An elderly friend recounted this story to me. He’s upset. I’m upset. And I expect by the time we’re finished, the doctor will be more than a little upset, too. Mr. Z is 90 years old, and except for macular degeneration which renders him mostly blind, he is very healthy and quite sharp. He lives […]
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Dr. Marcia Angell, a senior lecturer at Harvard, gives us all good advice in the column she wrote this week in the Boston Globe called Longing for Days the Doctor Still Advised. In her column, she follows the “history” of the role of patient as participant in decision-making about his/her own health care. In effect,
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Once again we find prescription drugs at the center of debate — and we patients are the ones who will be hurt by it. (so what else is new?) The AP, including the Washington Post, Forbes , TV news and others are reporting that three pharm drugs approved for anemia have been promoted and used
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I’m visiting my parents for a week. They live in a retirement /transitional living center in Florida where my mother resides in the memory center (she is an Alzheimer’s patient) and my dad lives in the same building in a beautiful apartment. It allows them to spend time together each day, and it’s remarkable how
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A couple weeks ago I wrote about oncologists who recommend chemo to their patients and then profit from those chemo drugs they’ve recommended. One doctor I talked to said that oncologists are the only doctors who do have that “privilege.” I haven’t been able to verify that, however…. A whole ‘nuther part of this conversation
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That’s the theme that popped up time after time, segment after segment, this morning as we taped my weekly radio show. One interview took place with Dr. Dale Avers, an associate professor of the physical therapy education program at SUNY Upstate. Our conversation on the show was about total knee replacement and the physical therapy
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This month’s AARP Magazine has a good article about finding trustworthy health and medical information online written by David Kushner. (I tried to find it on their website to provide you with a link, but it doesn’t seem to be there.) There is some excellent advice — points I share with readers and workshop attendees
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This month’s AARP Magazine has a good article about finding trustworthy health and medical information online written by David Kushner. (I tried to find it on their website to provide you with a link, but it doesn’t seem to be there.) There is some excellent advice — points I share with readers and workshop attendees
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