Every day, as we care for our patients, we are placed in a unique position, where we are armed with the world…
Fred N. Pelzman MD
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Apocryphal story from residency: On morning rounds in the critical care unit, the post-call resident starts to present a complicated patient admitted…
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Once again, we find ourselves stuck between a rock and a hard place. Increasingly, providers are being pressured to improve access for…
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How one insurer’s mistake wrecked a practice’s quality score
by Fred N. Pelzman MD February 3, 2019To do the math right, you have to get your numerator and denominator correct, or else things just don’t work. Recently, in…
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Several patients seen in our practice recently were significantly and dramatically transformed by the electronic health record (EHR). And not in a…
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Patient care suffers when you squeeze patients into a tight schedule
by Fred N. Pelzman MD January 13, 201986 minutes. That’s what I found when I added up how late patients were through a single practice session earlier in the…
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How do we change the way we think about taking care of patients, particularly when it comes to not the individual patient…
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Electronic health records: Separating the signal from the noise
by Fred N. Pelzman MD December 23, 20185,177. That’s the current number of “cc’ed charts” as of this morning in my electronic health record in-basket. While it might sound…