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Genital herpes are a pain. Genital herpes can affect the genitals, upper thighs, buttocks, or hips. Our doctors can help. We just another service Genital Herpes to our growing list of services for Lemonaid Health! If safe and appropriate, we can prescribe either as needed treatment or daily preventive treatment for recurrent genital herpes. Prescription medicine can be delivered directly to your home in 1 to 2 business days for $50 for 90 day supply of medicine. The service is available to anyone who lives in any of the 50 states or Washington, DC. So long as this isn’t your first genital herpes outbreak, our doctors can give you a prescription for effective treatment. There are 2 different reasons to take genital herpes prescription treatment medicines, an immediate outbreak or daily prevention If you’ve got a herpes outbreak right now you’ll want treatment that helps with your immediate symptoms. These […] Read More »

Our health care system is in crisis and needs significant change. So, I was excited to read Dr. Lisa Rosenbaum’s great February 2019 three part series in the New England Journal of Medicine and accompanied round table about teamwork in health care. Rosenbaum kicks off each piece with a story: how the Brigham’s and Women’s Hospital’s “shock team”, doctors of different specialties, worked seamlessly in a ‘remarkable interaction’, the failure of perfusionist to speak up during a heart transplant surgery when an error occurred and ultimately results in a preventable death of a young man, and a patient who was hospitalized 5 to 6 days longer because the different medical teams were “caught in an endless loop of passing the buck.” Each article then highlights classic research and findings by organizational psychologists and the social sciences to illustrate how we can learn and improve to make the care we provide […] Read More »

So much fun watching smart experts accurately debate disparate points of view. My recent favorites worth watching more than once!   Courtesy of IntelligenceSquared Debates. Topic – The U.S. Health Care System Is Terminally Broken Robert Pearl, Shannon Brownlee, Ezekiel Emanuel, David Feinberg     Malcolm Gladwell and Adam Grant In a special live taping at the 92nd Street Y in New York, Adam talks with Revisionist History’s Malcolm Gladwell about how to avoid doing highly undesirable tasks, what makes an idea interesting, and why Malcolm thinks we shouldn’t root for the underdog. This episode is brought to you by Accenture, Bonobos, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Warby Parker. We’re doing a listener survey about WorkLife with Adam Grant! We’d really appreciate a few minutes of your time to help us improve the show: surveynerds.com/worklife   Also Gladwell and Grant

After an orthodontist blogged about an emergency visit where his patient broke her retainer after watching Michael B Jordan in the blockbuster hit, the Black Panther, the young woman identified herself as the anonymous patient after learning about the story via twitter. Though she was initially quite embarrassed, she was ultimately good-natured about all of the unexpected publicity. The natural question for many health care providers was whether there was a violation of patient privacy or HIPAA? If there was, was there any harm? If there was a violation of patient privacy or HIPAA, what should the consequences be if any? HIPAA Violation? Protecting PHI Alone May Not Be Enough What we know is that the orthodontist in question feels that this blog post was not a HIPAA violation. This much is clear on his tumblr blog. He might be correct on first glance. Classically, health care providers and other […] Read More »