Their unpleasant illness experiences, which were often due to the prevalent lack of understanding about OAB among many primary care doctors, contributed to participants' personal sense of mismatch with these doctors, which motivated them to shop for others.
Patients' unpleasant illness experiences, stemming from a lack of understanding among many primary care doctors about overactive bladder, contributed to participants' sense of mismatch with these doctors, which induced them to shop for another doctor.
We should consider developing a national physician manpower blueprint that projects how many primary care doctors are needed, and how many specialists and subspecialists are required for efficiently managing the healthcare needs of our country, and only pay for the training slots that conform to those numbers.
Many primary care doctors think so, according to a survey published last week in Archives of Internal Medicine.
But many primary care doctors, including family physicians, defend their adoption of the Neurometrix test and say they are not overusing it.
To make ends meet and earn a reasonable income of, say, $150,000 a year, many primary care doctors have to squeeze more and more patients into the workday.
Lilly's market research had found that many primary care doctors did not consider themselves qualified to treat people with schizophrenia or severe bipolar disorder.
Yet many primary care doctors don't know how to identify a potential drinking problem in their patients or what to do if they suspect a problem may develop.
Many primary care doctors and dentists do not accept Medicaid patients because of low reimbursement rates, and many of the newly insured will be covered through Medicaid.
Despite the growing body of knowledge about falls, many primary care doctors, nurse practitioners and emergency room personnel fail to see a fall for what it is: a golden opportunity to help their patients prevent something much worse.
