I spoke to a group called the Institute of Retired Professionals yesterday. My talk was entitled Ten Tools You Can Use to Improve Your Medical Care. I just love presenting to folks who ask intelligent questions and can quickly make the leap to how to use my healthcare-consumer based points. This group, sponsored by Syracuse […]
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If you are a woman with fibroid tumors, pay attention! There may be an option your GYN isn’t telling you about — and it may save you from surgery…. …. this according to Dr. Frank Vogel, the interventional radiologist I interviewed yesterday for my radio show. Fibroids are benign tumors of the uterus and many
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A report by HealthDay News, and carried by the likes of Forbes, reports that 94% of all physicians accept gifts from pharmaceutical companies in exchange for consideration of prescribing their drugs. The HealthDay News report was based on findings published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Gifts can be as simple as food and
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I’ll admit it. I was very skeptical when a link for a research report about the cost of hospital infections to hospitals — was sent to me. I’ve never typed these words out loud before, but I’ve always thought that one reasons hospitals ignored (didn’t try to alleviate) MRSA and other hospital-acquired-infections (HAIs) is because
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This morning on my radio show, we aired my interview with Dr. Sharon Brangman, geriatrician and expert in Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementias. As the daughter of a mother who is in the advanced stages of this horrible disease, I was moved to tears by the conversation. It was an opportunity to learn more about
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This morning on my radio show, we aired my interview with Dr. Sharon Brangman, geriatrician and expert in Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementias. As the daughter of a mother who is in the advanced stages of this horrible disease, I was moved to tears by the conversation. It was an opportunity to learn more about
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There’s a movement underway among primary care physicians to shift their sources of income, and it could have a profound effect on how we patients view our relationships with our doctors, not to mention our outcomes when it comes to medical problems. If you remember the Marcus Welby days, or if you’re old enough to
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Hospitals may SAY they are trying to improve patient safety, but the errors are increasing anyway. While mandating that error rates improve, and making loud noises so the public thinks they mean it, hospitals are at the same time tying at least an arm, and possibly a leg behind their worker’s backs. More patients are
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