Practice Management News

The American College of Lifestyle Medicine, or ACLM, announced the release of a simple diet screening tool that captures a patient’s dietary pattern, allowing clinicians to implement a “food as medicine” approach in practice.

A physician practice owner’s week is spent seeing and caring for patients and managing the day-to-day issues of the practice.

BOSTON — In this video, Healio Primary Care Peer Perspective Board Member Alan Dow, MD, MSHA, FACP, highlights important takeaways from the ACP Internal Medicine Meeting.

Patients have become increasingly disillusioned with traditional depression treatments, and the search for new therapies has created some chaos in the field, according to experts.

A 38-year-old mother, wife and assistant bank manager was seen in the ER yesterday. She had been in a motor vehicle accident, hitting a telephone pole. In the ER, she was found to have two fractured ribs and multiple contusions.

In this edition, FDA accepts new drug application for Eluminex, most mentors in vitreoretinal subspecialty are men and more.

Within obstetrics and gynecology, sexual harassment, workplace discrimination and bullying were frequently reported among clinicians and trainees, according to a systematic review published in JAMA Network Open.

Screenings for breast, cervical and colorectal cancers were significantly lower in federally qualified health centers compared with the general population, a study in JAMA Internal Medicine showed.

BOSTON — Life’s Essential 8, a campaign led by the American Heart Association, is an assortment of interventions “we can all follow” and “associated with much better outcomes,” Clyde W. Yancy, MD, MSc, MACP, MACC, FAHA, FHFSA, said.

BOSTON — In this video, Clyde W. Yancy, MD, MSc, MACP, MACC, FAHA, FHFSA, offers tips on how to approach incidental calcification findings from a nongated CT.