Hospital Consults — Are They Worth It?
I asked a number of the attending docs if they’d spoken with the patient about the problem, and was startled by how rarely the answer was yes.
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by C. Scott McMillin | Feb 28, 2022 | Addiction | 0 |
I asked a number of the attending docs if they’d spoken with the patient about the problem, and was startled by how rarely the answer was yes.
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by C. Scott McMillin | Mar 8, 2021 | In the News | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Dec 10, 2020 | Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Nov 23, 2020 | Addiction | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jun 11, 2020 | Addiction, Addiction Clinicians | 0 |
That is not the doc’s fault, and frankly, it isn’t really James’, either. It’s what happens where addiction rules. If not at that moment, then the next.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Nov 29, 2018 | Prevention, Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
It’s these outdated attitudes towards addictions that enable the healthcare professional to ignore important information provided by the patient.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Nov 19, 2018 | In the News | 0 |
Think physician practices and pharmacies and specialty clinics who began with a lucrative sideline that may now be their main source of revenue.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 18, 2018 | Addictive Substances, Thinking About Addiction | 1 |
In the past, we’ve flung opioids at the problem, and haven’t developed alternatives.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Apr 30, 2018 | In the News | 2 |
The real solution would have been for Prince to have received treatment for his drug problem, which by this time was a far bigger issue than his somatic pain.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 19, 2018 | Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
Too many doctors worry about “those people” showing up in the waiting room. They don’t particularly want to be known as a resource for the addicted.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 5, 2017 | Addiction, Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
There’s no blood test, no scan to aid diagnosis. Knowing intellectually that one in ten will succumb is very little help; it has no practical value in terms of predicting an individual outcome.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Sep 7, 2017 | Addiction Clinicians, Prevention | 1 |
Try thinking of the interaction between drug seeker and practitioner as type of negotiation where the two parties have very different goals.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Aug 31, 2017 | Prevention | 0 |
There are just too many different forms of manipulation for any of us to be uniformly good at identifying them on the fly.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Aug 24, 2017 | Prevention | 0 |
One sign of vulnerability: the place tended to be too busy or too slow.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | May 4, 2017 | Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
Here was a physician who regularly committed an assortment of crimes without considering himself a criminal. To his way of thinking, he was the victim.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Feb 13, 2017 | Addiction, Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
There’s no shortage of stories among nurses and doctors about a friend or family member who went through treatment and relapsed, perhaps many times.
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