Craig M. Wax, DO
Craig M. Wax is a family physician.
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Conditions and diseases
The worldwide panic over COVID-19, and the heavy-handed government response to it, has generated a wide range of reaction among patients. As a family physician and a psychiatrist, we have seen some patients adapting well. On the other hand, many…
The worldwide panic over COVID-19, and the heavy-handed government response to it, has generated a wide range of reaction among patients. As a family physician and a psychiatrist, we have seen some patients adapting well. On the other hand, many feel anxious over the thought of getting the illness or experience other negative emotional responses resulting from the lockdown. Invasive public policy intervention always comes with a host of unanticipated …
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Lockdown panic syndrome, and how to fix it
Health technology
In the history of medical care, medical records served one purpose and two masters: to record diagnosis and treatment for physicians to refer to and for patients to use to transfer care when they desired. The medical record was a…
In the history of medical care, medical records served one purpose and two masters: to record diagnosis and treatment for physicians to refer to and for patients to use to transfer care when they desired. The medical record was a simple 3 x 5 or ledger card in the 1950s. The patient paid directly for care at the time of service. Usually, the physician had a nurse and a spouse …
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The healing patient-physician analog relationship is in critical condition
Health policy
The federal government has been trying to control the health of citizens for nearly a century, increasingly separating patients and their physicians. WWII wage controls firmly established health insurance as an employee “benefit” in lieu of salary. This gave the…
The federal government has been trying to control the health of citizens for nearly a century, increasingly separating patients and their physicians.
WWII wage controls firmly established health insurance as an employee “benefit” in lieu of salary. This gave the employer power to choose coverage based on its needs, not the employee’s: the first degree of separation.
Since WWII, government has imposed a multitude of programs that add degrees of separation: Medicare, …
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Eliminating the 6 degrees of patient-physician separation
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