Dr. Abraham Verghese, renowned physician author and infectious disease expert, writes about the account of a woman seen at his tertiary care hospital with advanced breast cancer. Her electronic record contained volumes of detailed medical records, imaging, laboratory, and genetic analysis studies. She had been attended by a number of…

This is a question I have pondered for the past ten years. I practiced medicine for several years in Decatur, Illinois as a faculty PA at Southern Illinois School of Medicine Family and Community Medicine. Decatur was an interesting case study in this question. At one time, it was a…

In the previous post I wrote about a new paradigm in health care. You may have heard the term ‘paradigm shift’ used to describe change. One could certainly say that the development and mass availability of television represented a paradigm shift. An entire population simultaneously viewed a live event, such…

As a professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center PA program, my current focus is teaching. However, I do also have 40 years of clinical practice experience, mostly in Emergency Medicine and Acute Care. My teaching position has allowed me the opportunity to research antibiotic resistance with experts from…