JohnWyatt Crosby
ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 10/26/2012
The 11 best ways to help your patients avoid a nursing home
Here is a good handout for your seniors who are starting to wobble before their wheels fall off. My handout is also available to download. - 10/18/2012
How to get and keep great office staff
Your secretary/office assistant/administrator is your number one ally in treating patients and running your office efficiently. Here are some tips to help with hiring and retaining this all-important staff member. - 10/5/2012
‘Don’t change my prescription’ and other insurance-related pleas from snowbirds
As snowbirds get ready to fly south to escape another cold, dark Canadian winter, they are buying health insurance to avoid being bankrupted by the American system. So if they come in for a blood pressure check and it’s up, they will often say, "Don't change my meds or I can't get insurance." - 9/28/2012
Wanted: a seniors solution
Here are a few things I have learned about seniors and their care over the past 40 years of dealing with them. They make up half of my general practice of 1,400 patients. I care for patients in two nursing homes and I have a 93-year-old mom in a retirement home, a 91-year-old mother-in-law in her own home and a 94-year-old uncle-in-law in a nursing home, so I have a lot of experience. The situation needs some help. - 9/17/2012
10 tips for treating insomnia
Here are some ideas for family physicians on how to treat patients with insomnia, from psychiatrist Dr. Rachel Morehouse, head of the departments of psychiatry at Dalhousie University in Halifax and Memorial University in St. John’s, N.L. She is also medical director of the Atlantic Health Sciences Sleep Centre in Saint John, N.B. - 8/30/2012
The biggest financial mistake doctors make, and how to fix it
When they see doctors coming, bankers rub their hands with glee. How can they not get a better client? Doctors are well-paid, responsible, hard-working and never unemployed. And there is enormous stimuli for us to spend. - 8/23/2012
Bring on the retinal scans already!
I have 14 PIN numbers and they are driving me crazy. Why don’t I have them all in my iPhone? I do, but it’s a pain to look them up when standing in the rain. Recently, I accidently erased my iPhone. - 8/15/2012
How to cut down antibiotic overuse
We have probably all been there. It's 8 p.m. on the day before their vacation and two parents huddle over their two-year-old who has a cold. You are exhausted after a 14-hour day and just want to get home to a nice chilled glass of white wine and the peace and quiet of your living room, sit and stare off into the middle distance and think of nothing. - 7/27/2012
Tips for getting along with your pharmacist
Family doctors in Cambridge, Ont., where I work, had a meeting with local pharmacists and here are some tips for making their job easier—which will help your patients and you. - 7/19/2012
My approach to helping patients lose weight
“Doctor, I don’t eat anything and I’m gaining weight.” When I was young and foolish I used to get really snarky with patients who said this but now that I'm old and wise I remain non-judgmental. A lot of obese patients really don't eat a lot but are immobilized by their weight.
