Your primary care provider, be it an MD, DO, PA-C, or ARNP, is probably glad to see you for a preventative care visit. Annual physicals
Compared to other "high-income" countries, the US spends more in large part because of increased labor, drug and administrative costs.
Local subscription-based health care provider Qliance closes.
Urgent Care Clinics have sprung up to fill a perceived gap in healthcare, available for folks who have needs that don’t rise to the level of an emergency room visit, or when it is inconvenient to see their primary doctor.
There are dozens of Urgent/Immediate/Express/Convenient Care Clinics in Washington State. Such clinics attempt to fill a perceived gap in healthcare, available for folks who have healthcare needs that don’t rise to the level (in both time and cost) of an emergency room visit, or when it is inconvenient (or impossible) to see their primary care doctor (if they have one).
Two recent substantial reorganizations will soon occur in the medical care community in Kitsap County, resulting in new ways the community will receive much of their health care.
The findings of two new studies show that migraine sufferers are often treated with narcotic painkillers or barbiturates, which goes against guidelines for the safe treatment of such patients.
For many decades a hospital was primarily a physical facility to which doctors would admit patients for care or surgery. The admitting doctor – whether primary care doctor or surgeon — would then be in charge of the patient’s care while in the hospital, doing rounds on the patient, ordering medications and tests, and responding to nurses when called. It was a fairly simple model. Well, it’s not your father’s hospital any more.
Cardiac enzyme testing is currently relied on to help rule out a cardiac explanation for symptoms that may represent acute cardiac syndrome. This article is a sequel to “A Fatal Standard of Care for Heart Attack Victims?”
Medical negligence and wrongful death cases involving a delay in diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease often present a common fact pattern. This article outlines the standard of care in diagnosing cardiac disease and how it often fails to avoid poor outcomes. It also discusses the handling of legal claims from misdiagnosis of cardiac disease. Changes occurring after 1998 place much greater emphasis on using cardiac enzymes to rule out cardiac explanations for chest pain symptoms.
