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 'health care providers'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:32:48 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5158999&cid=t_233990_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fare-patients-considering-the-idea-of-medical-tourism-to-receive-health-care%2F2011.08.24 I must confess that I have a weakness for medical tourism. Patients have always been ready to go on a pilgrimage to find the world’s leading expert (we call it ‘key opinon leader’ now) hoping to find a cure. As long as traditional leaders in the field of Medicine have been the Germans, the French and the English -with some occasional Austrian and Spanish name in the mix- traffic of wealthy patients across Europe is nothing new. Since we entered the antibiotics era, these leaders started to be located mainly in the United States, the cradle of modern, technology-driven Medicine. Thus hi-tech centers got ready to welcome foreign patients, building strong International Customer Support departments. A random example -by no means the only one- would be the Mayo Clinic. On their website y... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5158999 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:00:07 +0100 5158999 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4684429&cid=t_233990_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F04%2F07%2Fpsychiatrists-are-like-catholics-disliked-by-the-media%2F If you follow the news, you know it’s a bad time to be a psychiatrist. I’d say almost as bad as being a Catholic (especially during the sex scandal … holy Jesus). Apparently they no longer really care about their patients. They are a bunch of greedy Mr. Krabs. They have abandoned psychotherapy, only to pass out samples of the latest drug so that they can get their free lunch from big Pharma. (My sister used to make them … they’re quite good!) And then along comes one of my favorite psychiatrists, Ronald Pies, M.D., to set the story straight. In a World of Psychology post earlier this week, he dissects the front-page article in the March 6 issue of The New York Times. Pies cites some statistics that, yes, indicate there is less psychotherapy today performed in psychiat... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4684429 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 13:39:45 +0100 4684429 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3563952&cid=t_233990_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FIYrgWkD2khU%2F By Michael F. CannonIn this week’s New England Journal of Medicine, MIT health economist and Obama administration consultant Jonathan Gruber responds to claims that ObamaCare will increase health care costs.  Gruber acknowledges the Obama administration’s estimates that ObamaCare will increase health care spending, but compares that to the administration’s estimate that 34 million otherwise uninsured U.S. residents will obtain coverage under the law: [B]y 2019, the United States will be spending $46 billion more on medical care than we do today. In 2010 dollars, this amounts to only $800 per newly insured person — quite a low cost as compared (for example) with the $5,000 average single premium for employer-sponsored insurance. What a bargain!  Of course, Gruber is b... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3563952 Thu, 13 May 2010 16:25:57 +0100 3563952 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3100781&cid=t_233990_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FbmiVeQhPtSY%2F By Alan ReynoldsDuring the runaway inflations of 1974 and 1979, Presidents Ford and Carter suggested that inflation was caused by the profligacy of American households. President Ford’s infamous “Whip Inflation Now” speech, for example, said, “Here is what we must do, what each and every one of you can do: To help increase food and lower prices, grow more and waste less; to help save scarce fuel in the energy crisis, drive less, heat less.” Much of the recent discussion of health care costs likewise treats this as a problem caused by a demonic private insurance industry, and therefore requiring such “reforms” as expanding Medicaid to the non-poor and Medicare to the non-old. The facts are quite different, as shown in “The Evolution of Medical Spending Risk” by Jonathan Gr... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3100781 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:52:23 +0100 3100781 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2588173&cid=t_233990_87_f&fid=38368&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDisruptiveWomenInHealthCare%2F%7E3%2FlVMpUf3cD5U%2F The following guest post on Comparative Effectiveness Research comes from Maria L Kirzecky, R.Ph., MBA, who founded The Kirzecky Group, LLC – a strategic healthcare consultancy specializing in leading organizations to enhance their market position through market-focused business direction, innovative strategies, and sound science-based communications. Why aren’t we as health care professionals clamoring for CER? Why shouldn’t we encourage health care policy makers and industries to align themselves to how we make clinical decisions? Perhaps we haven’t taken the time to fully understand the benefits of CER, how it could directly improve our ability to positively affect the lives of our patients, or we see it as something far-off and impossibly complex to implement. If w... Disruptive Women in Health Care blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2588173 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:00:25 +0100 2588173 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2313542&cid=t_233990_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F04%2F06%2Fhigh-risk-partner-high-risk-of-std%2F You’d think this much would be obvious — if you’re not particular who you sleep around with, don’t be surprised if one day you wake up with a sexually transmitted disease (STD). Yet, now we have research confirming the common wisdom (yay!). The study examined the sexual activities, partner characteristics and STD diagnoses of 412 subjects between the ages of 15 and 24. Among the subjects whose partners were categorized as high-risk, half were diagnosed with an STD. By comparison, about 40 percent of the young adults whose own behaviors were labeled as high-risk were diagnosed with an STD. So what’s the problem? Most health care providers — like your family doc — only ask about your sexual behavior, and so don’t catch folks who actually enga... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2313542 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:05:30 +0100 2313542