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Dr. Wes (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Here's how , courtesy of Mayo Clinic Family Medicine - Arrowhead (Arizona): The discrepancy between what Medicare pays and our cost of providing care acutely impacts the sustainability of our primary care practice. Medicare reimbursements do not cover our actual costs of providing care, and therefore we have recently had to make some difficult decisions that will impact the Arrowhead Family Medicine...
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Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
In medical schools, primary care continues to be among the least respected fields a student can choose. No where is that more starkly illustrated than in Pauline Chen’s recent New York Times piece, where she tells a story of a bright medical student who had the audacity to choose primary care as a career: Kerry wanted to [...] Posted at KevinMD.com . Stay updated and subscribe , follow me on...
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Mothers in Medicine (Free subscription) | yesterday
One of the great advantages of now having self propelling children is that I can go to conferences that rekindle my interest in more general professional topics. I just attended a meeting sponsored by the Society for Women’s Health Research on the topic of adherence to medication—what in the not so distant past was called compliance. Improving adherence to medical advice offers great promise...
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Shrink Rap (Free subscription) | yesterday
Moving on from the Hummus debate... Today's NYTimes has an article called Getting Mental Health Care When Money is Tight . Leslie Alderman writes: According to a recent survey by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (Samhsa, pronounced SAM-suh) , the leading reason that people with mental health issues don’t seek treatment is cost. They fear the fees. The article...
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Motherboard: Parents in Touch (Free subscription) | yesterday
The banner (above) on the home page of the consortium charged with monitoring how local authorities and primary care trusts deliver Aiming High for Disabled Children, a £680million programme charged with transforming services for disabled children and their families, depicts three apparently active children and an adult in a wheelchair. Serco and Contact a Family you have been named and shamed....
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JJS Diabetes (Free subscription) | yesterday
First, we'd like any of our patients to honestly inform us if they believe we have been spending less time with them in the recent past. It has not been planned to do so to date, but, it may come to that if some changes are not made. Almost one-third of doctors in an industry-sponsored survey said they didn't spend enough time with their diabetic patients and blamed low reimbursement rates for diabetes...
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SOCIALIZED MEDICINE (Free subscription) | yesterday
Reports critical of major British public hospital over child abuse Whistleblower fired rather than heeded. "Rocking the boat" is the one unforgiveable sin in a bureaucracy. Too bad about the patients Great Ormond Street Hospital failed to answer senior doctors’ justified concerns about the clinic which failed Baby P [who died of abuse from his carers], according to two secret reports....
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Docuticker (Free subscription) | yesterday
Retail Medical Clinics: Update and Implications – 2009 Report Source: Deloitte Development LLC For satisfied consumers, receiving low-cost, non-urgent health care services at a retail clinic is an attractive alternative to traditional long waits in a physician’s office. As a less costly alternative to primary care physician or emergency room visits, health plans increasingly are covering...
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Fitness Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
More PTSD - Post-Truth Stupidity Disorder. "Childhood obesity is on the rise, and with it comes an increased risk for developing health problems such as type 2 diabetes. The best way to reduce the risk of serious weight-related health issues such as diabetes is to eat healthy and increase physical activity. Researchers at Geisinger Health System's Henry Hood Center for Health Research and the...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
The integration of alcohol screening, treatment and referral into primary care and other medical settings is not routinely done. Nor are there any studies evaluating the effectiveness of integrating care for alcohol use disorders (AUDs) into routine treatment for tuberculosis (TB), despite the high co-occurrence and mortality associated with these two diseases.
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Grasping Reality with Both Hands (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Peter Orszag writes: >**STATEMENT OF ADMINISTRATION POLICY: H.R. 3961 — Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 (Rep. Dingell, D-Michigan, and 6 cosponsors):** >The Administration strongly supports House passage of H.R. 3961, the Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009, and appreciates congressional efforts to ensure that Medicare beneficiaries and TRICARE patients continue...
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The New Health Dialogue (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Over the past year or so, we began detecting some subtle changes in how Democrats were talking about malpractice. They weren't embracing the Republican tort reform agenda, weren't about to start limiting damages and saying "Sorry Charlie" to people who had suffered heartbreaking harm. But they weren't just changing the subject either. They were recognizing a problem, and considering solutions....
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The Entrepreneurial MD (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Google Health released a new study yesterday analyzing "how physicians use the Internet in clinical practices" and "evaluate physicians' perceptions of the Internet". The group of physicians surveyed included both primary care and several specialists - 411 doctors in all participated. The results weren't surprising to me, given that I use Google for everything short of eating and...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
SANTA ROSA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TLCD Architecture, a team of architects, interior designers, and collaborators designing community-oriented projects throughout Northern California, announced today the grand opening of a new Veterans Affairs (VA) Clinic in Santa Rosa that essentially doubles the size and services previously offered to veterans in Sonoma County. The mission of the Veterans Health...
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Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Originally published in HCPLive.com by Colleen O’Leary, RN, MSN, AOCNS Last time I talked about how I had never really experienced the concept of nurses eating their young in action. However, I have seen the opposite begin to evolve. I see this as a bigger issue in nursing these days. The “putting out to pasture” of seasoned, [...] Posted at KevinMD.com . Stay updated and subscribe...
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eprnetwork | 11/09/2009
Medelita®, maker of breakthrough medical apparel, celebrates National Nurse Practitioner Week this November 8 through 14. Nurse practitioners (NPs) are advanced practice nurses who provide high-quality healthcare services similar to those of a doctor. They diagnose and treat a wide range of health problems, and even prescribe medication. This year, nurse practitioners are celebrated for providing “125,000
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aarkstore | 10/21/2009
Public hospitals represent a very important market segment for most biopharmaceutical companies in Europe. They are the often the only market for the increasing numbers of speciality drugs emerging from R&D, with many primary care products also unable to get established for maintenance therapy in the community without hospital recommendation first. Though the processes for achieving hospital usage...
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aarkstore | 09/17/2009
Public hospitals represent a very important market segment for most biopharmaceutical companies in Europe. They are the often the only market for the increasing numbers of speciality drugs emerging from R&D, with many primary care products also unable to get established for maintenance therapy in the community without hospital recommendation first. Though the processes for achieving hospital usage...
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MAXIDEX DEXAMETHASONE WARNING
I had eye surgery and in the post-op pack was MAXIDEX(dexamethasone) drops by ALCON LABS.
Two days later I was BLIND
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en - (not a member) - 10/12/2009
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