RESOURCES

As with any topic nowadays, there is a wealth of information and a myriad of  online sources for medical/health data, facts, knowledge, and guidance.

This page contains a few interesting articles regarding internal medicine and the doctor-patient relationship, a list of our favorite medical sites for patients, and a  few  opinion pieces from Dr. O'Donnell.

We will try to add to it as often as possible and keep it up to date. If you are a patient and have any specific questions about medical or healthcare sources/references or need information about specialists and treatments, please contact us directly.

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Articles

Read these articles to better understand the role of primary care physicians in the healthcare system, to learn about preventive medicine, or just for fun.

• Too many things need physicians' signatures
  
• Lack of emphasis on primary care in healthcare
• The High Costs of Hospitalists
• ​Online physician ratings
•  The Value of Having a Primary Care Doc
• Do Primary Care Physicians Increase Life Expectancy?
• The Importance of Having a PCP
• The Annual Physical: Delivering Value
• Want to Know Why your Doc is Late?
• How to Get your Doctor to Do What you Want
• When your Health Insurer Pays for Breakfast, Here’s What Happens...
• Online Physician Reviews: Patients Are The Ones Who Will Suffer
• Is Direct Primary Care Doomed to Fail?
• The Power of Family Medicine

Medical Sites

Are you relying too much on inaccurate information from Dr. Google? Here is a  list of our top 5 'go-to' sites for patients looking for medical, healthcare or drug related information online.

• MedlinePlus: Produced by the United States National Library of Medicine, the service provides curated consumer health information in English and Spanish.
  
• NIH: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research, founded in the late 1870s. It is part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
• Drugs.com: Provides a free drug-information service to help patients better understand how medicines work: their uses, side effects and potential to interact with other medicines.  
• Mayo Clinic: Mayo Clinic is an American nonprofit organization committed to clinical practice, education and research, providing expert, whole-person care to everyone who needs healing.
  
• Johns Hopkins: The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHUSOM) is the academic medical teaching and research arm of Johns Hopkins University. Johns Hopkins has consistently been among the nation's top medical schools in the number of research grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health.

Opinion

These are articles written by Dr. O'Donnell that might later be part of his blog.

1. May 2018 - Reducing Wasteful Medical Spending