politics

While there is a lot on New York’s 2012 Legislative Agenda, there are few policies that affect us as EM physicians as much as the I-STOP Act.  I-STOP stands for the Internet System for Tracking Over-Prescribing.  It serves as a new act to create an on-line controlled substance reporting system, Read more…

As physicians, our job is to know the medicine and take care of patients.  That’s what we signed up to do when we decided to go to medical school.  However, as the years pass, politics and insurance companies seem to be dictating more and more of how we practice medicine.  Read more…