waiting times

what is your doctor like?

what is your doctor like? is he good and you can sit and talk to him or her for ages or are they in a hurry to get you out the door to see the next patient? in the uk where i live we have panel nhs...

You just can’t make this stuff up!

Yes friends, it is time for another chapter in "How the Bureaucracy Copes". Today we’ll visit the UK’s National Health Service and see how the NHS is coping:An NHS trust has spent more...

GPS navigation for disabled drivers

Myriad challenges face disabled drivers and their caretakers as they navigate the streets in their daily lives, not the least of which is finding destinations and parking accommodations that are...

Primary care sacrifice

Alexander Sterner writes in an op-ed that no young doctor is entering primary care Internal Medicine. The numbers are this residency program are emblematic of the nationwide trend:Last year, Rush...

Discharge instructions

The majority of patients do not understand their discharge instructions after leaving the emergency room:The study, published online in July by the Annals of Emergency Medicine, found that 78 percent...

The EU "right" of health care - this should be fun to watch

Bogged down with a failing health care system with huge waiting times, Brits are sure they’ve been saved by a new EU directive:Patients will be able to escape NHS queues by demanding treatment...

Health Care Around the World: Spain

The Spanish have one of the most centralized health care systems in the world. Patients have no choice of provider and there is almost no cost sharing. Like most centralized systems without...

HRC and Barack, are you listening?

AAFP: "The Massachusetts Health Care Reform Plan addresses one critical component of health care reform -- insurance coverage. Without an adequate supply of primary care physicians, however, the plan...

Sweden’s health care system - people opting for private care

One of the primary reasons isn’t the level of care, but access to that care. And the problem being identified is lack of incentive to increase efficiency. Waiting times for medical care in...

The primary care shortage in Maryland

And so it goes . . .Maryland is confronting a growing, statewide shortage of practicing primary care and subspecialty physicians, a trend that could lead to much longer waiting times in physician...

EMERGENCY CARE: We’re Waiting Longer To See Physicians In Emergency Departments

As patient volumes in hospital emergency departments (EDs) are going up, waiting times to see an ED physician are getting longer, particularly for heart attack patients and those in need of the most...