tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79581328564168140492011-09-19T06:01:35.093-07:00Questing after compassionDr. Geekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11929973755300589820noreply@blogger.comBlogger141100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7958132856416814049.post-33208798922835676502011-09-15T13:26:00.000-07:002011-09-15T16:47:51.963-07:00

Two posts in one day! Whoda thunkit?I've been holding it in. You may notice this gets random. The blog, not this post. Though now this post is taking a direction totally off topic.Anyway, there's a huge group of people in Orlando, called the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). The Scientific Assembly and the recently completed Congress of Delegates, give Family Physicians see and guide

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So, I've been idle.  In more ways than one.  Currently, my father and I are putting together a new practice based on the Direct Medicine model.  For those of you who have heard of the concierge concept or seen the show "Royal Pains," this should be familiar.  For everyone else, this model consists of a retainer fee for unlimited access.  In essence, you pay me (or us, though we'll get to that in

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Originally submitted at SCOTTEVEST, Inc.What do you get when you combine the warmth of fleece, a cutting-edge Personal Area Network from Technology Enabled Clothing and years of product development experience? The absolute best fleece ever produced by SCOTTEVEST! This dual-fabric, fifth-generation fleece is filled with 24 pockets... just... Fleece 5.0Physicians in

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Reminder: Come visit the South Carolina Booth at the AAFP National Conference of Residents and Students and look for me roaming the floor to join the live Blogtalk Radio Podcast of the Doctor Anonymous Show (http://www.doctoranonymous.com)- Posted from my iPhoneLocation:Wyandotte St,Kansas City,United States

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"Everything changes." "We start dying the moment we're born." "The only constant in life is change." "The more things change, the more they stay the same." All very trite, but mostly all very true. The changes that become more evident to me daily involve the gentle paradigm shift in medicine. An institution that once held the health of its constituents as its utmost goal, now looking more at

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Sorry it's been so long since the last post.  A lot of moonlighting and reading have occurred since then, all of which has inspired a new series on healthcare as it stands and a glimpse of how I intend to do my part to change it.  Along the way, I'll elucidate how technology is making a lot of what I see as real change possible. All in all, think of the previous post as a quick history lesson,

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The current healthcare system, while the subject of much debate, evolved out of several smaller pieces of legislation.  Like the glacier, this movement toward an insurance-based economy moved slowly but inexorably toward prominence, thanks in large part to a number of legislative efforts aimed at giving the consumer of healthcare protection from perceived exorbitant costs. The real problem arose

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I type this sitting on the couch in the call room at the hospital. On my new iPad... For the last few weeks I've been saying that I wouldn't buy the first iteration of the iPad. I'd wait until they worked out all the kinks. There's not even a front-facing camera! Then I held this amazing piece of technology in my hands, and the quiet realization that this was a new quantum state in computing.

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So, I didn't pre-order an iPad. I won't be standing in line in Augusta to get one. I do, however, agree with the camp that see this new offering from Apple as a whole new way of looking at HIS in medicine and more specifically, Primary Care. As a family doc, there's nothing more precious than time (see my post on First-Order Retrievability below). With the advent of the Cellular Age and the

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Last night on Dr. A, we talked a little about the Warrior Dash.  I thought today I'd give a little background on how I found it and why I'm so excited about blazing this new trail. About four months ago, a friend of mine became a fan of the page for "Warrior Dash" on Facebook.  I had never heard of such a thing, but when you're a near-30-year-old who grew up on He-Man and American Gladiators,

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Just came across this article. Pretty good stuff. 30 Habits that Will Change your Life Health habits 1. Exercise 30 minutes every day. Especially if you don’t do much movement while working, it’s essential that you get some daily exercise. 30 minutes every day are the minimum recommended for optimal health. 2. Eat breakfast every day. Breakfast is the more important meal of the day,

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As a society, we are surrounded by technology.  Some more than others. Currently, I have in my direct possession an iPhone, and iPod touch, this laptop, a calculator watch and a USB drive.  That's just on my person. Devices designed to connect me to others, to simplify my life, to make information more accessible. All of the technology out there and what do we do with it? Instead of simplifying,

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Just a quick pitch! I'll be on the Dr. Anonymous (http://www.doctoranonymous.com) show tomorrow night at 9pm EST Check it out, if you get the chance, otherwise, it's on iTunes! P.S. He called me out in the promo for not having a blog, so this should hopefully get him off my back :)

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So, this is the first (hopefully of many) official blog posts from me, Dr. Geek. I've been a tech head for 25 years, a doctor for 2 and a blogger for about 3 1/2 minutes. There's nothing that stopped me from blogging before, I simply never took it up. I prefer human interaction with faces and all... Like my aversion to long phone calls (except for maybe voicemail), my "problem" with blogging

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