Fifty+ years of research in medicine, nursing, dentistry, public health, psychotherapy and many other fields have shown that advance orientation (AO) defuses consumer anxiety, improves compliance, ecological validity, and satisfaction. AO is associated with greater service efficiency, efficacy, and longer lasting outcomes.
Its time to introduce AO to family law.
Private Equity and Your Health Care Costs – Prices Keep Going Up
From the New York Times: Insurance companies have long blamed private-equity-owned hospitals and physician groups for exorbitant billing that drives up health care costs. But a tool backed by private equity is helping insurers make billions of dollars and shift costs to patients.
The tool, Data iSight, is the premier...
Daubert Considerations in Forensic Evaluations by Telepsychiatry
Forensic psychiatrist Patricia R. Recupero, JD, MD offers an extensive examination in light of Daubert of the increased use of telepsychology and telepsychology in forensic examinations
She notes that the COVID-19 pandemic has increased demand for telepsychiatric services. To date, courts have not addressed whether testimony based on a telepsychiatric...
How Are You, Really?
New York Times Science Section write Dana Smith asks “How are you, really?”
She answers: We know we should get a physical exam every year; we have annual reviews at work; some couples even do periodic relationship audits. And yet many of us don’t regularly check in with our emotional...