Linda Girgis, MD, FAAFP Linda Girgis, MD, FAAFP

Linda Girgis, MD, FAAFP, is Owner of Girgis Family Medicine LLC. Currently affiliated with St. Peter’s University Hospital and Raritan Bay Hospital, Linda also writes for Sermo, Physician’s Weekly, the Library of Medicine, and others.

Who Will Cover Innovation Costs in the Exam Room?

Perhaps no field is more rapidly innovating than medicine. New discoveries are being made ...

Why Adding Drug Prices to DTC Ads Will Have Little Impact

Soon, all those direct-to-consumer advertisements we see on TV will include drug prices, which ...

Failure Cannot be an Option

While the debate rages on regarding the solution to the opioid crisis, the fact ...

What Doctors Want from the Marketers of the Future

As a doctor in primary care private practice, I frequently get called upon by ...

Redefining Medical Necessity

As doctors, we are skilled in knowing what diagnostic tests are needed to determine ...

Doctors Need New Medications to Treat Patients in Pain

We have all heard the statistics and seen the consequences of the current U.S. ...

What Doctors Want from Pharmaceutical Marketers

“I want just two minutes” is what many pharmaceutical company and sales representatives tell ...

Why the American Health Care Act is Doomed to Fail

Recently the House passed the American Health Care Act (AHCA) in an attempt to ...

Will the 21st Century Cures Act Lead to New Cures?

Late last year, the 21st Century Cures Act was signed into law after it ...

The Delay of Adapting Innovation in Clinical Practice

The medical world is innovating at an ever-increasing speed, especially here in the U.S. ...

Help for Prior-Authorization Overload

Practicing medicine is no longer simply prescribing the medications that we think are best ...

Are Pharmaceutical Reps Really Ancient History?

As many in pharma know, many doctors no longer welcome pharmaceutical reps in their ...

We May Have Hep C Cures—But Do Patients Know?

Since the release of new therapies for Hepatitis C in the past two years, ...