Concierge Medicine Is Here and Growing!!

Concierge medicine: for better or for worse?

25A. Concierge Integrative Medicine Primary Care—Nuts and Bolts

Patients desire personalized patient-centered healthcare and face-to-face time with their primary care clinician during their appointments. Integrative medicine clinical care mirrors the patient desire for longer appointment times and a more comprehensive approach to patients’ overall healthcare needs. Observational studies confirm primary care access can have a great impact on patient outcomes...

Law, medicine, and wealth: does concierge medicine promote health care choice, or is it a barrier to access?

Texas. She teaches courses in health care law, bioethics, and criminal procedure. You may read Professor Carnahan’s full article, Law, Medicine & Wealth: Does Concierge Medicine Promote Health Care Choice, Or Is It A Barrier To Access?, at 17 Stanford University Law & Policy Review 121 (2006). LAW, MEDICINE, AND WEALTH: DOES CONCIERGE MEDICINE PROMOTE HEALTH CARE CHOICE OR IS IT A BARRIER TO AC...

Precision medicine is here, break out your wallet

Every article I have read, and just about every conference I have attended, in the past couple of years has proclaimed the arrival of precision medicine. ‘Precision medicine is finally here!’ This is the message that pervades the media outlets — from online industry journals to the NY Times — each snapping up the sound bites from genomic pioneers bent on revolutionizing health care. This implie...

Psychoanalysis has its place in modern medicine, and neuropsychoanalysis is here to support it

Neuropsychoanalysis is an emerging interdisciplinary field of research aimed at applying neuroscientific findings to the psychoanalytic theory and vice versa (1,2). It links two major conceptual frameworks, neuroscience and psychoanalysis. Each field deals with a distinct subject, although both of them are viewed as two separate aspects of the same matter. While neuroscience studies brain biolo...