Primary care physician

During high school I had my first experience of having surgery and even being hospitalized. One day I was having abdominal pain and vomiting so my mom took me to see my primary care physician and ended up with medication to help those symptoms. That night things got significantly worse so I went back to my physician in the morning. After a series of tests were done, a nurse was rushing me in a wheelchair to meet with a surgeon. I had never even met a surgeon until meeting Dr. Ross. While I sat…

adheres to the guidelines that stipulated that if patients return to the hospital for after being treated for 30 days there be a penalty of some sort. This guideline came about after the implementation of the affordable care in 2010. Before the implementation of the affordable care act, there were over 20% of readmission to the hospitals 30 days after being discharged (Rice, 2015). These penalties can prove to be very costly, as a result, hospitals are very dissatisfied the way it is being dealt…

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3270933/ b) increased medical errors. Researchers have found an association between the use of CPOE and increased medical errors due to poorly designed system interfaces or lack of end-user training. c) Physician may lose his or her autonomy in making patient decisions because of EHR blocks the ordering of certain tests or medications. Overdependence on technology may also become…

to know what sort of patient has a disease than what sort of disease a patient has’’. This quote readily brings to my mind the importance of individualized patient care rather than the episodic care of a presenting complaint. As a child, I found myself frequently in the hospital due to fever but I clearly recall the compassionate care I received from our family doctor each time I visited the hospital. He had such a strong bond with my family because he knew us not just by names and diagnoses in…

is the doctor’s charisma and care for the patient. A patients experience from the moment they walk into the waiting room till the time they leave determines whether they are going to keep that doctor for as long as they can. If a doctor can establish an ever-lasting relationship with his/her physician, it speaks volume about the success of the physician. From my observations at various hospitals, a patient-revered doctor is directly correlated to how well a physician masters the ability to…

manner. This was a most valuable experience for me. I took things from every doctor I worked with and learned from it. I saw the kind of doctor I wanted to be. Throughout my clinical training, I’ve been encouraged by the feedback I’ve got from both physicians and patients, not only in terms of competence, but also in compassion. I believe that compassion is a quality that has matured in me over the years, coming to know something of what it’s like to lay in a hospital bed and say to a stranger?…

in the building with other members of the hospice team. They were meeting together for a weekly meeting. The weekly meeting they were having is one that they are familiar with. They have this meeting every Tuesday to discuss their patient’s plan of care. They cannot cover all the patients every Tuesday for time constraints so they cover half of the alphabet by last name one Tuesday and the other half the next Tuesday. Since the type of work they do often involves deaths, they begin the meeting…

operations, physicians must constantly juggle the interests of the patient with the interests of the state and military. Physicians of the armed forces must afford the same moral obligations to their patients, whether Soldiers, local nationals or the enemy, as civilian physicians. The major difference of military physicians is their extreme circumstance of military operations outside the confines of a state of the art medical facility within…

The Florida Association of Nurse Practitioners (FLANP) supports the ability for ARNPs to certify DNR orders, sign Baker Acts and death certificates, we well as the removal of the physician supervisory licensure requirements (FLANP). Beginning January 1, 2017 ARNPs will have the authority under law to prescribe Schedule II, III, or IV drugs (Florida Board of Nursing, 2016). Just as the restrictions over prescriptions rights have evolved over time, so too can other laws that will allow NPs to…

also allow the physician to understand the patient. A deeper understanding by both parties will allow for the two to take part in shared decision making, “Shared decision-making is a collaborative process that allows patients and their clinicians to make health care decisions together, taking into account the best scientific evidence available, as well as the patient 's values and preferences”. (Farham, 2014). Shared decision making will give benefit both the patient and the physician, patients…