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A recent survey of nearly 1,700 by the California HealthCare Foundation found that 76% of respondents did not have written advance directives even
Continue readingEntertaining, Educating, and Criticizing Our Broken Healthcare System for 22 Years
A recent survey of nearly 1,700 by the California HealthCare Foundation found that 76% of respondents did not have written advance directives even
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Continue readingThe USA Today put out a recent piece discussing the data from the National Center for Health Statistics which showed that for
Continue readingGuten Morgan! This comes from a reader: If you really want European socialized medicine (you personally no, but the masses
Continue readingUnitedHealth wants to have at least 50% of its network under value-based contracting by 2015. How does that sound? Good
Continue readingNew warnings are being added to the labels of cholesterol lowering drugs, such as Lipitor and Crestor, to indicate that
Continue readingA recent NEJM study showed the benefit of getting screening colonoscopies. This is a good thing because colon cancer
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Continue readingDrScore.com analyzed 36,000 patient satisfaction surveys submitted to the website in 2011 for its Annual Report Card and found that the
Continue readingAnyone else see the conflict of interest with Paula Deen pushing unhealthy food and then making money being a diabetes
Continue readingThere have been reports that some antipsychotic medications used for dementia patients cause a slightly higher increase chance of mortality.
Continue readingThe doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human
Continue readingThe CDC is urging primary care physicians to talk to patients about ways to lower their sodium intake by about
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Continue readingCreating an effective and efficient healthcare system is not easy. What is interesting to me is that as we try
Continue reading“We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized
Continue readingA survey of 202 fourth-year medical students and third-year residents at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago found
Continue readingFor those not keeping up with the times, there is a major drug shortage crisis especially with some cancer or anesthetic medications.
Continue readingNo doctor that I know likes to be graded via “physician satisfaction surveys”. The reason is that it magnifies
Continue readingI grew up in NY and was a fan of the 1986 Mets team that won it all. When I
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