July 2009
17 posts
Put women in charge of health reform
Do you think women would create a system that would have her wait four hours in the ER or two days to see your primary care doctor for a simple UTI? If men got urinary tract infections as frequently as women we would have a far different health care system and same day appointments would be the rule. I mean would a mother create a system were she would wait for 3 hours in the Emergency Room at...
“I don’t have a clue how this can provide “everybody with decent coverage.” But...”
– Oxdown Gazette » The So-Called “Bipartisan” Daschle-Dole-Baker-Mitchell Health Compromise Is Exactly What the Insurance Companies Wanted (via shorterexcerpts)
Stress and Tension in the age of Twitter
I had a few down hours yesterday in my hotel and I decided to treat myself to a massage in the Hotel Spa. It was deep tissue and the gentleman warned me that he had a notorious heavy hand so he let him know. I figured I needed it since I have been working almost daily for months and could use a little stress relief. Now I know first hand what muscle squished between two bones sounds like. Oohhh!...
Care Practice and the next 6 months
Our goal was to build our infrastructure to a point where we could handle the volume of patients we were seeing on a daily basis and integrate new staff and another full-time doctor. I had set the goal of 2,000 patients as an arbitrary marker before taking our next steps, which we passed last month. The next 6 months we will begin to open our doors to the media and start teaching others what we...
Selected from Interview-
Q: When did you decide to open Care Practice?
A: I would have to say it started when I was at an Obama event at Everett Middle School here in San Francisco right before Super Tuesday last year. I was inspired by the campaign and was out canvassing for Obama in Mission Dolores on a rainy Saturday afternoon and I took refuge in Maxfields Coffee. All I could think sitting there sipping my latte...
Care Practice Urgent & Primary Doctors
Care Practice is a medical clinic dedicated to serving the community through personalized and timely medical visits. The clinic is located at 508 A 14th Street in the heart of the San Francisco’s Mission Dolores Neighborhood.
We opened in late September 2008 with a mission to break down the growing barriers put between doctors and patients in the current health care setting and reinstitute...
Our worst marketing idea at Care Practice
We had a funny idea after we opened that we would have a rumage sale infront of the office where all of our employees would bring in all of their unwanted junk from their apartments and we would set it all outside on the sidewalk in front of the clinic on a Sunday afternoon and watch as the masses of people compulsively stopped to get out of their cars and rumage through the piles of junk while we...
