Don Read, MD

Don Read is a physician executive.

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Health policy

Does the government know what it’s doing to physicians?

Don Read, MD

September 15, 2016Sep 15, 201651

Physicians spend almost twice as much time each day typing on computers and filling out paperwork as they do seeing patients. That astonishing conclusion comes from research published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Just think about that.…

Just think about that. How would you feel if you spent two hours documenting every hour of work that you do? How would your boss feel about it? You’d be depressed and frustrated; your boss …

Health policy

The MACRA rule: Not what Congress ordered

Don Read, MD

June 21, 2016Jun 21, 20169

I joined physicians nationwide last year in cheering when Congress passed the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). Not only did it eliminate the congressional budgetary fiction known as the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula, it also promised to simplify and improve Medicare’s costly and complex programs that purport to measure the quality of care we provide to our patients.

Unfortunately, as we review the draft implementing rule, …

Conditions and diseases

A surgeon gets infected with West Nile virus and tells his story

Don Read, MD

September 10, 2012Sep 10, 20126

Adapted from an interview from Me and My Doctor. I will never be normal like I was before I got sick. I couldn’t run if it was an emergency. I cannot ride a bicycle, although I can sort of halfway…

Adapted from an interview from Me and My Doctor.

I will never be normal like I was before I got sick. I couldn’t run if it was an emergency. I cannot ride a bicycle, although I can sort of halfway dance with my wife. I can’t carry my grandchildren up the stairs.

I am never sick. I was a perfectly healthy surgeon, working 88.7 hours a week on average. I had missed …