I swear by Epic, by eClinicalWorks, by Allscripts, by AthenaHealth, and by all the coders and accountants, making them my witnesses, that I will carry out, according to my ability and judgment, this oath and this indenture.
To hold my mouse in this art equal to my own hand; to make it right-click as well as left-click; when my ACO is in need of money to share an “at-risk” portion of …
Today’s version of the Hippocratic oath
As the sixty-something-year-old woman and I shook hands and sat down to get acquainted during her “new patient” visit, she pulled out a small stack of papers and a thick spiral-bound notebook. I glanced at her problem list in the electronic chart: diabetes, obesity, hypertension, anxiety — the usual. She handed me the notebook and a printed Excel spreadsheet with several columns: her medications (a handful), the supplements she takes …
Trapped between two conflicting professional obligations
In recent months, AAFP President Reid Blackwelder has been editorializing and debating what they see as the encroachment of nurse practitioners (NPs) and other “mid-level providers” (physicians are, presumably, “upper-level”) on the practice territory of family physicians (FPs). Dr. Blackwelder has repeatedly said that NP and physician roles are “not interchangeable.” The AAFP’s position on this issue seems to be resistance to the increasingly common decisions by state legislatures to …
Why family physicians are a threat to themselves
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