost cities (such as Las Vegas and New York), low-cost cities (such as Sacramento and Boise), and others in between.
Dr Himmelstein worries that market pressures are forcing not-for-profits to adopt the tactics of their investor-owned rivals, such as hand-picking only the healthiest applicants and giving physicians financial incentives to cut costs.
Likewise, primary care doctors are seeing similar phenomena and increasingly there are organizations such as Physician Care Direct and the American Academy of Private Physicians which are setup to transition a primary care practice into a model that can be described as two parts Marcus Welby, one part Steve Jobs.
Sites such as Sermo.com provide access to a community of practicing physicians on an anonymous basis.
The report included some caveats, such as the fact that all 14, 641 participants were healthy male physicians.
Griskewicz agreed, saying she expects that physicians will hear more requests from patients for such access as more aspects of health reform take hold and patients become more engaged in their own care.
Physicians who see patients outside of hospital systems, such as those working in private offices, contribute disproportionately to the spread of antibiotic resistance because they are more likely to prescribe drugs unnecessarily, a first-of-its-kind nationwide study that looked at patterns of antibiotic use and drug-resistant infections has found.
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After all, the group said in a recent publication, physicians take a stand on other public health issues, such as smoking, air pollution, drunk driving and vaccinations.
Currently, Watson's fact-finding prowess is being applied to crucial fields, such as healthcare, where IBM is collaborating with medical providers, hospitals and physicians to help doctors analyze a patient's history, symptoms and the latest news and medical literature to help physicians make faster, more accurate diagnoses.
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Both journalists and physicians, Wood notes, are more impressed by rare events, such as liver failure, that can be clearly associated with a drug.
Primary care physicians need to be dissected as well, handing off routine care such as treating earaches and performing camp physicals to retail clinics and assigning the care of chronically ill patients to disease management networks.
They also call during weekends or ask for prescription refills using excuses such as having dropped the pills in toilets or getting pills wet on a camping trip, physicians said.
Enacted in January 2010, the New Jersey Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act allowed registered physicians to prescribe medical marijuana to patients with "debilitating medical conditions, " such as cancer and multiple sclerosis.
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YouSendIt is a file-sharing service focused on business-oriented uses such as: lawyers sharing files with lawyers or companies sharing files with their manufacturing partners overseas, or physicians sharing medical images.
While laws vary from state to state, the monitoring programs are used to identify illegal activity such as prescription forgery, indiscriminate prescribing and doctor shopping, according to the DEA. Some programs notify physicians when their patients are seeing multiple prescribers for the same class of drugs.
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Dr. Bradley's home state of Oklahoma is one of several working with the One Health Initiative, a global program to improve communication between physicians and veterinarians to prevent the spread of infectious disease from animals to people, such as recommending tick collars, sprays or topical treatments with pesticides for dogs.
In 1989, long before physicians injected Botox into faces, the FDA approved it for patients with debilitating neurological diseases such as dystonia.
They suffer from chronic diseases, such as heart or lung disease or dementia, and death is often not unexpected (by them or their physicians).
Doctors use the scoring systems to single out patients who could benefit from counseling about lifestyle changes, such as losing weight and quitting smoking, or from preventive interventions such as low-dose aspirin and cholesterol drugs, says Yul Ejnes, the chairman of the American College of Physicians board of regents.
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