Vice President, Primary Care Eisenhower Medical Center
Family Medicine
Dr. Joseph E. Scherger, MD
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Joseph E. Scherger, MD practices Family Medicine. He researched medicine at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA is a top medical university. David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA has a rank of 13 in research and a 7 in primary care He received 8 awards: "Top Doc in San Diego", "Served on the Institute of Medicine Committee on the Quality of Health Care in America", "AAMC Humanism in Medicine Award", "Thomas W. Johnson Award", "Elected Member", "Outstanding Clinical Instructor", "Family Physician of the Year" and "President". Doctor Joseph E. Scherger, MD is also published. He has 96 publications published. The lastest publication: "Which culprit is causing your patient's otorrhea?' Dr. Joseph E. Scherger accepts all Medicare patients.
Publications
- Examine the patient, not just the evidence.
- Do physicians communicate the adverse effects of medications that older patients want to hear?
- PSA screening: The USPSTF got it wrong.
- Remembering Ian McWhinney.
- The inherent cost-effectiveness of family physicians.
- PCMH: the future requires practice transformation. Goal is to improve patient population health, better manage chronic disease, and build a team to accomplish it.
- Employed physicians: lower productivity but higher quality of care?
- Interactions for the 21st century.
- It's time to optimize primary care for a healthier population.
- What does the match mean for the growth and development of family medicine?
- What is proper medication for patients with strep throat?
- Meaningful use of HIT saves lives.
- Engaging physicians to adopt healthcare information technology.
- Are you on the health information technology bandwagon?
- Online reviews of physicians: what are your patients posting about you?
- Future vision: is family medicine ready for patient-directed care?
- The 3 tech questions.
- Evaluating and treating the patient with hypothyroid disease.
- Preparing the personal physician for practice (P(4)): essential skills for new family physicians and how residency programs may provide them.
- Family medicine needs a generation of dreamers.
- Residencies: heal thyself before extending.
- The end of the beginning: the redesign imperative in family medicine.
- Student interest in family medicine: a strategy for success during difficult times.
- An international physician education program to support the recent introduction of family medicine in Egypt.
- E-mail "visits" can save you time.
- An inspiring letter.
- Online communication with patients: making it work.
- Communicating with your patients online.
- Risk management in obstetric care for family physicians: results of a 10-year project.
- Great guide to error reduction.
- When to begin treatment in patients with elevated TSH levels?
- The impact of antihypertensive drug therapy on quality of life.
- A nurse practitioner in a family practice residency: role description and impact on continuity of the practitioner-patient relationship.
- The use of epidemiologic methods in family practice.
- Family medicine for primary care.
- General and family practice-epitomes of progress: gardnerella vaginitis.
- General and family practice-important advances in clinical medicine: premenstrual syndrome.
- General and family practice: ultrasound in obstetrics-safety considerations.
- A special birth, a special baby.
- Medical student''s perspective on preceptors in family practice.
- Factors influencing family physicians to continue providing obstetric care.
- Models of family practice.
- Teaching family-centered perinatal care in family medicine, Part 2.
- More on student specialty selection.
- Teaching family-centered perinatal care in family medicine, Part I.
- Responses to questions about family practice as a career.
- Labor and birth care.
- Obstetric care, Medicaid, and family physicians. How policy changes affect physicians' attitudes.
- Ethics, jurisprudence, and economics in the medical school curriculum.
- My favorite patients are on Medicaid.
- Should there be a merger to a single primary care specialty for the 21st century? An opposing view.
- Responses to questions by medical students about family practice.
- RAST testing vs. skin testing.
- Training residents for the future: final draft report. The STFM Task Force on Training Residents for the Future.
- Career guidance for medical students with an interest in family practice.
- Where is family medicine in medical education?
- The subspecialization of family medicine.
- The family physician delivering babies: an endangered species.
- Priorities in family medicine residency education.
- STFM (Society of Family Medicine) response to the GPEP (General Professional Education of the Physician) report.
- Changing gloves between vaginal and rectal examination: an additional reason.
- Clinical skills as teaching skills.
- Routine screening for gestational diabetes reconsidered.
- Responses to questions frequently asked by medical students about family practice.
- The family in family practice.
- Comparison of diagnostic methods of family practice and internal medicine residents.
- More pearls.
- The second revolution in family practice has begun.
- Practice management research.
- Management of normal labor and birth.
- Retraining specialists for primary care.
- Successful technique for treating ingrown toenails.
- Medical student teaching and family physicians' use of time.
- Does the personal physician continue in managed care?
- Tips for preceptors who teach medical students in managed care settings.
- It's time to put medical students back to work.
- Phase three of academic family medicine.
- Lidocaine-prilocaine cream for pain during circumcision.
- Obesity as a chronic disease.
- The 1-hour advising session: helping students choose family practice.
- Stable coronary artery disease.
- The AAFP research initiative.
- Primary care physicians and specialists as personal physicians: can there be harmony?
- Which culprit is causing your patient's otorrhea?
- Scope and consequences of peptic ulcer disease. How important is asymptomatic Helicobacter pylori infection?
- Recognizing peptic ulcer disease. Keys to clinical and laboratory diagnosis.
- Practical advice on eradicating Helicobacter pylori infection.
- The impact of obstetrical liability on access to perinatal care in the rural United States.
- Zafirlukast in clinical practice: results of the Accolate Clinical Experience and Pharmacoepidemiology Trial (ACCEPT) in patients with asthma.
- Responses to questions about the specialty of family practice as a career.
- Views of managed care.
- Family practice residencies in the 21st century: how much old? How much new?
- The Internet--don't teach without it.
- Identifying structural hip and knee problems. Patient age, history, and limited examination may be all that's needed.
- Primary care training for ob-gyn practitioners.
Schools
David Geffen School Of Medicine At UCLA University Of California Los Angeles
University Washington
Doctors Specialties
- Family Medicine
Accepted Insurances
- Open Access
- Blue Card PPO
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of California PPO
- Cigna PPO
- Medicare Advantage PFFS
- Humana
- Medicaid
- Medicare MCR
- Kaiser PHCS Network PPO
- MultiPlan PPO
- PHCS Network PPO
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
Awards
- Top Doc in San Diego
- Served on the Institute of Medicine Committee on the Quality of Health Care in America
- AAMC Humanism in Medicine Award
- Thomas W. Johnson Award
- Elected Member
- Outstanding Clinical Instructor
- Family Physician of the Year
- President
Education
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University of Washington -
University of Washington School Public Health -
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1881610939 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | SCHERGER | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | JOSEPH | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 922536834 | |
| NPPES Provider State | CA | |
| Specialty Description | Family Practice | |
| Total Claim Count | 2269.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 2.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 39.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 1.72 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1881610939 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | SCHERGER |
| First Name Of The Provider | JOSEPH |
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