Dr. G Opines
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Healthcare Policy
PROBLEMS WITH RESIDENCY MATCH PROGRAM
I touched on it briefly in the “Residency ‘Match Day’” article, but a lot of shots are being taken at…
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Human Interest
RESIDENCY “MATCH DAY”
“Match Day” occurs annually in March. This year’s edition has already occurred and has left us with some questions and…
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Office Practice Info
ABNORMAL LAB RESULTS
Every day, family physicians have patients with abnormal lab test results. Most of the time, the abnormal results can be…
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Healthcare Policy
MEDICARE FRAUD
Fraudulent billing of Medicare is a problem of mammoth proportion. Mammoth not only because of the number of individuals, companies,…
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Human Interest
THE BEST TIME OF YEAR FOR SPORTS
I’m a big sports fan and think we’re currently in the middle of the best time of the year for…
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Drugs & Medications
TEN DRUGS THAT HARM THE KIDNEYS
When we reach the age designation known as a “senior citizen,” a lot of things in our bodies have already…
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Physician Office Issues
PRIVATE PRACTICE VS. EMPLOYMENT
In a post I wrote a few months ago for DrGOpines.com, I stated three major reasons why physicians were leaving…
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Healthcare Policy
ANOTHER MEDICARE RUSE!
Medicare is once again being disingenuous in its attempts to better compensate primary care physicians. Their usual method is to…
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Aging
POSTMENOPAUSAL HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY
In 2002, The Women’s Health Initiative, WHI, a study of the health habits of American women, completely shut down hormone…
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Sports Medicine Info
EXERCISE MIMETICS AND MYOKINES
EXERCISE MIMETICS AND MYOKINES Within the past few weeks, I published an article about the benefits of exercise for treating…
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