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 'inflated'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:33:24 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4121822&cid=t_216997_83_f&fid=34856&url=http%3A%2F%2Finsidesurgery.com%2F2010%2F10%2Fsurgeon-dr-angel-serafin-martin-sentenced-months-jail-fraud%2F Iowa surgeond Dr. Angel Serafin Martin has been sentenced to six months in jail for fraud involving submitting inflated bills to private and public insurers. (Source: Inside Surgery) Inside Surgery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4121822 Sat, 30 Oct 2010 14:27:28 +0100 4121822 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2793188&cid=t_216997_106_f&fid=34805&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FAwfulPlasticSurgery%2F%7E3%2FKp1tcnJhDE8%2F Lindsay Lohan was in New York... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: Awful Plastic Surgery) Awful Plastic Surgery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2793188 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:22:19 +0100 2793188 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2473211&cid=t_216997_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F1w2H0Azqqr8%2F As discussed in a recent Bloomberg piece, several U.S. senators from both parties are pushing to almost double the recently enacted $8,000 tax credit for first-time homebuyers to $15,000. The same senators are also pushing to remove the current income restrictions — $75,000 for individuals and $150,000 for couples — while also removing the first-time buyer requirement. The intent of the increase, and the original credit, is to increase the demand for housing and to create a “bottom” to the housing market. The flaw of this approach is that it creates a false bottom, one characterized by government-inflated prices and not fundamentals. It was excessive government subsidies into housing that helped create the housing bubble, additional subsidies to re-inflate the bubble will only pr... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2473211 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:07:25 +0100 2473211 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1964088&cid=t_216997_112_f&fid=34971&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdoctorandpatient.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F11%2Fhealth-care-blog-technology-hype-cycle.html :"# Technology Trigger – The initial launch; a new technology reaches public or press attention.# Peak of Inflated Expectations – A few successful applications of the technology (often by highly selected individuals or organizations) help catalyze unrealistic expectations, often aided and abetted by hype driven by word of mouth, the blogosphere, or vendor spin.# Trough of Disillusionment – Virtually no technology can live up to its initial PR. As negative experience mounts, the balloon is pricked and air rushes out. The press moves on to cover another “hotter” technology, like a moth flitting to the light (see Phase II).Hypecycle_2# Slope of Enlightenment – A few hardy individuals and organizations, seeing the technology’s true potential, begin experimenting with it unencumbe... The Patient's Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1964088 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:35:00 +0100 1964088 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1150759&cid=t_216997_109_f&fid=35677&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBrainBasedBusiness%2F%7E3%2F216823549%2Fhow_wine_tricks_a_sober_brain.html This study appears to affirm what we’ve already suspected … that expectations people bring to an experience ... will impact how that experience comes out in the end. Have you seen it happen? In this case ... researchers inflated prices of wines … and then observed the brain’s activity related to perceptions of pleasure. Preferences were shown by brain wave patterns as highest when wines came with inflated prices.Could that be how Sotheby's sold a jeroboam of 1945 Chateau Mouton Rothschild for $310,700 in a New York auction? Most would agree that the research here ...  is far wider reaching than mere wine tasting preferences. What does this study say about marketing … ethics … and fair pricing…  where you work? (Source: ... BrainBasedBusiness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1150759 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:12:33 +0100 1150759