See if this doesn’t leave you shaking your head…. a story in the New York Times about access to dermatologists: If you have a mole, and suspect skin cancer, you’ll have to wait an average of 26 days to get an appointment with a dermatologist. If you want a botox injection to eradicate your wrinkles, […]
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I don’t write often on trusting one’s intuition for making health care decisions. I should do it more often. Here’s why: A few years ago I read Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink — an analysis of how we use our unconscious, our intuition, and how accurate it turns out to be. At the time I remember feeling
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I read a story in my local paper yesterday entitled Internet gives angry consumers new power, which began with a story about a man named Sterling Bishop who was unhappy with the work Pep Boys had done on his car. Mr. Bishop made a video showcasing the shoddy work, put it out on You-Tube, and
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Since my post yesterday about the article in the Chicago Tribune about doctors apologizing, a handful of readers have sent me an email asking whether the doctors involved in my misdiagnosis debacle ever apologized to me. Good question! and the answer is yes… and no…. Truth is, I didn’t give them much choice. There were
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Doctors at the University of Illinois Chicago Medical Center are being encouraged to admit medical mistakes and apologize to their patients, so states an article by Judith Graham, published in this week’s Chicago Tribune. Good! And I can’t state that strongly enough. I’ll add, it’s about time, so what took so long, and one down
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Do you have a quick health clinic in a drug or big box store near you? They are called Quick Clinics, Redi-Clinics, Minute Clinics or other names, and you can drop in at any time for basic needs such as a bad cough, a sprained ankle, or whatever other “simple” ailments you or your children
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I have but a few minutes today to provide more info, compliments of Bob, who I mentioned yesterday…. Bob alerted us to this scenario: going in for a check up, he was asked to return the next day for a blood test. When he returned the next day, he was charged another co-pay (and of
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I have but a few minutes today to provide more info, compliments of Bob, who I mentioned yesterday…. Bob alerted us to this scenario: going in for a check up, he was asked to return the next day for a blood test. When he returned the next day, he was charged another co-pay (and of
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