AAPA president Stephen Hanson has published an opinion piece, '''Make more of them' isn't the only solution to America's physician shortage,'' in The Bakersfield Californian endorsing PAs as an integral part of the solution to a growing physician shortage.  A Bakersfield resident, Hanson explains how PAs are primed to ...

            One of the primary factors that control salaries of long term care therapists is the reimbursement fee schedule that is established by Medicare. Basically, dollar amounts are set for various levels of care, and each higher category means a higher reimbursement rate. Therapy minutes ...

  ''I can explain it to you, Joey, but the understanding is up to you.'' - Dennis the Menace (by H. Ketcham), 11/23/09   What guidelines do you use when seeking informed consent from your clients? I have often thought about the challenges inherent in the concept of informed consent when interacting with and providing services for ...

There's a ton of great content on our website -- so where do you start? We'll periodically blog the five most popular content items on OT Advance online. See what your fellow OTs are reading on www.advanceweb.com/OT! ADVANCE's 2009 Salary Survey is tops this week, it's always popular: ...

In the last few weeks, I have been a patient, rather than a provider-in-training, on a few separate occasions. As it is the start of a new semester, I've recently caught up on all my doctor appointments and, in doing so, have faced an important reminder about what it's like to be a patient. Because I am in school and learning how to become ...

Hey, all!  Here we are heading toward Thanksgiving and ''all you can eat Turkey Day!''  I crack up when people say, ''Gosh, I feel so tired after Thanksgiving dinner because of all those tryptophans!''  I can't imagine that it just might be from simply eating too much!  But who am I to judge, especially when I am ...

Editor's Note: Below is a blog post from Miquel Valdez, PA-C, on the subject of PA specialty certification. Check back each Monday for a new post, and please feel free to leave comments. If you would like to contribute a blog entry, e-mail assistant editor Heather Simons at hsimons@advanceweb.com. Thanks. I've been putting off making any ...

  One of the questions I get asked often is why I remain a COTA, and not further my degree to an OTR. This is a question I ask myself, and as much as the change would be nice sometimes, there are many reasons why I remain a COTA. Of course the educational factor is first. As much as I enjoy school, the things that come with it such as ...

A recent article in The New York Times discusses how ''Primary Care's Image Problem'' is leading the vast majority of med students into specialties over primary care and how the patient-centered medical home model could alter the course of this alarming trend.   A decreasing number of primary care physicians has ...

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