To finish out my complaining about Dr. Oz for this cycle, I want to go back to the New Yorker article on him that appeared earlier this year. A quote from the article: “As Oz likes to say, Marcus Welby—the kindly, accessible, but straight-talking television doctor—is dead.” Assuming he really said...
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I’m back to my usual comments after my long series on the many ways family physicians deliver better care at a lower cost. When our article came out that I’ve been commenting on, I was in the middle of griping about Dr. Oz again. I’ll pick up where I left off....
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Continuing my discussion of the findings in our recently published study on the ways family physicians deliver better care at a lower cost than a multi-ologist model, today I will talk about how family physicians deliver care at lower cost facilities. I think I’ll make this post on the cost-effectiveness of...
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Continuing my discussion of the findings in our recently published study on the ways family physicians deliver better care at a lower cost than a multi-ologist model, today I will talk about how family physicians actually talk their patients out of expensive wasteful tests and treatments. I saw this occur multiple...
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