Getting our smoking patients to put down their cigarettes (aka coffin nails) can be difficult. Sorry, I know this sounds like I’m preaching to the choir. Medi-Cal patients smoke at a higher rate – 31% – than patients with other insurance – 22%. They even smoke Continue reading
If an august, gray-haired professor delivered your medical school lecture on syphilis, or if you had to suffer the pontifications of a wise-acre resident on the I.D. service during internship, you may recall that syphilis was formerly known as “The Great Imitator.” Continue reading
As Regional Medical Director, I am frequently at one end of a PHC teleconference – either video or phone – doing the best I can to understand and participate in the meeting. PHC clinicians are currently spread over six counties, making teleconferencing Continue reading