The American College of Physicians defines a Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) as a care delivery model whereby patient treatment is coordinated through their primary treating physician (PTP) to ensure they receive the necessary care when and where they need it, in...

It is a general concern among medical professionals that the healthcare system is suffering from a deficiency of empathy and compassion for patients.  Physicians across the country are leaving their small individual practices and going to work for large healthcare...

Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work When you meet a person for the first time often the first question we ask after we learn their name is “what do you do?”.  As a culture, we...

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness month and it is recommended that all people over the age of 50 be screened.  According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Among cancers that affect both men and women, colorectal cancer is the second leading cause...

When we as physicians enter the profession of medicine, we are instructed in the Hippocratic Oath and its tenet of First Do No Harm.  We take this as a mandate to go into the world and to alleviate suffering in all its forms.  For many years, opioid analgesics have...