By Roland Matthews, M.D. and Nancy M. Paris, MS, FACHE According to a national public opinion poll released last summer, more than two-thirds of Americans say it’s likely they would participate in a clinical trial if recommended by their doctor, but only 22 percent say a doctor or other healthcare professional has ever talked to them about medical research. Commissioned by ... Continue Reading

By Carl Czuboka, M.D. Many of us fell in love with our profession while watching famous TV “doctors.” Do you remember the episode when Dr. Marcus Welby talked about how he felt tired, overworked and burned out? Or the one when Dr. Kildare complained to his colleagues about the struggle to keep up with changes in healthcare technology or answer a seemingly endless stream ... Continue Reading

From ATLANTA Medicine, 2013, Care for the Underserved, Vol. 84, No. 2 By Rachel Harris, M.D., M.P.H. The categorization of indigent in the United States has been the mainstay for many Americans as they are “deficient in what is required”1 to live long, happy and prosperous lives. There are many dynamic elements which play integral roles in this ongoing game of chess, ... Continue Reading

From ATLANTA Medicine, 2013, Care for the Underserved, Vol. 84, No. 2 By Rachel Harris, M.D., MPH, Elizabeth Ofili, M.D., FACC, David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D., and Rachel Harris, M.D., MPH The Determinants of Health are the “range of personal, social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health status” and involve the interaction between policy making, ... Continue Reading

From ATLANTA Medicine, 2013, Care for the Underserved, Vol. 84, No. 2 By Tabia Henry Akintobi, Ph.D., MPH, Lisa M. Goodin, MBA, & LaShawn Hoffman Socioeconomic status and ethnicity have been associated with a variety of health outcomes. Blacks have disproportionately higher morbidity and mortality associated with cardiovascular disease, cancer, homicide, diabetes ... Continue Reading

Many times as rheumatologists, we are asked about lab testing in patients with rheumatic problems. This article will mix some of the political, operational and mechanical issues within this topic. 

Most important above the entire lab testing is the history and physical examination. The labs tests are a guide that helps define our patients, but the history and physical ... Continue Reading

Only 45 percent of the 354 million annual visits for acute care in the United States are made to patients’ personal physicians, as Americans increasingly make busy emergency departments, specialists or outpatient care departments their first point of contact for treatment of new health problems or a flare up of a chronic condition like asthma or diabetes. The findings, ... Continue Reading

July/August National and state experts in the field of pain management discussed topics ranging from patient and prescriber perspectives on pain to the state of pain management in Georgia at the Georgia Pain Initiative’s recent conference, “Connecting Pain Management Policy and Practice to Serve Our Communities.” The Georgia Pain Initiative was founded to improve ... Continue Reading

November 2008 A five-year, $8 million National Institutes of Health grant to Emory University School of Medicine researchers will fund a regional clinical trial examining the best ways to protect low birth weight infants from transfusion-related viral infections, and a study of new strategies for rebuilding the immune systems of bone marrow transplant recipients. "The goal ... Continue Reading