MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'account'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:31:23 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4952804&cid=t_153446_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F04p9GU35RGM%2F By Daniel J. MitchellOne of the tax increases buried in Obamacare was an onerous and intrusive “1099″ scheme that would have required businesses to collect tax identification numbers for just about any vendor and then send paperwork to the IRS whenever they did more than $600 of business. Send one of your sales people to New York for a couple of nights? They would have to get the tax ID for the hotel and submit a form to the IRS. Buy a printer for the office? The printer company would need to provide a tax ID and the purchaser would have to submit a form to the IRS. o Have a retirement dinner for somebody in the accounting department? Get the restaurant’s tax ID and submit another form to the IRS. This system was seen as a nightmare, even leading to rather amusing cartoons mocking ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4952804 Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:55:16 +0100 4952804 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4911573&cid=t_153446_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F06%2F07%2Fhow-forensic-psychology-began-and-flourished%2F There are many subsets of psychology. No doubt one of the most fascinating is forensic psychology. Forensic psychology is basically the intersection of psychology and the legal system. It’s quite a broad field. Psychologists work in a variety of settings, including police departments, prisons, courts and juvenile detention centers. And they do everything from assessing whether an incarcerated individual is ready for parole to advising attorneys on jury selection to serving as experts on the stand to counseling cops and their spouses to creating treatment programs for offenders. Most are trained as clinical or counseling psychologists. So how did this interesting specialty emerge and expand? Here’s a brief look at the history of forensic psychology. The Birth of Forensic Psychology The... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4911573 Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:09:18 +0100 4911573 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4225373&cid=t_153446_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F12%2F02%2F5-tips-for-a-low-stress-customer-service-experience%2F “Thank you for calling customer service! My name is Summer. How can I help you?” Wait, it’s after 5 pm. And this is the internet, not a phone. And I’m at my kitchen table, not in my drab fabric-walled cubicle. And I’m not wearing a headset. Let me switch hats for a moment and return to being a writer for the next few minutes. Tomorrow, I celebrate my last day of working in a customer service call center. (Despite the rumors, it’s not an easy gig.) Over the past few years, I’ve been called some less-than-savory names through the phone lines. A few customers have threatened me. Even more have called me a liar, played psychological games with me, and screamed words that their grandmothers would be ashamed to hear. Lesson learned: contacting a customer... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4225373 Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:57:02 +0100 4225373 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3761430&cid=t_153446_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fif-doctors-billed-like-lawyers%2F2010.07.16 From a discussion thread on Medscape (registration required) posted in response to comments on my earlier post entitled “If Lawyers Billed Like Doctors:” Mr. Clark, it appears quite likely you are having a heart attack and will require my services. I will need a retainer of $1,500 via either cash or cashier’s check. This does not cover any treatment, but merely retains me as your physician. Then you will need to deposit $5,000 into an escrow account. I will bill this account for services rendered. My charges are $400 an hour and I bill in 15-minute increments. Which means if it takes me 5 minutes to review your EKG, I still bill for 15 minutes. When the escrow account reaches $1,000 you will need to deposit an additional $4,000 into the account or I will cease to be your ... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3761430 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:00:00 +0100 3761430 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3395112&cid=t_153446_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F3XDrt0gUkyE%2F By Daniel GriswoldLost in the buzz last week over health care was the news that the broadest measure of the U.S. trade deficit fell sharply in 2009 from the year before. According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the U.S. current account deficit plunged from $706 billion in 2008 to $420 billion last year — the smallest deficit since 2001. I’ve been waiting for a few days now for the usual trade deficit hawks to hail this development as great news for millions of Americans looking for work. In years when the trade deficit was rising, it was common practice for the labor-union-friendly Economic Policy Institute to publish detailed studies showing that larger trade deficits caused the U.S. economy to lose hundreds of thousands of jobs each year. For example, according to an October... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3395112 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:25:33 +0100 3395112 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3331273&cid=t_153446_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FPRv9cOR422k%2F By Michael F. CannonPresident Obama evidently thinks that if he promises not to kill health savings accounts (HSAs), opponents will swoon for his government takeover of health care.  If that doesn’t do the trick, he should make clear that his health plan would not eliminate other things too, like the Defense Department and puppies. Of course, that hollow gesture didn’t win the president any Republican support.  But it may have cost him some Democratic support — or at least frayed the nerves of a few House Democrats.  According to CongressDaily: Liberals, meanwhile, are fuming over an addition Obama made to his proposal to make the effort appear bipartisan and possibly switch the votes of moderate Democrats who opposed the House bill last year. The Congressional Progres... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3331273 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:42:23 +0100 3331273 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3331274&cid=t_153446_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FcU7G-VGMFX8%2F By Roger PilonThis afternoon Politico Arena asks: Will the president’s health care remarks today sway enough votes to pass ObamaCare through “reconciliation”? My response: Who knows? What they show beyond all doubt, however, is the mind-set of the president and the bill’s proponents. Consider just a few of his opening words: “Everything there is to say about health care has been said and just about everyone has said it. So now is the time to make a decision about how to finally reform health care so that it works, not just for the insurance companies, but for America’s families and businesses.” Notice first the insinuation that health care works today for the insurance companies, but not for the rest of us. Obama has to have his foil, this man with no ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3331274 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:16:14 +0100 3331274 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3326961&cid=t_153446_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FVDed4mPfv20%2F By Michael F. CannonIn a letter to congressional leaders, President Obama wrote of his openness to including Republican proposals in his health care legislation. Dropping a few Republican ideas into a government takeover of health care is like sterilizing the needle before a lethal injection: a nice thought, but the ultimate outcome is the same. Two of the four Republican ideas – federal grants to states that adopt medical malpractice liability reforms, and ratcheting upward Medicare’s physician-price controls – would increase government spending. The president’s health savings accounts (HSAs) proposal would merely loosen the noose around consumer-directed health plans. Undercover investigations in Medicare and Medicaid are likely to be as unsuccessful as past efforts to comba... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3326961 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:04:19 +0100 3326961 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3290844&cid=t_153446_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F02%2F20%2Fease-of-use-trumps-security-every-time%2F In my recent entry The Buzzkill of Google Buzz, I described how Google used their popular free email program, Gmail, to populate and spread an attempt at building a new social network overnight called “Google Buzz.” They did this by automatically adding people to your network from your contacts list (which is automatically built from anyone you email regularly). The problem was that this exposed your contacts to one another, initially including even their email addresses (which you didn’t realize nor intend when you agreed to Google Buzz that first day it launched). And Google never asked your permission to add these people to your Buzz network. It also shared your Google Reader documents, apparently. (I don’t use Google Reader, so I wasn’t aware of this comp... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3290844 Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:45:54 +0100 3290844 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3079411&cid=t_153446_112_f&fid=34971&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdoctorandpatient.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F12%2Fhow-smart-patients-keep-fit-expert.html This is a guest post from a friend, Amit Goela.--------------------------------------------Dear Doctor Malpani,The following is a fairly detailed account of all that has transpired over the last three months. I will tell you a little bit about health and habits first and then try to give as many details as possible of the events since September.I have had high BP for almost 12 years but it was always controlled with a small dose of Atenol. I have also been over weight, have been a heavy smoker (about 10/12 cigarettes a day) for almost twenty years and would have drinks a couple of times a week but in very moderate quantities. The only thing I was addicted to was smoking and had a sweet tooth. While in Reliance, Mr Ambani inspired me to run and I started doing it fairly regularly. One thing... The Patient's Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3079411 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:46:00 +0100 3079411 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2645264&cid=t_153446_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fx4Uq-hxjADo%2F In a recent article Ralph Nader attacks several critics of Obama’s health care reform proposal, including Cato: Now enters the well-insured libertarian Cato Institute with full-page ads in the Washington Post and The New York Times charging Obama with pursuing government-run health care. A picture of Uncle Sam pointing under the headline “Your New Doctor.” Nonsense. The well-insured people at Cato should know better than to declare that this “government takeover” would “reduce health care quality.” I agree that Cato employees are “well-insured” – a description so appropriate that Nader used it twice in a single paragraph. At Cato we have Health Savings Accounts, which are probably the closest thing to free market health insurance allowed by law. It’s nice to see Nad... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2645264 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:30:47 +0100 2645264 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2639559&cid=t_153446_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F25I6M-p3wGc%2F There may be nothing that more scares advocates of government-controlled health care than giving patients control over their medical treatment.  Thus, it should come as no surprise that the current versions of health care “reform” would kill off Health Savings Accounts (HSAs). Explains John Fund in the Wall Street Journal: Eight million Americans, according to the Treasury Department, are covered by plans with low-cost premiums and high deductibles that are designed for large, unexpected medical costs. Money is also set aside in a savings account to cover the deductibles, and whatever isn’t spent in one year can build up tax-free. Nearly a third of new HSA users, according to Treasury figures, previously had no insurance or bought coverage on their own. These policies will ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2639559 Sun, 26 Jul 2009 02:01:34 +0100 2639559 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2511164&cid=t_153446_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F06%2F17%2Fintroducing-the-psych-central-mood-tracker%2F After taking a look at a few of the mood trackers that have long been available online, I was very unsatisfied with both how they asked you about your mood (”How depressed are you today?”) and the results they displayed (can we say “unhelpful”?). Mood trackers are used to help you track your emotional state on a daily or weekly basis, helping you get a better grasp on your emotions. Mood trackers can also help you determine your treatment’s effectiveness over time. Like a screening quiz for depression or anxiety, you typically can’t just ask a person, “How depressed are you?” and get any kind of answer that you can hang your hat on. People aren’t always the best judge of their own mood states — especially when they are in the down... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2511164 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:04:19 +0100 2511164 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1970829&cid=t_153446_177_f&fid=38134&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbabybound.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F11%2F17%2Fi-might-need-a-sedative-soon%2F Do all couples fight about money?  Cause Mark and I are fighting right now about this very topic. I don’t seem to be winning and well?  That never happens.  WTF? I am in charge of our money.  Why?  Because I actually put bills in a filing cabinet rather than the bottom of a gym bag.  End of story. Mark likes to pretend our bank account is like a water faucet:  always there, never empty, tastes great with crystal light white grape. I want him to think of it as a drinking fountain at the park:  always available, but should be approached with caution and never ever touched with his bare hands. I cannot seem to beat this concept into his pea size brain get him to understand and its driving me insane.  Every time I look at our account, I get angry.  There’s always withdra... B a b y B o u n d blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1970829 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:31:40 +0100 1970829 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1160989&cid=t_153446_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F01%2F18%2Fthe-cause-of-schizophrenia-remains-unclear%2F For all of the money, energy and focus that has gone into gene studies on schizophrenia, two findings this week call into question much of that effort. The first one has been widely reported yesterday, Parasite May Lead to Schizophrenia. The parasite? Good ‘ole toxoplasma gondii, a common organism carried by carried by cats and farm animals. In most cases, the parasite is harmless (except for pregnant women, who have long been taught to avoid handling cat litter when pregnant). But in the latest study, researchers found that 7 percent of people with schizophrenia had this parasite, compared to only 5 percent in people who were not diagnosed with schizophrenia. That puts someone who has this parasite at a 24% increased risk of also getting schizophrenia. The second study, not yet ... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1160989 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:04:44 +0100 1160989 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1097644&cid=t_153446_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2007%2F12%2F16%2Fthe-shrinks-ive-known%2F I like it when people talk about their therapy experiences, both good and bad. The more people read about others’ experiences with therapy, the more open, perhaps, they will be to considering therapy themselves. Psychotherapy is such a mysterious process to many people who haven’t tried it, so such stories take some of the mystery out of it. But not everyone’s story with psychotherapy is a positive or happy one. Some people try it many different times with many different professionals and never quite find the right fit. Others simply don’t find the process very helpful at all. And reading those experiences are just as important, because just like most treatments for mental disorders, one size does not fit all. So I enjoyed reading in today’s Boston Globe Mag... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1097644 Sun, 16 Dec 2007 15:48:23 +0100 1097644