Category: Health News
Created: 9/25/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/25/2008
Your personal physician should have lots of information about you but what do you know about the person caring for you. There are good reasons to guard the personal address and phone number but not essential information you need to know. That they went to college and medical school is a given. What has happened since? I want to be part of a group with high ethical standards. So should my colleagues.
I don't think past depression disqualifies a provider, but current treatment with more than one medication might. I would like to know so the decision to continue a therapeutic relationship is mine.
Yet, if we look at the number of people to be treated and the amount of money spent to save one life, it is excessive. There are probably better ways, or ways that should receive more emphasis and funding but instead only medications are recommended. This is a conflict of interest to me. I do not want my doctor to have one.
The first question I want to know is how do they accumulate their continuing medical education (CME)? What they teach the average college undergraduate about genetics now, was not known when I went to PA school. It is imperative a practitioner keep up their medical knowledge. It can be done with very high quality information or it can be not so high quality. It could be the bare minimum number of hours or the required minimum could be just a smattering of many hours they accumulate each year. This information could be available as a one page document that is on line or in the office for patients to read. Certifying bodies like State Medical Boards and Professional associations like the American Academy of Family Physicians have a set of criteria that members of those organizations or licensees of the Board must meet on a continuing basis. You can go to the sites and familiarize yourself with the requirements.
First, Privacy Protection
Has your health care provider been treated for psychiatric conditions like depression, bipolar illness, or a substance abuse problem? This is information that you would not be told in most offices. You would likely be rebuffed and told if you conditioned your willingness to be treated by a particular physician upon the condition you know this information, go some where else.
Does your Doctor or other health care provider have a conflict of interest? I mean by this are they regularly receiving lunch and supper invitations paid for by the company that makes a drug or device recommended for you.
We know our politicians are influenced by all the political contributions and gifts provided to them. Though Doctors say they are not influenced, it is a fact that each year the recommendations for cholesterol medications is liberalized. Every doctor serving on the panel that makes those recommendations, is receiving some form of renumeration from one or more companies making cholesterol medications.
Is your blood pressure medication one that is recommended by most specialists across the country or is it the one being recommended to your doctor most successfully by a drug company representative who buys lunch and/or dinner for your doctor regularly?
Third, a no cost opportunity to listen to and ask questions about a topic that interests you.
If you opt for a report or the seminar you get three benefits.
Consider listening to a free teleseminar. hosted by Bruce (me).
Even if the provider did not have any past or present problems, they would not consider the question one they needed to answer. You have to depend upon the State Medical Board to monitor this issue. The boards often publish this information on their Internet sites. You should be familiar with how to get this information and to know about it.
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