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Information, Patients, Physicians

Don’t Look at the Internet

December 27, 2018 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

Don’t look at the internet. No matter how few doctors tell their patients this, we talk like it’s everyone. We love the story. It fulfills the narrative of the stereotypical controlling doctor. But don’t look at the internet is a hangover from the early days of the Information Age. It marked the transition from physician as sole arbiter of information to patient ... Continue Reading about Don’t Look at the Internet

Tagged With: e-patient, Internet

Patients

The Request for a Blood Test – Why More Testing May Not be Better

December 10, 2018 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minutes

I’ve heard it a thousand times. 'The patient wanted testing done.' So the doctor ran a blood test. But few people really want a blood test. What they want is to know that they don’t have something horrible. I’ve seen it a thousand times with young parents. Anxiety competes with their trust in me as we discuss what could be going on with their child. I never ... Continue Reading about The Request for a Blood Test – Why More Testing May Not be Better

Tagged With: Diagnostic testing, Doctoring 101, Medical decision making

Hospitals, Patients

High-Deductible Insurance – 3 Consequences to Patient Care

November 16, 2018 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

Possibly the biggest change that I’ve seen in clinical practice is the rising burden of health care costs on patients. On a daily basis I have difficult conversations with families as they face the grim reality of health costs offset in their direction. It’s captured pretty nicely here in this Bloomberg piece, Doctors are Fed Up with Being Turned Into Debt Collectors. ... Continue Reading about High-Deductible Insurance – 3 Consequences to Patient Care

Tagged With: Clinic Operations

Patients, Social/Public Media

Patient Influencers: How Do We Protect Patients from Patients?

November 13, 2018 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

This article in Stat, As social media ‘influencers,’ patients are getting a voice. And pharma is ready to pay up, raises questions about pharmaceutical supported patient influencers. An entire industry has cropped up to link drug makers with the industry’s own version of an influencer — people, usually patients, who have small but devoted followings and who might be ... Continue Reading about Patient Influencers: How Do We Protect Patients from Patients?

Tagged With: Digital influence, Pharma/Industry

Future Medicine, Patients, Physicians

Human Experience of Disease and Patient Expectations

November 8, 2018 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

Running an algorithm for the management of a well-typed tumor or a child with a septic joint is relatively easy. But managing the expectations of that cancer patient or nervous mother is something more involved. Expectations are how we imagine the future given what we currently know and understand. Patient expectations are part of the human experience of ... Continue Reading about Human Experience of Disease and Patient Expectations

Tagged With: Artificial intelligence, MD Future, Patient experience

Patients, Physicians

How to Manage Patient Expectations

November 3, 2018 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

One of the most important roles I play as a physician is the management of patient expectations. The reason it’s so important stems from the nature of my work. As a gastroenterologist to small people I work in a grey-zone. I live in the space between intestinal pathology and the complicated lives of growing children and families. And if you know anything about ... Continue Reading about How to Manage Patient Expectations

Tagged With: Doctoring 101, Patient experience

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Bryan Vartabedian is the Chief Pediatrics Officer at Texas Children’s Hospital North Austin and one of health care’s influential
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