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Practice innovation strategies: Patient-centered care
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United voice will protect physician-patient relationship: AMA CEO

Unifying the physician community and speaking with one voice will ensure the AMA’s “True North”—the physician-patient relationship—remains strong in the face of a semi-chaotic, rapidly changing health care environment, AMA Executive Vice President and CEO James L. Madara, MD said in his address at the 2014 AMA Annual Meeting. 

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Understanding patients' dreams: Inspirations in Medicine

The heart of medicine—the patient-physician relationship—led to moving stories at Inspirations in Medicine, the Friday night kickoff event of the 2014 AMA Annual Meeting. Moderated by Sylvia Perez, the event featured three physicians and one patient telling their personal accounts of how the patient-physician relationship has inspired them.

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Pew got it wrong on advance care planning

There has been a lot of misinformation about advance care planning over the years. The latest in false reporting on this issue is told by Stateline, a news website run by the Pew Charitable Trusts. In an article that appeared this week about possible federal payment policy for advance care planning,

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What makes a successful hospital-physician relationship

Health care delivery models—and relationships between hospitals and physicians—are changing rapidly, but until more systems implement new models, the traditional structure isn’t going away, according to discussions from an industry conference highlighted in an April 18 Health Affairs blog post.

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Where cost and quality converge: Starting the patient conversation

Patient conversations can be tough. Sometimes, it's hard to communicate to a patient that a particular procedure or treatment option may be unnecessary.

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