Are patients with minor ailments visiting the doctor too often?
Yul Ejnes, MD, MACP, continues his monthly column at KevinMD in a post about the reasons for and possible solutions to the phenomenon of people visiting their doctors for minor illnesses such as head colds.
Yul Ejnes, MD, MACP, a past chair of ACP's Board of Regents, a practicing internist in Cranston, R.I., and a member of ACP Internist's editorial board, continues his monthly column at KevinMD. In this post, Dr. Ejnes looks at the reasons for and possible solutions to the phenomenon of people visiting their doctors for minor illnesses such as head colds.