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Paul Hoffman writes at the American Thinker about one disturbing byproduct of the COVID-19 pandemic. People have a tendency to venerate doctors, and when they heroically save your life, this…
“Everything you know about obesity is wrong.” Whether you believe fat people are failures, skinny people are health, diets work, or exercise will make you thin, it is not necessarily…
In North Carolina, nurse practitioners (NP) can’t treat patients unless they establish a collaborative practice agreement with a supervising doctor – a written contract that outlines patient management, prescribing authorities,…
There are stories after stories about Direct Primary Care helping patients who require lots of medical attention. The following one (taken from my policy report on DPC) explains how physicians…
I recently blogged about the growing consensus among North Carolina lawmakers and health care experts for there to be more transparency in how state taxpayer dollars are spent on physician…
If an NP wants to practice in North Carolina, he/she must establish a collaborative practice agreement with a physician that outlines practice parameters for patient management and prescribing authorities, as…
Telemedicine is a burgeoning industry that’s reshaping health care delivery, particularly in rural areas. After looking into telemedicine’s regulatory landscape, it looks like North Carolina’s telemedicine rules are less restrictive…
Since 2000, there has been a 75 percent increase in hospital employment. Smaller practices are selling their practices to larger health systems because it’s difficult for them to stay financially afloat in…
My colleague Terry Stoops just wrote a blog post entitled, “let parents sort out quality in the education marketplace.” The same goes for patients in the health care marketplace. Still,…
Peter Levin explains in a Barron’s editorial commentary how physicians can help rein in health care costs. The American health-care system was built on physicians practicing independently or in small…
Direct primary care restores the incredible value of personalized medicine, benefiting patients, doctors, employers, and the state.
The Obama Administration and Congress may be sealing a budget deal in which private medical practices and hospital-owned practices will be paid the same amount for certain health care services…