With health care pushing in the direction of integration of care and Partnership’s interest in integration as we implement the new Medi-Cal mild-to-moderate mental health benefit and our Managing Pain Safely initiative, a significant bone of contention involves protecting the Continue reading
Monthly Archives: April 2015
How do mental health problems and problem drinking interact?
People with unhealthy patterns of alcohol intake often have concomitant mental health problems. Whether one factor is the more dominant influence in this dialectic is a subject of ongoing debate. Is it the heavy drinking which leads to mental health problems? Or is it Continue reading
Does physician attire affect patient satisfaction?
Here at the PHC Primary Care Blog, we have been remiss. It has been well over one year since we commented on physician fashion. An update is long overdue. When last we visited this subject, Dr. Kubota ruminated on the infection control implications of various items of physician dress. Let us now revisit the subject, but from a different vantage point: Continue reading