A guest column by the American College of Physicians, exclusive to KevinMD.com.
When I accepted the invitation to write this monthly column for the American College of Physicians (ACP), I assumed it would be a one-year assignment. Even so, I wondered if I could come up with a different topic each month. Now, over 40 columns and four years later, I guess that my fears were unfounded. Ideas for columns appear all the time — in the middle of the workday, on the drive to and from the office, even in the shower — and I probably lose a few ideas because I don’t write them down right away.
Some of the ideas are not “meaty” enough for a full article. So, this month’s column is an anthology of those topics that I can’t fit into 140 characters or express in 800 words.
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Primary care physicians are not happy that other physicians caring for their patients do not send them information. Consultants are not happy that primary care physicians who refer patients to them do not send them information. So why do we need third parties, such as CMS and NCQA, to make us do what we think we should be doing anyway?
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