by David Goldschmid, MD From: San Mateo County Medical Association Bulletin, Nov-Dec 2006 Pay for performance. It sounds pretty cool. It sounds like a great idea. Who could say no? You can only imagine hearing Borat say something such as “I like.” There are a couple of issues that strike me as strange though. So […]

by Armand Gelpi, MD From: Sonoma Medicine, the Magazine of the Sonoma County Medical Association, Fall 2006 I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes illness worthwhile. -George Bernard Shaw People must wonder if doctors react the same as their patients to expectations of hospitalization, surgery, pain, possible complications-even death-and to the attentions of […]