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Giving a printed handout is just a starting point for patients to conduct research. I would recommend that health care providers include in their hand out at least 5 sites where patients can go to obtain comprehensive education about their conditions. 

Although many practitioners recommend theirown associates websites, these sites tend to be less than patient friendly in that the are not engaging or visually appealing.

Better are sites that are meant just for consumer and have high quality information.

There is so much information on the internet these days but seems to me it getting harder and harder to find high quality accurate information in many areas. With every search comes thousands of recommendations based on how Google sees the world yet I find myslef digging very deep to find the quality information because the individual who produce high quality contents are not savvy enough to get the information onto the top of a Google search.

Great marketing will continue to winover great content and thus the knowledge and opinions of the populace can be easily swayed and bought when you spinkle the right mix of words and tags into your content

Everyone is busy so personal emails must be short and contain no more than 2 points or questions to increase the likelihood that there will b a response.

Now for emial marketing when the goal is to get the receiver engaged and ultiately to buy, longer emails are necessary to introduce and explain.

Ask patients what they feel they ought to do and then help them follow their own advice. Also it may help to tell some patients that if they refuse to follow the advise given perhaps they should be discharge to another practitioner who they will listen to. 

Will plan have more comprehensive coverage to allow people to choose modalities such as Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurvedia and homeopathy and other complementary and truly preventative therapies along side the choices of pharmaceuticals, PET scans and surgery?

This is a positive situation. About a generation from now perhaps we will have a less litigious society and more monies will be spent on services that everyone would like as opposed to in a legal system which feeds the lawyers and leaves both plaintiff and defendant as victims of the system.

Is this now part of the Review of Systems? With a large part of the population owning guns in some form, how reasonable is it to report it to authorities and in addition what services ar available to assess if the gun is of imminet danger?

If one considers the projections of shortages in primary care, too much debt is a good thing in that it forces the decision to not subspecialize.

Entrepreneurs are now hiring the MBAs who are "a dime a dozen"

Interesting how chelation was used extensively in the past then fell way out of favor in which doctors who used it were seen as quacks back to now when the "medical establishment" is again looking at the possible merits of ths controversial treatment

YES. This is very true. I know few people who are satisfied with the way our country is going. The way we have allowed our political system to pit us all against each other is the reason many are just ready to walk away.

Can we do a new startup country?

I've seen this play out in practice. Even African-American patients who are highly educated and well insured receive biased treatment. The result is poorer outcomes in health even for the most diligent patient being cared for by a biased doctor.

Previous studies have found that lower patient satisfaction scores are correlated with poorer outcomes on a wide range of metrics, such as medication adherence and hospital readmissions. There is still no proven way to combat the unconscious biases that can undermine some doctors’ relationships with black patients, said Irene V. Blair, PhD, lead author of the Denver study.

My tips would be to speak in short sound bites and pretend you are at a dinner party having a conversation. Let here be a natural back and forth between the host and you.

The call to action should be soft such as giving your web address. Nothing sounds worst than not giving information on the topic and than telling the audience if they buy your book or go to your program they will get the info. That is the most counter productive way to do an interview. Realize that you want the host to promote you rather than doing self promotion and when you answer the questions the host will more likely wish their audience to find you because you have established yourself as the authority on the topic.

Multidisciplinary team is hospitals are not truly multidisiplinary in that genrally only Western medical approaches are considered. Cancer care would be impacted greatly when complementary medical approaches are added along with lifestyle coaching for the cancer patient.

Clinicians should retain the right to decide whether a particular recommendation is right for them. There are many studies that show 1-the dangers of the flu shot 2-the inefficiency of the flu shot.

So clinicians who choose to make a broadly informed decision of NOT taking the flu shot should not be deemed as a health hazard as generally tose who take the time to broadly investigate options for maintaining health are generally the healthy people in the populations who do not carry and spread disease.