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            <title>How to complain about your doctor - the legal options</title>
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            <description>The vast majority of patients are usually completely                satisfied with their medical care and are grateful                to their doctor. However, in some cases, problems                can occur, and you need to know what steps you can                take if you are unhappy or dissatisfied with the                outcome of your treatment.             In the first instance, you should try to resolve the problem as quickly as possible. Talk to the doctor or the hospital administration to try and settle matters at the earliest, especially with regard to minor complaints ( such as rude staff, telephone calls not being returned or unpalatable hospital food). Most complaints originate due to seemingly trivial problems.If however, if you have a serious complaint about your medical ...</description>
            <author>The Patient's Doctor</author>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 03:23:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Patientology - the new science of medical practise</title>
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            <description>Patientology is the study of patients - and this is a core skill which all doctors need to learn, even though there is no textbook or syllabus for this !One way all doctors can become better patientologists is by teaching their patients how to become better patients ! Good patients make for good doctors - and it's possible to provide patients with a toolbox of skills which they can learn to help themselves.These tools include teaching patients :how to keep good medical recordshow to talk to doctorshow to ask questionshow to do their homeworkhow to take care of themselves when they are in hospital (Source: The Patient's Doctor)</description>
            <author>The Patient's Doctor</author>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 03:48:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Full Disk Encryption for HIPAA Protected Computers</title>
            <link>http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4151943&amp;cid=t_99713_113_f&amp;fid=34634&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emrandhipaa.com%2Femr-and-hipaa%2F2010%2F11%2F05%2Ffull-disk-encryption-for-hipaa-protected-computers%2F</link>
            <description>In all of the various HIPAA violations I&amp;#8217;ve read about, they almost always blame some lack of encryption on the violation. In most of those cases it&amp;#8217;s a laptop or other mobile device that should have had disk encryption that didn&amp;#8217;t.
The problem I have with disk encryption is that I&amp;#8217;m not familiar with any really easy to implement, but effective solutions for doing full disk encryption on a device.
I&amp;#8217;m not talking about enterprise encryption. I&amp;#8217;m talking about encryption that can work in the small or even solo medical practice. Not to mention at the small clinic price point too.
If you know of a solution, I&amp;#8217;d love to hear about it. 


Related posts:Obama Wants Full EHR by 2014 Obama has held very strong on his commitment of $10...
Full CCHIT Certifi...</description>
            <author>EMR and HIPAA</author>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:58:27 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>NYC Hospital Puts 6800 Health Records Online</title>
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            <description>A New York City hospital has apologized for a security lapse that allowed personal information belonging to as many as 6,800 former patients to be published on the Internet.
New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center says the information included names, clinical data and a few social security numbers.
The hospital said in a statement that the data had been inadvertently placed on a server, which was accessible online. The information has now been taken down. -Source
This is a pretty sad indiscretion although it is lacking some important details. I hate that it only says personal information for 6800 former patients. Ok, putting ANY health information on an insecure web server is just dumb, but not all health information is created equal. Plus, wouldn&amp;#8217;t it be ni...</description>
            <author>EMR and HIPAA</author>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:17:07 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Why are Indian doctors such bad businessmen ?</title>
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            <description>I know lots of doctors, but most of them are not very good at handling money. The fact that they got into medical college means they are bright and must have been in the top of their class, but most of them have very little business sense. Why is this so ?Even though every clinic is a small business, most doctors have no exposure or training in business management . While they are very hard working and intelligent, they are often not good at managing other people or building teams.Sadly, most of them are not willing to learn . One of the occupational hazards of being a doctor is that because they did so well academically, many of them they think they know it all , and cannot be taught anything. How sadly mistaken they are ! If you do not know what you do not know, how will you ever learn n...</description>
            <author>The Patient's Doctor</author>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Why It Sucks To Be A Primary Care Physician</title>
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            <description>DrRich entered medical school 40 years ago with every intention of becoming a general medical practitioner, and indeed he became one. But after only a year in practice as a generalist, he found himself so frustrated with the frivolous limitations and the superfluous obligations that even then were being externally imposed on these supposedly revered professionals, that DrRich altered course and spent several years retraining to become a cardiac electrophysiologist.
(Electrophysiology is a field of endeavor so arcane as to be mystifying even to other cardiologists. DrRich hoped that the officious regulators and stone-witted insurance clerks would be so confused –- and possibly intimidated –- by the mysterious doings of electrophysiologists that they would leave him alone. Happily, this ...</description>
            <author>Better Health</author>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:00:32 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Conversations between surgery, pathology, the humanities &amp; the arts — impressions of the Association for Medical Humanities Conference 2010</title>
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            <description>Founded in 2002, the Association for Medical Humanities (AMH) aims to promote, within the UK and the Republic of Ireland, the medical humanities in education, healthcare and research. It has links with the BMJ journal Medical Humanities and has organized annual academic conferences since 2003. Courses on Medical Humanities are increasing in the UK and can be found at University College London, Durham University, King’s College London, University of Aberdeen, University of Leicester, University of Glasgow, University of Bristol, Birkbeck College University of London, and University of Swansea.
On Monday 5th July the AMH 2010 conference titled &amp;#8216;Humanities at the Cutting Edge: Conversations between surgery, pathology, the humanities &amp; the arts&amp;#8217; opened in Truro, Cornwall, wit...</description>
            <author>Biomedicine on Display</author>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:10:28 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Medical museums and the Janus-faced future of synthetic biology</title>
            <link>http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2912222&amp;cid=t_99713_107_f&amp;fid=34860&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2009%2F10%2F21%2Fmedical-museums-and-the-janus-faced-future-of-synthetic-biology%2F</link>
            <description>Part of the fun of being involved in a medical museum these days is that the notion of &amp;#8216;biomedicine&amp;#8217; is so much broader than traditional medicine and health care taught in faculties of medicine and health science.
As a university institution for biomedical science communication we are, by default as it were, confronted with some of the most fundamental issues in the world today. Financial crisis, atomic weapon threats and global warming  aside &amp;#8212; the rapid technical development in biology and biomedicine raises some pretty hefty social, political and ethical questions which we, as a museum, can hardly avoid dealing with if we want to stay just minimally atuned to the world around us.
Take the issue of synthetic biology. Forget about the potentials benefits ...</description>
            <author>Biomedicine on Display</author>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:40:19 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>BMJ 2009 (Vol 339, No 7724)</title>
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Fade Fave: Doctors must report knife injuries to police under new GMC guidance
Fade Skinny: Doctors should report knife injuries to the police despite the general obligation to keep patients’ information confidential, says new guidance from the General Medical Council.
(NHS Athens is required to access this article online)


Posted in Athens Password, Current Awareness, E-Journals, Journals Tagged: Athens Password, Current Awareness, E-Journals, General Medical Council, Knife injuries (Source: Fade Library)</description>
            <author>Fade Library</author>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:05:10 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Nanotech, health and longevity — who makes the predictions?</title>
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            <description>Last week, Computerworld carried an interview with futurist Ray Kurzweil, who predicts that in 30 or 40 years from now nanomachines will travel through our bodies, repairing damaged cells and organs, effectively wiping out diseases:
The full realization of nanobots will basically eliminate biological disease and aging. I think we&amp;#8217;ll see widespread use in 20 years of [nanotech] devices that perform certain functions for us. In 30 or 40 years, we will overcome disease and aging. The nanobots will scout out organs and cells that need repairs and simply fix them. It will lead to profound extensions of our health and longevity
What&amp;#8217;s interesting is not whether the prognosis is right or wrong, naïve or realistic. Like all med-tech forecasts it probably reflects our own time better...</description>
            <author>Biomedicine on Display</author>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:00:51 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Medical Bloggers Discuss Healthcare Reform</title>
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            <description>I participated in a podcast about healthcare reform.  We first listened to a Q&amp;A between Dr. Val and Dr. Bob Goldberg at CMPI-Advance.  After that we were invited to ask questions.
Dr. Goldberg is into policy, not bedside healthcare, so I think my question threw him for a loop.  I asked about futile care and how it fits in with healthcare reform.  His answer took on a very strong &amp;#8220;ethics&amp;#8221; angle, which is not the direction I had intended for my question to go!
Despite my derailment, the other bloggers that participated in the call asked excellent questions - they are Kim, RN from Emergiblog, Dr. Wes Fisher,  Dr. Edwin Leap, The Happy Hospitalist, and Dr. Brian Vartabedian.
You can listen to the podcast at Better Health.  Thanks Dr. Val for the opportunity to participat...</description>
            <author>code blog: tales of a nurse</author>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:41:35 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Up to the Minute Swine Flu News</title>
            <link>http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2376287&amp;cid=t_99713_111_f&amp;fid=34660&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.codeblog.com%2Farchives%2Fgeneral_medical_happenings%2Fup-to-the-minute-swine-flu-news.html</link>
            <description>Just in case you&amp;#8217;re following this flu business, I&amp;#8217;ve found this feed to be the best source thus far.
I know.  It&amp;#8217;s getting a little tiresome to read about all this flu business, but the first confirmed death in the US was reported today. A very young confirmed death.  :(
(hat tip to Better Health for the link) (Source: code blog: tales of a nurse)</description>
            <author>code blog: tales of a nurse</author>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:13:58 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Live Blogging a Liver Transplant</title>
            <link>http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1865393&amp;cid=t_99713_111_f&amp;fid=34660&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.codeblog.com%2Farchives%2Fgeneral_medical_happenings%2Flive_blogging_a_liver_transpla.html</link>
            <description>Moreena at Falling Down is Also a Gift live-blogged her daughter's third liver transplant. If you want to read from the beginning, here is where she gets the call.
Annika is out of surgery now and is in PICU but not yet out of the woods. Please keep this family in your thoughts and prayers. I'm sure a comment or two of support would not be unappreciated! (Source: code blog: tales of a nurse)</description>
            <author>code blog: tales of a nurse</author>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Oxygen Flow Meter Christmas Tree Uses</title>
            <link>http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1364876&amp;cid=t_99713_111_f&amp;fid=34660&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.codeblog.com%2Farchives%2Fgeneral_medical_happenings%2Foxygen_flow_meter_christmas_tr.html</link>
            <description>ERNursey wants to know: What do you people do with the christmas trees off the flo-meters anyway? Why do you take them off?
Not a comprehensive list by any means:
1. Take them off the flow meter, add some beads, and you can make a kick-ass ID Badge lanyard.
2. A naughty little addition to that voodoo doll you made.
3. As, well, Christmas/fir trees for your kid's miniature doll house yard.
4. They go for about a buck apiece. They're always in demand. I think patients steal them and sell them on the black market.
5. Respiratory Therapy hoards them.
6. Add a little ball on top, some wings on the back, a little halo: instant green angel finger puppet.
Okay, so the real reason we take them off the oxygen flow meters is so that we can put them on the portable oxygen tanks when the patient goes o...</description>
            <author>code blog: tales of a nurse</author>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>LASIK is SAFE!</title>
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            <description>When LASIK eye surgery first appeared on our shores a little more than a decade ago, people (including yours truly) were warned that the long term safety of the new and exciting procedure, which promise perfect eye sight and enabling bespectacled people to discard their cumbersome spectacles once and for all, was unknown. 
Not anymore.
Now a recent article published in the American Journal of Ophthalmology concluded that LASIK for myopia with -10D is a safe after a 10 year follow-up.
Perhaps now, I can book an appointment with the local LASIK surgeon! (Source: Malaysian Medical Resources)</description>
            <author>Malaysian Medical Resources</author>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Working the Night Shift</title>
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            <description>Over at Nursing Voices, there was a recent post about working the night shift as a new grad.
I worked 11p-7a right out of school. I trained on evenings (3p-11p) for a few weeks then switched to night shift. There were no day/evening shift positions at the time. I'd worked nights during school on the weekends as an aide, so it wasn't completely new to me.
But it still completely sucked.
I sleep best at night. I like it dark and quiet. Sleeping during the day, for me, was horrible. Room darkening shades helped, but nothing much helped the noise. The majority of the world is awake during the day, and there are lots of traffic sounds, lawns to be mowed, and doorbells to be rung. At first it was kind of neat, being a full-time child of the night... but the novelty wore off quickly. Driving home...</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 05:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Comment Wars</title>
            <link>http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=830931&amp;cid=t_99713_109_f&amp;fid=34800&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FClinicalPsychologyAndPsychiatryACloserLook%2F%7E3%2F150074832%2Fcomment-wars.html</link>
            <description>I recently posted about Dr. Rita Pal, who is under investigation by the General Medical Council in the UK. There have now been 67 comments written regarding the post, and I suspect the number will continue to rise. Anonymous commenters have made several posts challenging the veracity of Dr. Pal's assertion that she is being investigated for the ludicrous charge of linking to a &quot;secret&quot; document from her blog. Other comments have attacked Dr. Pal from other angles. Dr. Pal has refuted the allegations of the anonymous commenters vigorously. My original post is here and more in-depth reporting can be found at Furious Seasons and the Scientific Misconduct Blog, as well as at the Register, where the story was initially reported.I've not been very impressed with some comments, such as the one th...</description>
            <author>Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry: A Closer Look</author>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:18:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>The Crime of Linking</title>
            <link>http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=824659&amp;cid=t_99713_109_f&amp;fid=34800&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FClinicalPsychologyAndPsychiatryACloserLook%2F%7E3%2F148803131%2Fcrime-of-linking.html</link>
            <description>Both Philip Dawdy and Aubrey Blumsohn (and others) have described the tale of Dr. Rita Pal, who committed the apparently serious offense of linking to a document on her website, lost her job (coincidence?) and is being further investigated by the General Medical Council. The linked document was the transcript of the case of Lisa Blakemore Brown, a British psychologist who was accused of misconduct. Feel free to read my tirade about the ludicrousness of how Blakemore Brown has been persecuted (1, 2).The real killer here is that Pal's fitness to practice medicine is being questioned because she linked to a document that had not a thing to do with patient confidentiality and is entirely unrelated to Pal's fitness to practice medicine. Perhaps someone can explain how linking to a document make...</description>
            <author>Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry: A Closer Look</author>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>How The Other Half Lives</title>
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            <description>I read a lot of ER nurse blogs. I know I've seen a lot - and I know they've seen much more. You think it's an some kind of urban legend when you hear about patients coming in with a
broken nail (by ambulance no less! Where do these people come from?) but no - apparently it happens.
I've also noticed that some blogger ER nurses are frustrated by floor nurses. Girlvet says that floors in her hospital &quot;refuse patients&quot; or won't take report because the admitting nurse is &quot;busy&quot; or &quot;at lunch.&quot; This causes a delay in getting the patient to the floor and ties up the ER bed even longer, causing patients to back up in the waiting room, patient dissatisfaction, the whole sequelae.
And ERnursey says, &quot;Plenty of times when we are holding patients due to staffing there are nurses on the floors with all...</description>
            <author>code blog: tales of a nurse</author>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 04:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Study says Alzheimer’s Patients dying prematurely due to sedatives.</title>
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            <description>A five year study conducted by King&amp;#8217;s College London (funded by the Alzheimer&amp;#8217;s Research Trust) into the use of neuroleptic sedatives for Alzheimer&amp;#8217;s patients with behavioral problems has found that these drugs &amp;#8216;&amp;#8230;were linked with a significant increase in long-term mortality - with patients dying on average six months earlier.&amp;#8217;
The study involved 165 Alzheimer&amp;#8217;s patients in nursing homes who had been given sedative drugs such as Haloperidol (Serenace), Chlorpromazine (Largactil), Thioridazine (Melleril), Trifluoperazine (Stelazine), and Risperidone (Risperdal) for at least three months.
In the Alzheimer&amp;#8217;s Research Trust Press Release (April 2, 2007) Professor Clive Ballard, Professor of Age Related Disorders at King&amp;#8217;s College London, sa...</description>
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            <description>Two Cincinnati-area hospitals, St. Luke and Christ, are engaged in a dispute with regional healthcare group, Health Alliance.&amp;nbsp; The two member hospitals are arguing that the group's leadership have made decisions that endanger their charitable mission to uninsured and indigent in the neighborhoods they serve.&amp;nbsp; In a bit of inspired hyperbole, an Alliance attorney likened the decision to withdraw to &amp;quot;dropping the nuclear bomb.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; Presumably without the mushroom cloud, firestorms, and massive amounts of radioactive fallout. (Source: IT for Healthcare)</description>
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            <description>This was an article published in Lancet in the correspondence titled &amp;#8220;Ten pieces of free software every doctor should have.&amp;#8221;
These are our “top ten” free utilities for computers running the Windows operating system (panel). They are small programs that facilitate common computing tasks and which we use regularly to supplement standard commercial software.
Just thought of [...] (Source: Odysseys of George)</description>
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            <description>This edition of grandrounds is out at Pure Pedantry However, the theme for this edition was based on the ever awaited 79th Annual Academy Awards or better known as the Oscars which would be held on 25th February 2007. I have been nominated too. 
Somehow, I have given up seeing the 4 hour marathon of [...] (Source: Odysseys of George)</description>
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            <description>My initial reaction while reading this piece was that retail clinics would syphon patients away from already hurting private practices.&amp;nbsp; Then this:Michael O’Neil, senior vice president and chief operating officer of
Memorial Health System in South Bend, Ind., says the one-hospital
system’s three MEDPOINT Express clinics have helped bring new patients
into the network. “About 30 percent of the people coming in are not
connected to a provider, and many require subsequent follow-up care,”
he says. “We’re seeing a lot of our affiliated primary-care physicians
get a number of referrals from these operations.”Clearly the folks visiting these retail clinics are gaining much needed care at affordable rates; meanwhile, physicians are benefitting from bringing more of these folks ...</description>
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            <description>January 2007 Edition of All Things Medical (http://rdoctor.com/medical_link/?p=78) is up. (Source: RDoctor Medical Syndication)</description>
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            <description>Look at the daily visits at RDoctor.com   Traffic Growth at RDoctor.com  Previousily we discussed that the The Key is Value of site. (Source: RDoctor Medical Syndication)</description>
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            <description>(http://rdoctor.com/medical_link/?p=75)All things medical - December 14, 2006 is up at RDoctor. Read the December Edition of ALL THINGS MEDICAL. (Source: RDoctor Medical Syndication)</description>
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            <title>All Thing Medical Carnival is up.</title>
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            <description>all things medical (http://blogcarnival.com/bc/cprof_470.html) current issue:Nov 14, 2006RDoctor Medical next issue:Dec 14, 2006All Thing medical. Vol II, Ed 4 all things medicalpast editions Nov 14, 2006RDoctor MedicalOct 09, 2006RDoctor MedicalSep 08, 2006RDoctor Medical PortalAug 28, 2006RDoctor Medical Portal (Source: RDoctor Medical Syndication)</description>
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