…how to be sure you’re really communicating with your hearing impaired patients Do you know whether or not your patients hear everything you say? As a physician, the information you pass along to your patients is very important. But are they reporting that they’re not hearing what you’re telling them? Let me clarify, I’m not saying that they don’t understand what you are … [Read more...] about Can You Hear Me Now?
Good Deeds Summer 2014
Recognizing physicians who are doing community service locally or outside the state or nation Bruce D. Waldholtz, MD Gastroenterology Associates Assistant Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine, EVMS Bruce Waldholtz grew up in a family whose dynamic changed entirely when his grandfather died of lung cancer. “It was the 1950s,” Dr. Waldholtz remembers, “when you didn’t hear … [Read more...] about Good Deeds Summer 2014
Exceptional Professional
Recognizing Outstanding Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants in Hampton Roads Erin Elizabeth Lee, PA-C Orthopaedic & Spine Center Even before she graduated from college and enrolled in a physician’s assistant program, Erin Lee had earned the title ‘surgical assistant.’ Her father, Dr. N. Ray Lee, is an oral and maxillofacial surgeon in Newport News, and she … [Read more...] about Exceptional Professional
The Legal Perspective
Virginia Board of Health Professions Laws and Regulations: What you don't know can hurt you! By Michael Goodman, JD and Eileen Talamante, RN, JD In the Summer 2013 issue of Hampton Roads Physician, we discussed the epidemic of prescription drug use in Virginia and nationwide, the increase in related patient complaints to the Virginia Board of Health Professions, and the … [Read more...] about The Legal Perspective
Emergency Medicine and Trauma Care
The most recent statistics available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that 129.8 million Americans visit the emergency room each year. Of those, 37.9 million are occasioned by injury, and 13.3 percent result in hospital admission. Trauma accounts for many of those hospitalizations. According to the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, … [Read more...] about Emergency Medicine and Trauma Care
