Dr. Elizabeth Brennan This is Me

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 Web References

1. 1. Dominican Hospital - Santa Cruz

   www.dominicanhospital.org/inde - [Cached]

   Published on: 9/17/1998   Last Visited: 8/11/2001

   Dominican Hospital Medical Staff internist Elizabeth Brennan , MD , doesn't go by the book when it comes to recommendations for exercise. Eschewing the standard prescription of three days a week for 20 minutes , Dr. Brennan , herself a triathlete , recommends that her patients get even more exercise.
   
   What I tell my patients is that I like to see them exercising four to five times a week-five times if they are trying to lose weight , she says. The benefits are just huge : depression , hypertension , diabetes , back problems , arthritis-almost all get better with exercise. Encouraging exercise and getting people to quit smoking are probably the best things I do..
   
   Medical professionals may agree about general health sense-smoking and diets high in fat and cholesterol are bad , exercise is good-but depending upon which profession is advising , the recommendations for ideal fitness may look very different.

2. 2. Press Room (Axolotl)

   staging.keypoint.com/press/ahd - [Cached]

   Published on: 6/20/2001   Last Visited: 9/18/2006

   Internist Elizabeth Brennan, M.D., used to tap nurses on the shoulder and ask them to get laboratory results on her patients out of a computer because she wasn't sure how to operate the device. She didn't know much about communicating electronically and she didn't care to learn, she says. But when she began practicing medicine in Santa Cruz, Calif., last year, her outlook changed.
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   It's easy to understand and convenient, Brennan says. She usually checks the system once an hour, receiving about 30 lab test results and 15 transcribed chart notes as well as several messages from colleagues every day.
   
   "For me, it saves a tremendous amount of time," she says. "I don't see a lot of paperwork."
   
   Brennan and other physicians are using the network thanks to the perseverance of provider organizations in Santa Cruz, which took the extraordinary step of helping launch a startup software company to develop the system when they couldn't find what they wanted on the market.
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   Brennan, like most participating physicians, receives more than 40 transactions a day, not including e-mail messages from colleagues and others.
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   For example, before having the system in place when a patient called to find out about lab results, Brennan would have to order the chart from the medical records department at her clinic and then call the patient back. Using the system, she can look up the results while the patient is still on the phone. "I pop a few buttons, and I have their latest chart notes and all their labs, so we can talk about it," she says.
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   "To have this large a group of local physicians hooked up to the same system is just incredible," Brennan says.