Molly's Video Clips
In Primary Care medicine the most important contribution the
physician makes to the therapeutic process is time. In
insurance systems, whether governmental or private, there is no way
to compensate the physician for time. This is contrary to the
interests of both patient and physician
(5.4 minutes).
Specialists and hospital services are limited in the time they
are willing to devote to a patient, often not allowing the patient
to understand what the diagnosis is or what is needed for treatment.
In effect, this is
. (2.6
minutes)
Everyone knows of "the graying of America," the increasing proportion of the population that is aged, which is even more so in Marin county, but few stop to think that that means an even larger proportion of patients who are older because they need more medical services. Now, every physician is in part a geriatrician to (3.7 minutes)
Why I made
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Molly makes a
to a 104 year old woman (1.4 minutes)
Knowing about a patient outside of the purely medical context can be advantageous and it can be disadvantageous. Either way it is part of
(3.7 minutes)
The combination of the fee-for-service system of charging and the
insurance model for compensating keeps doctors jumping over and
through
(8.6 minutes)
There are other
that seem to work better for all concerned. (4.9 minutes).
piece5 (finances) (6.5 minutes).
to view it.
Enjoy the video clips which were generously created by Toni Littlejohn, Nancy Bertelson, Michael Litchfield and Roger Kovach. - Molly