Good Health and New AMA President Andy Gurman, MD on EHRs: " I don't have one, and no one can make me use one.". Elvonda

The love-fest with EHRs continues, to the great chagrin of the believers in fairies, unicorns and cybernetic utopia. Andy Gurman, MD, Takes ...

Good Health and Repeated crushing by alligators and crocodiles: ICD-10 has you covered. Harmed by bad health IT? No codes for that.. Elvonda

Your government at work, spending your tax dollars and making your doctors want to retire early due to increasing bureaucratic busywork. T...

Good Health and Professional Physician Organizations: A Continuing Necessary Ingredient for Ongoing Health Reform. Elvonda

This JAMA article on "Professional Organizations' Role in Supporting Physicians to Improve Value in Health Care"  reminds rea...

Good Health and Why Physical Therapists Should Make Diagnoses. Elvonda

"Physical therapy is not a subspecialty of the medical profession and physical therapists are not medical doctors; we are a separate pr...

Good Health and British Physical Therapists Gain Prescribing Rights. Elvonda

"This is a truly historic day..." The 51,000 British physical therapists (physiotherapists) can now become trained to independentl...

Good Health and Is the Severity-Intensity Model a Roadmap for Fraud and Abuse?. Elvonda

First, I'd like to thank all the hard-working staff and volunteers at the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) for the effort th...