by DrMelissaBoylan | Feb 17, 2022 | Blog
Assembly Line Medicine – Part 5 –The Bottom Line Welcome back for Part 5 – the last in the series – of my Assembly Line Medicine blog posts, my commentary on Ms. Devorah Goldman’s recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece titled, “The Doctor’s Office Becomes an...
by DrMelissaBoylan | Feb 10, 2022 | Blog
Assembly-Line Medicine Part 4 – Insubordination and Entrepreneurship Welcome back for Part 4 of Assembly Line Medicine blog series, my commentary on Ms. Devorah Goldman’s recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece titled, “The Doctor’s Office Becomes an Assembly Line.”...
by DrMelissaBoylan | Feb 4, 2022 | Blog
Assembly Line Medicine – Part 3 – Big Box Medicine Welcome back for Part 3 of my Assembly Line Medicine blog series, my commentary on Ms. Devorah Goldman’s recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece titled, “The Doctor’s Office Becomes an Assembly Line.” You can read...
by DrMelissaBoylan | Jan 24, 2022 | Blog
Assembly Line Medicine – Part 2 – The Disappearance of Private Practices Welcome back for Part 2 of my Assembly Line Medicine blog series, my commentary on Ms. Devorah Goldman’s recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece titled, “The Doctor’s Office Becomes an Assembly...
by DrMelissaBoylan | Jan 19, 2022 | Blog
Assembly Line Medicine – Part 1 – The reason Noreta Family Medicine Exists One of Noreta’s patients recently brought in an opinion piece written by Devorah Goldman, a visiting fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and senior editor at Mosaic magazine, from...
by DrMelissaBoylan | Dec 12, 2021 | Blog
Modern Medicine Welcomes the Return of Old-Fashioned Service! What happened to the days when you knew more about your doctor than just their name? What happened to the days when if you got sick on the weekend, you could just pick up the phone and talk to YOUR doctor?...
by DrMelissaBoylan | Nov 22, 2021 | Blog
Fact or Fiction? How to Find Medical Information You Can Trust Online medical information is EVERYWHERE! You see advertisements for new medicines as you shop for clothes. Flashy graphics coax you into clicking on an ad promising a “miracle cure” while you try to order...
by DrMelissaBoylan | Nov 15, 2021 | Blog
Just Breathe November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month, so I am joining the campaign to increase awareness by writing this blog post. Hopefully you will learn a few things! I’d like to give a shout out to several of Noreta’s patients who are currently...
by DrMelissaBoylan | Nov 1, 2021 | Blog
A Pinch of Salt, a Lifetime of Health Salt is essential to our survival, but we’ve gone overboard with how much we eat in the past 50 years! Salt is important for several body functions including Nerve signaling Muscle functioning Maintaining a balance of water...
by DrMelissaBoylan | Oct 13, 2021 | Blog
Forgive me, it’s my kidney! I’ve had a few patients come in with kidney disease recently and so here’s some information on this topic that I bet you don’t know much about! What do the Kidneys do? Each of your two kidneys acts as a screen, filtering excess water,...