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Non-Alternative Facts About the Healthcare System
By JOE FLOWER
The economic fundamentals of healthcare in the United States are unique, amazingly complex, multi-layered and opaque. It takes a lot of work and time to understand them, work and time that few of the experts opining about healthcare on television have done. Once you do understand them, it takes serious independence, a big ornery streak, and maybe a bit of a career death wish to speak publicly about how the industry that pays your speaking and consulting fees should, can, and must strive to make half as much money. Well, I turn 67 this year and I’m cranky as hell, so let’s go.
The Wrong Question
We are ba...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 26, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Be smart: Plan for your own care needs ahead of crisis
Dear Carol: My wife died of cancer three years ago. Her decline was long and slow, so when the end came there was some relief, along with the agonizing grief. I’ve slowly recovered enough to enjoy life. However, I’ve now been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease (EOAD). I also have neuropathy which affects my balance. My wife had a great attitude during her illness and I’m determined to use her as my example for dealing with my own challenges. We had no children, and I have no siblings, but I have many wonderful friends who have been helping me with shopping. I’ve appointed a close friend as Power...
Source: Minding Our Elders - February 11, 2017 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Resist the Evil Fiction That Is Health Insurance
By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE
It has come to pass. President Donald J. Trump. Are you scared? Are you planning to “resist” the policies you imagine President Trump will pursue by tweeting furiously with clever hashtags galore? Would you prefer to move my fastidious quotation marks from “resist” to “President”? This is after all, the first President in a very long time to take office without the blessings and financial support of established “world order” leaders. It must be rather disconcerting to proceed without clear guidance from our betters, especially seeing how well they served us over the last decades, and pa...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 22, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Babies exposed to stimulation get brain boost
Source: The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)Many new parents still think that babies should develop at their own pace, and that they shouldn't be challenged to do things that they're not yet ready for. Infants should learn to roll around under their own power, without any " helpful " nudges, and they shouldn't support their weight before they can stand or walk on their own. They mustn't be potty trained before they are ready for it.According to neuroscientist Audrey van der Meer, a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) this mindset can be traced back to the early 1900s,...
Source: Positive Technology Journal - January 2, 2017 Category: Information Technology Tags: Brain stimulation Brain training & cognitive enhancement Source Type: blogs
I'm Sorry
Dear Mrs J,I would like to express my deepest condolences in the passing of your mother. A magnificent woman, I had the pleasure of being her doctor for almost a decade. And it was a pleasure. During our short visits she regaled me with stories of childhood and often gently sprinkled in advice gleaned from years of experience. Even as she began to decline, we would sit together in the nursing home and she would reach out to hold my hand. She was a gift, your mother. A gift that I in no way deserved.I'm sorry she got cancer. As a physician, there is no word worse than the wordmetastases.&n...
Source: In My Humble Opinion - December 9, 2016 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jordan Grumet Source Type: blogs
How this physical therapist left her insurance nightmare behind
It is time for me to dig out from under the frustrating quagmire of paperwork imposed on me by my insurance contracts so I can reclaim my sanity and love of my work. I am terminating all of my in-network contracts, firing my billing service, and focusing my clinic time and energy entirely on patient care. Removing my practice from the control and limitations of health care insurance companies allows me to continue to offer extended one-on-one quality physical therapy sessions to my patients who are more to me than their injured parts.
I opened my physical therapy practice in 1994 offering extended appointments for compli...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 29, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/kristi-anderson" rel="tag" > Kristi Anderson, PT < /a > Tags: Policy Primary care Source Type: blogs
Bump
Sunday morning is special around here. We used to get the paper daily but now just don ' t have time to read it. So the Sunday paper is special. I get to spread it out and read as much as I want. We also tend to make a nice breakfast to eat together.But this Sunday was a bit different. I was still in my pajamas and barefoot and headed back to our room to get something. As I stepped into our room and stepped on a piece of tulle from one of my craft projects. That was a bit slippery and my feet went one way and I went the other.The resulting damage was from the fact that I landed on my hip, elbow, knee, and shoulder.... I to...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - November 1, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: falls resting Source Type: blogs
Encouraging Integrative, Non-opioid Approaches To Pain: A Policy Agenda
The United States is struggling to deal with an opioid epidemic that is damaging lives, resulting in overdoses, and yet not reducing chronic pain. National initiatives are underway to dramatically reduce access to prescription opioids, but these efforts lack a systematic approach to provide alternative treatments for these patients. Policy changes are urgently needed to provide better care for patients with chronic pain, and in this post, we outline three feasible policy initiatives.
Innovative reimbursement initiatives by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) could frame and stimulate use of evidence-based ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - October 4, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Jason Doctor, Penny Cowan, Daniella Meeker, Patricia Bruckenthal and Joan Broderick Tags: Drugs and Medical Technology Health Professionals Public Health Quality chronic pain Opioid Addiction opioids Source Type: blogs
October Health Awareness Month
In addition to Health Literacy Month, October is also Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Eye Injury Prevention Month, Home Eye Safety Month, National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, National Bullying Prevention Month, National Dental Hygiene Month, National Down Syndrome Awareness Month, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Awareness Month, National Physical Therapy Month, and of course, National Medical Librarians Month.
To help you with planning, Healthfinder.gov puts together the National Health Observances 2016 at a Glance. https://nnlm.gov/bhic/n4gt
Source: BHIC - September 22, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kay Deeney Tags: General Websites Source Type: blogs
More Needles????
I hate needles. I really hate needles. If a needle is near me I can ' t look. If a needle is near anyone else, I leave the room. (Actually sewing needles and knitting needles are fine. Its those icky medical ones that cause me problems.)Now it looks like more needles are in my future. Ick. Double ick!Yesterday I went to see neurosurgery because of increasing pain in my neck. Real pain in my neck, not the literal kind. I do have to deal with the literal pains in the neck (like insurance companies, hospital billing departments, and poor bedside manners). Back in 2014, I was having problems with my right arm. I was sent to se...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - September 22, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: doctors more pain MRI neck pain needles physical therapy Source Type: blogs
5 Hidden Benefits of a Good Massage
Aside from the fact that a good massage makes you feel better, what are some of the other benefits to this practice? As a longtime advocate for massage, I decided to delve into its not-as-well-known aspects to see what else it offers beside a well-spent hour on the table. What I discovered are the following five hidden benefits of a good massage.
Massage loosens muscles
Being in physical therapy for a recent low back pain episode means I’m working muscles that have not seen regular activity for some time. That results in soreness that proves I’m doing things right, but it’s also a little uncomfortable.While the ther...
Source: World of Psychology - September 11, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Suzanne Kane Tags: General Health-related Personal Treatment back pain Immune System Low back pain Lymph Lymph node Lymphatic system Massage Physical Therapy shiatsu Source Type: blogs
Young doctors can set themselves up to be financially free
“Z” and “S” were both hesitant skeptics from the start.
Earlier this year, they’d signed up for an entrepreneurial class I taught. Z was a first-year medical student with a dream of having millions. S was his blonde-haired, model-type wife; ex-ballerina-come-cancer-survivor who wanted to help people with similar experiences.
Before the course, she’d contemplated taking out even more debt in student loans so she could go into physical therapy. After the course, they regrouped, went to work and put together a viable start-up business, all before the start of the next school year.
We got together...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 24, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/natasha-deonarain" rel="tag" > Natasha Deonarain, MD, MBA < /a > Tags: Physician Primary care Source Type: blogs
This is what makes a good doctor
In the medical field, it is said that July, not April, is the cruelest month. It even has a name, the July Effect. In June, hospitals hum and smoothly operate after a year of working out the kinks. In July, they welcome, or dread, the arrival of new recruits: newly minted physicians and medical students, eager to prove themselves, yet raw and untrained. For me, as a senior resident, it is the best time, when the memories of my intern year meet a desire to teach and to mentor this fledgling group. During a teaching session where the interns are quick to flaunt their knowledge by reciting lists of medical facts, one medical ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 2, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/isaac-s-chan" rel="tag" > Isaac S. Chan, MD, PhD < /a > Tags: Physician Cancer Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 1st 2016
Fight Aging! provides a weekly digest of news and commentary for thousands of subscribers interested in the latest longevity science: progress towards the medical control of aging in order to prevent age-related frailty, suffering, and disease, as well as improvements in the present understanding of what works and what doesn't work when it comes to extending healthy life. Expect to see summaries of recent advances in medical research, news from the scientific community, advocacy and fundraising initiatives to help speed work on the repair and reversal of aging, links to online resources, and much more.
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Source: Fight Aging! - July 31, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
OMG, y ' all. SEATTLE.
Mom ' s birthday was last week, so I spent last week in Seattle with Beloved Mother, Sainted Father, Beloved Sister, and The Boyfiend. Other participants included Der Alter Jo, her husband, Archie the Mastiff, and A Number of Wild Animals. Mom and Dad are well, thanks for asking. Dad, after his last tumble-thump, tumble-thump-tumble, has been prescribed a neck brace (to be worn for 90 minutes at a time) and physical therapy three times a week. Mom is still dealing with the occasional Moment when her a-fib gets snarky, but otherwise is okay. Dad has a number of complaints about Seattle and its political leanings, but that ...
Source: Head Nurse - July 23, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: Jo Source Type: blogs
