Very interesting conversation yesterday with a gentleman named Anthony Cirillo…. Anthony and I are kindred spirits in a couple of different ways. We both hail from marketing backgrounds with probably 50+ years of experience between the two of us. And we’ve both identified a passion within healthcare — me with my Every Patient’s Advocate work, […]
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Ilene Corina of PULSE has been speaking and teaching patients about their role in patient safety for more than ten years. She issues a bi-monthly report which contains interesting tidbits and sometimes something remarkable. The following excerpt comes from her most recent newsletter which can be viewed in at least two ways: a testament to
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I’ve had conversations with dozens of people about Sicko in the two weeks since I’ve seen it. Here’s what I’ve learned in my informal poll: One thing which is less about Sicko and more about a human frailty: that the biggest critics of any movie are the very people who have not viewed it. So
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Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal provided an article by Laura Landro about the use of “proceduralists” in hospitals. This is an idea whose time has come… and we almost have to wonder what on earth took them so long? Landro defines a proceduralist as a medical specialist who is highly skilled in one or two skill-specific
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I’ve been away from life-as-usual for awhile. It’s been a roller coaster: from the lowest of lows losing my mother-in-law to ovarian cancer (you can read more about the problems with treatment here) to the highest of highs — having our four kids and their families visit from all over the country. I’m ready to
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Some final points about the health insurance industry — a few steps beyond Michael Moore…. Private — even not-for-profit — health insurance companies exist in this country for only one reason — to make a profit and to line the pockets of their employees. Hear me out… They are businesses FIRST, many with investors to
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As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, Michael Moore’s movie Sicko provides background on how our American healthcare system has become so dysfuncational, and some of the horrifying ripple effects on the health of our nation. What it fails to mention is one major group of ripples: medical errors and misdiagnoses. According to the US government’s
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As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, Michael Moore’s movie Sicko provides background on how our American healthcare system has become so dysfuncational, and some of the horrifying ripple effects on the health of our nation. What it fails to mention is one major group of ripples: medical errors and misdiagnoses. According to the US government’s
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