While data on physician-patient e-mail patterns are limited, patients appear eager to e-mail their doctors. Physicians are more reluctant. According to Cyber Dialogue, ... be able to use it. via med.fsu.edu 1999 folks!! 50% of patients wanted the ability to email their physician and considered changing physicians who would engage them. 1999 !!! It's 10 years later and not much has ...

The November issue of Virtual Mentor from the American Medical Association Journal of Ethics is on Humanizing Physician Learning Educating for ProfessionalismIn 2003, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) mandated that residents could work no more than 24 consecutive hours and limited ...

Physician bias might be the reason why African Americans are not receiving kidney/pancreas transplants at the same rate as similar patients in other racial groups. Dr. ... Georgetown University Medical Center, and colleagues explore this phenomenon in the November issue of the American Journal of Transplantation. Medicare coverage for people needing a simultaneous kidney/pancreas transplant has ...

The New Media Journal | The Healthcare Reform Bill: Truth & Consequences by Dr. Elaina George, MD: "The healthcare reform bill (HR ... the patient by creating a national health commissioner and task forces that will evaluate and decide everything from what medications a physician is allowed to prescribe to a patient, to what surgery will be approved, to what outcomes will be expected for a ...

Journal of the American Medical Association 2009 (Vol. 302 No. 19) Contents Fade Fave: Telephone-Delivered Collaborative Care for Treating Post-CABG Depression Fade ... -related quality of life.This article tests the effectiveness of telephone-delivered collaborative care vs usual physician care. An NHS Athens password is required to access this article online. Posted in Current Awareness, ...

... University of Alberta, Dr. Thbaud dons a lab coat and peers into a microscope to examine the precise effect of stem cells on the lungs. Today, with his scientific research being published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Dr. Thbaud has made a significant leap to bridge the gap between those two worlds. An international team of scientists led by Dr. Thbaud has ...