When Alessandro Iannaccone, MD, was recruited in 2005 by Barrett Haik, MD, to come to the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s Hamilton Eye Institute he knew he was following his passion, but little did he know that this move would lead him to be the first in the world to treat a fiv ...
Author documents growing need for pervasive marketing
‘ . . . if a person is going to spend approximately half a million dollars in their lifetime on healthcare, you want that patient for life.’
Advanced Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Union City
Religious studies and biology may not be the most traditional combination of majors that would result in an orthopedic surgeon. But Michael Calfee, MD, has found a way to integrate the two into his practice at Advanced Orthopedics and Sports Medicine in Union City and in his mission work in Honduras.
Administrator, Sports, Orthopedics & Spine
In sports, numbers and teamwork can play a big part in success on the field. In her role as Administrator of Sports, Orthopedics & Spine (SOS) in Jackson, Tennessee, Kay Jordan is finding those two elements equally as important to success in the clinical setting.
Chikungunya and new strains of influenza are among a list of emerging infectious diseases that have grabbed recent headlines, but reemerging diseases including measles and pertussis are also causing epidemiologists concern across the nation.
West Tennessee Healthcare Foundation Celebrates Anniversary with Campaign
The West Tennessee Healthcare Foundation is celebrating the start of its 30th year with a new look! Foundation President Frank McMeen held a news conference yesterday to roll out a new media campaig ...
Report card highlights deficits in children’s physical activity
Remember when P.E. was the ‘easy A’ in school? Evidently that’s no longer true.
The 2014 United States Report Card on Physical Activity for Children & Youth highlights just how far the country has fallen off the honor roll when it comes to getting our school-aged kids to move and play.
Cardiothoracic Surgeon Joins West Tennessee Heart & Vascular Center
Douglas C. Appleby, Jr., MD, DHA, has joined the Cardiothoracic Surgery Center, the surgical arm of the West Tennessee Heart & Vascular Center at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. He brings more th ...
We’ve been meeting together here for almost two years. I’ve shared a few thoughts with you and though the medium doesn’t allow you to share things with me, many of you have through phone calls, email and social media.
Since my last few columns have pretty much been to the point, I decided to provide some history and comedy this month.
Talk about being all about kids. Between managing a busy pediatric practice in Jackson and having raised six children of their own, Amelia and David Self, live, eat, breath and sleep kids.
An early analysis of the federal health exchange
After a very rough start, the federal health exchange managed a healthy rebound before the March 31 general signup deadline. Similarly, state exchanges have hit some glitches but are also now up and running.
Founder/Owner, Physicians Quality Care
After a series of events led Jimmy and Melanie Hoppers, both board-certified physicians to consider leaving their practices, they came to the realization that there had to be a different approach to providing urgent care that was better than what they had been doing.
State Moves to Curb Rx Addiction
Tennessee, like states across the nation, is facing a pervasive problem when it comes to the abuse of prescription drugs, particularly opioids and benzodiazepines.
Senior Expo 2014 in Jackson
The SW Area Agency on Aging & Disability’s Senior Expo will be held on Thursday, May 22, 2014, at the Carl Perkins Civic Center in Jackson. They expect an attendance of 300-400. The overall theme is “Safe Today, Healthy Tomorrow”. In addi ...
You’ve been there. On a flight between somewhere and home, seated next to a stranger on their way to some other place. Conversations are usually light if they happen at all. We’re often trying to catch a nap or speeding our way through some sort of work on the laptop before touchdown.
Physicians in Tennessee have been encouraged by the Tennessee Medical Association (TMA) to “continue improving clinical documentation” in preparation for ICD-10 changes despite the fact that the U.S. Senate on the last day of March voted to delay the implementation of ICD-10 until October 1, 2015.
Bringing Medicine Together
From April 24-27, physicians from across the state gathered in Middle Tennessee to discuss issues impacting medicine, attend targeted educational courses, vote on key policy resolutions, install new officers, network with colleagues, and support Alzheimer’s awareness during MedTenn 2014.
Widespread security issues put systems, patients at risk
Consider yourself warned.
When the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reports were released April 1, the information concerning the amount of money physicians were making, it brought on the obvious reaction from the medical community, including me. In fact, I decided to use the same title for this article that I used in my letter to the editor that appeared in the Commercial Appeal, on April 14.
Heart disease and the feminine mystique
Despite the fact that heart disease is the number one killer of women in America and stroke the leading cause of disability, women often don’t identify with the very real dangers the disease holds for their gender, according to Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar Lisa Rosenbaum, MD.
Family Nurse Practitioner & Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Editor’s note: This month, instead of our regular Physician Spotlight, in honor of nurses we focus on an outstanding nurse who represents the quality of care provided by the profession.
Executive Director, West Tennessee Physicians Alliance
It is the dawn of a new era for the West Tennessee Physicians Alliance (WTPA) as long time Executive Director Tom Reed hands the reigns over to a fresh new face, Dustin Summers.
What do nurses think of doctors? What do doctors think of nurses? More to the point, what do they admire about one another, what do they do to irritate one another, and what can they do to improve their working relationship?
The secret of a successful social media strategy starts with who is in the middle. And that’s not any different than the philosophical and practical approach any successful physician or clinic takes to his/her efforts. Well, at least when the patient is the one at the center of the effort.
