I saw this great patient education video about lost tampons on a blog called Doc Gurley, Posts From an Insane Healthcare System. The blogger appears in the video giving humorous, yet expert, advice about how a tampon can get ''lost'' and what to do about it. Take a look, and then show it to your patients.Self-produced videos aren't difficult to ...

Monday's Bismark (N.D.) Tribune ran a positive article introducing the role of nurse practitioners with a DNP to the public. ''Nurse Who Is Also a Doctor'' featured nurse practitioner Stacey Pfenning, who has a doctor of nursing practice degree. Although the article might lead to some confusion among careful readers about whether a DNP expands an ...

A nice article about nurse practitioners showed up in the New York City edition of yesterday's New York Times. Although titled ''Yes, the P.A. Will See You Now,'' the article looks at both physician assistant and NP roles, and it does a good job covering education, salary and job experience. The reporter does once refer to NPs and PAs as ...

The article starts out promising good PR for nurse practitioners: ''Peggy O'Donnell, a Lynbrook nurse practitioner, knows a thing or two about picking a good primary care physician.'' This is O'Donnell's opportunity to explain that an NP often can be your primary care provider — and even better, that there are studies that show that NP care is ...

Angie's List has plans to let consumers rate their health care providers. The 12-year-old Indianapolis-based company maintains lists of consumer ratings for all kinds of local businesses and services. According to a company press release, the 600,000 list members have been asking for years to add health care providers, hospitals and insurers to ...

A new ripped-from-the-headlines courtroom drama, ''Eli Stone,'' premiers on ABC Thursday night, and in the first episode, our hero (Eli Stone) takes on an evil pharmaceutical company that manufactures children's vaccines. Stone's client is the mother of a child with autism. The episode concludes with a $5.2 million jury award for the mother, ...

  Opening my Providence (Rhode Island) Journal this morning (OK, online), I saw yet another report on physician objections to retail or convenient care clinics. The same article, but with different names, has been showing up about once a week somewhere in the country for the past 3 years. The article always cites physician charges that ...