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 'chronically'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:32:08 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4419136&cid=t_178470_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fthe-hot-spotters-is-better-care-for-the-neediest-patients-the-answer-to-lower-healthcare-costs%2F2011.01.31 Author-physician Dr. Atul Gawande has done it again with a well-written article in The New Yorker magazine entitled, “The Hot Spotters.” It deals with the fact that 5 percent of people with chronic illness make up over 50 percent of all healthcare costs. If we can zero in on providing better preventive care for those people, we can finally get our arms around runaway healthcare costs. How great that you don’t even have to have a New Yorker subscription to read it. Here are a few cliff notes until you get to it: – In Camden, New Jersey, one percent of patients account for one-third of the city’s medical costs. By just focusing attention on the social and medical outpatient needs of those people, they not only got healthier but costs were cut in half. &#8... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4419136 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4419136 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2321740&cid=t_178470_129_f&fid=36035&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.everydayhealth.com%2Fblog%2Flife-with-chronic-pain%2Fabuse-isnt-always-physical%2F Individuals who suffer chronic pain or live with some form of disability often face more than disease, deformity or adaptation. Many chronically ill people live with physical abuse but there are many others who suffer psychological damage by a spouse, a caregiver or another family member. Insults, belittling, threats and severe criticism can hurt as much as physical abuse. You just don’t have an outward bruise to show for it. The wounds to self-esteem, confidence and the joy in relationships can be taken away by another individual without leaving a mark on you; except that large knife wound to the very heart of who you are. Sometimes the loved ones and friends of the chronically ill, like us, don’t understand what we are dealing with every single day of our lives. They get tired of our... Life with Chronic Pain blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2321740 Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:44:00 +0100 2321740 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=985816&cid=t_178470_117_f&fid=34612&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedoctorweighsin.com%2Fjournal%2F2007%2F10%2F28%2Fmore-sick-children-are-dying-at-home-at-that-is-a-good-thing.html by Pat SalberIt is always unbearably sad to learn about a child's death.  But for families with children living with complex chronic conditions, such as progressive neuromuscular diseases or cancer, it is something they must be prepared to deal with.   The miracles of modern medicine simply cannot cure every serious childhood illness.  Given that, what do we know about where these children die?  A recent study, led by Chris Feudtner, MD, PhD, MPH and colleagues, published in JAMA (June 27, 2007) documented that increasingly these children are dying at home instead of in the hospital - and I believe that is a good thing, allowing both the child and loved ones the comfort and privacy we all want to have at the end of life.  Advances in techno... The Doctor Weighs In blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=985816 Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:56:32 +0100 985816 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=856850&cid=t_178470_111_f&fid=36048&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAHeartyLife%2F%7E3%2F154548326%2F Today kicks off National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week. It runs September 10th through the 16th. What is an invisible chronic illness? If you have an illness and it can’t be seen from the outside, you have it. That would include diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, autism, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, migraines, chronic back pain, eating disorders, multiple sclerosis and mental illness, just to name a few.Actually over 95% of chronic illness is invisible. Laura from CFS Squared sent me a link to a great website that is officially hosting an area to come together and “feel that there is someone else that gets it”. Go check out all that it offers including… articles, things to buy, chat rooms and a very funny “10 things not to say to a chronically ill person”... A Hearty Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=856850 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:35:54 +0100 856850