Going to see your doctor these days can be like sitting an exam. You have to get all your information ready beforehand, and then when you are in the examination you have to try and remember everything that might be important. Effective communication is the key to getting the most out of your doctor – so how do you do that? Here are 5 top tips on how:
1)      Prepare. Before you even leave your home, list all the symptoms you can, whether or not you think they are relevant. If …

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I attend physician appointments with my patients every day.  I am always surprised at the lack of questions posed from the patient and/or family members.  When did we decide that the doctor knows best and we should simply take his or her advice without questioning the why, how come, and what is my alternative?  A story in Better Health suggested that there are typically five reasons patients fail to ask questions.
1.  Fear-In my practice I do feel that there is a fear of many of my patients that …

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A Massachusetts jury has awarded the family of Antwoine Key more than $2 million in a wrongful death lawsuit filed against a Massachusetts doctor allegedly responsible for his death. In 2001, Dr. Dorina R. Abdulah had deemed Key medically eligible to play collegiate basketball at Eastern Connecticut State University. Key died on the court in 2005 of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. During his review, Abdulah found a “slight systolic murmur” in Key’s heart, but deemed him healthy enough to play. The lawsuit claimed that Abdulah should not have approved Key …

I contacted an attorney client this week to let him know that a potential care management client might be calling to speak with him about my work.  I asked that he be brutally honest and not embellish.  He shot back an email that stated he would just tell her that I was too busy, stressed out, and always takes on too much.  (Now, I must explain that this was said with tongue in cheek and he later stated he would never hesitate to recommend my work and never worried about …