Neil Baum, MD, offers physicians a simple ethics check: Could you comfortably explain your decision to a patient or colleague over coffee?
|Articles|July 28, 2010
Medication Chart
Instead of having patients carry all their medications to every visit, ask them to bring in this simple chart. It's a more efficient way to check for counterindications. You can even give patients a digital copy by saving it to a disk or e-mailing a copy. That makes it easy for patients to update it.
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Instead of having patients carry all their medications to every visit, ask them to bring in this simple chart. It's a more efficient way to check for counter indications. You can even give patients a digital copy by saving it to a disk or e-mailing a copy. That makes it easy for patients to update it.
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