Joseph E. Scherger, MD, MPH

Even a basic understanding of current nutrition science and human health allows a physician to use food as medicine and to counsel patients to avoid unhealthy foods.

I do not use annual visits for disease management but rather health promotion.

I am convinced that primary care and much of medicine today are in an “evidence desert”. Let me explain.

Restore Health is devoted to reversing chronic disease and getting patients off medications.

Physicians are the only professionals in society that try to do complex work during brief visits.

How to re-engineer primary care to be attractive and effective.

Physicians are the doers of healthcare, and its time for them to take back control of medicine

Quality primary care takes time with patients, so it’s time for physicians to press for the time needed to truly make needed change.

Medical Economics editorial board member Joseph E. Scherger, MD, shares his opinion about the Supreme Court's Affordable Care Act ruling.