“If my life is just about winning championships—if it’s just about being the best—then I’m running the wrong race,” he said. “That’s empty. But if it’s about trying to be excellent and do things the right way, to honor the university that’s hired you, the athletic director you work for and the young men you’re…
Did you ever see those ads or commercials asking if you had Medicare and that you can get any back brace for free? I had always thought it was a scam. Well, I was right. I am not sure if they were the same people arrested but I hope so. Medicare scam that peddled unneeded…
In a shocking study (to no one), “kids with cold symptoms seen via telemedicine visits were far more likely to be prescribed antibiotics than those who went to a doctor’s office or clinic”. Crazy, right? You would think that a doctor with NO relationship to the patient would REALLY hold their ground against an angry…
Okay, this one is going to be delicate. Physicians are on both sides of the political aisle. I rarely venture into the political world here because it is so divisive. I will talk about it when it concerns our healthcare system, which remains broken for many reasons. If don’t know my thoughts on how to…
As if no one knew this: Where people receive health care matters, especially in terms of costs. The same services may have a much higher price tag when performed in one setting rather than another, but this price difference is rarely publicized to patients. To understand what settings people used and how prices differed, we…
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Would you mistakenly pay for something over and over again? Of course not. But what if it wasn’t your money? You may not care as much. Well, it turns out that “Medicare made more than $23 billion in improper payments in fiscal 2017, a government watchdog report found, largely due to scant or no documentation. The Government…
This news is unbelievable. Maybe the health insurers realized that the public was onto them. I don’t even know. All I care about is that health insurance is now affordable. It looks like the plans have no restrictions on pre-existing conditions but they are still have high deductibles. They seem to cover less bogus maintenance…
I found this article is so naive and cute. The author seems amazed that when a doctor leaves a hospital system the staff will NOT tell a patient where they went. The doctor just vanishes and the patients feel ghosted by it. This is called punishment and not ghosting. This is what hospitals do. This…