March 20, 2019
It is interesting that now, with talk of Medicare for All and single-payer health care system being bantered about, a good number of doctors, hospital leaders, pharmaceutical companies executives, and CEOs of insurance companies are banning together to kill these proposals, according to recent news reports. These groups are organizing a massive campaign, they call the Partnership for America's Health Care Future, to provide "counter-messaging" against Medicare for All and to thwart any effort that moves away from the status quo of private insurance and toward a big new public program.
February 18, 2019
Texas Tech Physicians recently partnered with NarrativeDx, a company that retrieves patient comments from social media and Press Ganey, and puts them into a dashboard for easy viewing. Each clinic has a section in the dashboard where users can view positive and negative comments, as well as trending sentiment, areas of opportunity and negative and positive themes.
January 17, 2019
It seems to me we need more plain language in medicine when interacting with our patients. Let’s help them out in our communication—not use so much jargon and multisyllabic words.
December 17, 2018
November 16, 2018
October 18, 2018
For more than ten years, Texas Tech Physicians actively has promoted the SPIRIT values developed by a team within the practice and unanimously approved by the Texas Tech Physicians board. The values include: service excellence, patient first, integrity, respect, innovation and teamwork - and stand for SPIRIT.
October 17, 2018
August 13, 2018
A New York Times article by Amitha Kalaichandran, M.D., caught my eye. The author calls walking "forest bathing." Don't let that name throw you, it is just walking through the woods and observing what you see, hear, smell and experience.
July 17, 2018
This summer, we witnessed a beautiful plan come together with the rescue of the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach from Thailand’s Tham Luang Cave. As the world watched, and against great odds, most of the rescue went flawlessly.
June 15, 2018
In May, Texas Tech Physicians of Lubbock had the best single month of collections for any one month in our entire 49 year history. Think about that. It’s a big statement.