When we admit our children into a hospital do we relinquish our custodial rights as parents? As a mother of three, the first thing on my mind when arriving to the hospital in labor was the anticipation of the safe delivery of my child. Even for me, a woman well versed in the quagmire of ...
Businesses are starting to catch on — preventative health care saves money! The New York Times Sept. 2, 2012 article “Health Care Where You Work” discusses a survey conducted last year by Towers Watson and the National Business Group which found that 23 percent of midsize and large employers offered on-site health services and 12 ...
One of the most frequent complaints I get about health care today is that it’s too impersonal. Patients don’t feel like people; they feel like numbers or objects. Their physician may rush through the exam as if the patient doesn’t matter, or fail to explain things fully to the patient. Doctors appointments no longer feel ...
CBS news has discovered that some doctors are using medicine even Bon Jovi wouldn’t approve of — at least 79 U.S. medical practices have been identified by the federal government as purchasing cancer drugs from foreign or unlicensed suppliers. These drugs are illegal for doctors to purchase, as they are not approved by the Food ...
Let’s begin with the response, “When the data tells you to!” I often hear patients say, in response to their treatment plan, “Because my doctor told me I needed it.” I would like to see patients self-advocate by saying, “Well, according to the data provided to me by my doctor after his examination of my ...
You visit the doctor for a routine exam. The co-pay portion is paid on the spot and you assume that your insurance provider picked-up the balance. The next thing you know, you receive that familiar white envelope in the mail – a bill. But wait – you paid your portion, right? In a controversial and ...
FACT – In the past 12 years, the FDA has received more than 95,000 reports of medication errors. These are only the mediation errors that are both discovered AND reported. FACT – One in seven Medicare patients in hospitals experience a medical error. FACT – There is an approximate 98,000 deaths to due medical errors ...
Are you part of the generation that recalls the small local family doctors’ office, where sometimes the same doctor would take care of one generation through the next? The doc would know your name, your spouse’s name, and even the sports team your kids played on? Heck – they would even remember why they had ...
In the modern era of recession-encouraged cost cutting and reality TV shows, some people have made a name for themselves by “extreme couponing.” They get hundreds of dollars worth of groceries for ten, fifteen, twenty dollars. Most people don’t have the time (or the space) for “extreme couponing,” but that doesn’t mean people aren’t looking ...
Patients pay their insurance company to cover medical procedures. The insurance companies make money when the patients are healthy, and the patients don’t pay full value for the medical procedures they do need. Everyone wins. Not the doctors. Patients pay and insurance companies reimburse only for procedures provided. Doctors foot the bill for all the ...
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