The SBHPP Blog

December 8, 2022

Key Updates from the ACC/AHA Evaluation & Diagnosis of Chest Pain Guidelines

Cardiovascular disease remains a significant cause of morbidity and the number one cause of mortality in the United States. Chest pain is one of the most common symptoms prompting patients to seek medical evaluation in primary care and…

December 1, 2022

Charting patient cases: What works for clinicians

It’s estimated that physicians spend an average of 16 minutes on electronic medical records (EMRs) for every patient, with a recent study revealing that all that time adds up to an average of 4.5 hours per day. Perhaps…

November 17, 2022

How successful clinicians reduce stress in the workplace

The American Medical Association’s (AMA) 2022 National Burnout Benchmarking report, which surveyed burnout, stress, and job satisfaction from January 2020 to December 2021, revealed that 72% of the 11,000 physician and health professional respondents were satisfied with their…

November 6, 2022

Anti-depressants for Chronic Pain?!

Did you know that a type of anti-depressant medication might help your patients with chronic pain as well? Serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors, or SNRIs for short, are a class of prescription strength medications that were originally created to treat…

October 12, 2022

Helping Patients Unlock their Patience

Your first patient of the day ran late, and now your whole schedule got turned upside down. Another patient arrived with additional – and unexpected – cardiology issues to discuss. Or you got an emergency call from home…