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Hospital environments leave much to be desired for comfort. Convenience in the hospital is more for the staff but at home it is the reverse. HMOs are starting to pay for home care. The pros and cons are addressed.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could email your physician when you're too sick to go to his office! I do this regularly in my practice and don't even charge for emails. Patients love it and it saves time and builds excellent rapport with them; and that builds my practice. Email makes it possible to communicate when it is convenient to doctors and patients. Connection...

Dehumanization in today's medical practice is the standard of care. This has been especially common since the institution of the hospitalists. Patients are no longer often managed by their primary care doctor. They are often dressed half-naked, identified by their disease (ie the gallbladder in room 325), and treated as though they cannot participate in making...

The polypill is a brainstorm of the pharmaceutical companies to create a combination of drugs to make it convenient to take multiple medications. However, their real motive is to sell as much drug as possible. Consequently, they have done research under the guise of convenience but with the hope that they can convince the public and the medical profession to...

Not everyone can get face-to-face consultations for treatment of depression for a wide range of reasons that include cost, convenience, transportation problems, fear, and access. A study published in JAMA in May of 2012 compared face-to-face visits with telephone consultations and found that more people could participate in telephone consultations, but that over...

Telemedicine through website doctor services has become much more available over the past decade. There are about 30 million US users of these services and about 30% of MDs are now participating in electronic communication with their patients. The demand is rapidly growing. Ease of access, convenience and lower cost are all factors driving this kind of service.  The...