Michel Accad, MD

06/15/2019

The word is getting around. Consumer Reports now says it.

In this report on paying your doctor in cash, Consumer Reports explains the pros and cons of self-paying at a time when more doctors, hospitals, and treatment centers are offering lower prices to patients who pay cash instead of using their health insurance. But it doesn't always make sense to pay l...

05/25/2019

Our guest is Victoria Sweet, author of God's Hotel and Slow Medicine, two of the most important books on medicine in recent times.

04/27/2019

This is a nice video describing some of the benefits of direct primary care. It was put together a couple of years ago by colleagues at Access Healthcare Direct and the DPC Frontier (https://www.dpcfrontier.com/) and kindly made available to all DPC physicians.

04/23/2019

More good press for the direct care movement

Patients who are fed up with the bureaucracy of the health insurance industry are ditching the copays and high deductibles for a different way to get

04/08/2019

Hospital care has become appalling. Read this first person testimony by a physician about how her brother died. The death certificate should say "death caused by a heedless, uncaring medical culture."

In this narrative medicine essay, an internist uses her brother’s slow death after an unnecessary hospitalization characterized by overuse of invasive procedures and no coordination of care to emphasize the importance of a healing and rehabilitation mindset in inpatient care.

03/28/2019

Join us as we speak with Dr. Michael Accad about the future of cardiology.

03/26/2019

"One vision is confidential communication between the patient and a trusted personal physician. The other is 'the healthcare factory, where patients see a physician who sits behind a computer screen transmitting information to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology,' Dr. Singleton writes."

Janus, the ancient Roman god of beginnings and transitions, doorways, endings, and time, was depicted as having two faces: one looking backward to the past and

03/16/2019

I had the pleasure of joining Anthony Diaz on The Show podcast. We had a wide-ranging conversation and we discussed ideas about health that are dear to my heart. You can listen to the episode (~ 24 minutes).

Join us as we speak with Dr. Michael Accad about the future of cardiology.

11/23/2015

Enough with the gloom and doom: 5 hopeful trends in medicine and healthcare.
http://alertandoriented.com/five-hopeful-trends-in-medicine-and-healthcare/

While the main tendency in healthcare is toward more centralization, consolidation, and limitation of choice, there are hopeful countervailing trends at work.

11/09/2015

I was quoted in The Atlantic magazine as part of an article examining the possible harms of "too much exercise.:
Hope you find this informative.
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/12/can-you-ever-exercise-too-much/382892/