Reform Issues
Aug 3, 2013
Clearly, FFS is history–been there; done that!
Fixing health care 101
Consider the following...
May 13, 2013
Who's not anxious to excel at cost-cutting, care coordination and quality, lest they be left out?...
Apr 30, 2013
To restrain greedy private insurers....
A predictable result of the absence of a Public Option is...
Apr 28, 2013
The "areas in which the proper reform measures could generate savings that could pay for universal...
Apr 26, 2013
A Painless Way To Hold Down Health Costs?
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"Medicine is different from many...
Evidence-Based Medicine
May 9, 2013
Three poignant cases where over-supply (of docs) leads to over-testing or over-treating...
Apr 23, 2013
Lower Respiratory Tract Infections and Inappropriate Antibiotic Use
Primum non nocere The evidence...
Mar 4, 2013
The Nationally accepted congestive heart failure (CHF) Clinical Guidelines have changed in the...
Jan 17, 2013
It's easier to prescribe antibiotics in a cold, sinsitis or bronchitis than to explain why not. (It...
Oct 17, 2012
You want the best health and well-being for yourself and loved ones, but vitamins and supplements,...
Illness Care
Apr 30, 2013
It's often difficult to maintain a good appetitie and nutritional status when fighting cancer. Here...
Apr 19, 2013
Headaches/Colic: Blame irritation to blood vessels and nervesInfantile colic (intense crying, often...
Jan 1, 2013
In poorly controlled asthmatic children, what works best?
Ans: Long-acting beta agonists (the ones...
Jan 1, 2013
Key Factors for Autism: A 40-year-old woman’s risk of having a child later diagnosed with autism is...
Jan 1, 2013
Strept Cultures and Rapid Strept Tests
Objective. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends...
References
Nov 3, 2012
It seems insurers, doctors and medical corporations will do whatever it takes to maintain their...
Sep 5, 2012
Increasingly, the cost of care is unnecessarily dear, rising exponentially while the return on...
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Resources
Dec 25, 2012
What new docs need to know and never learned in med school
"10 Things Medical School Won't Tell You...
Jan 3, 2013
Related Articles Kaplan Wrote on HCPLive.com:
The Chilling Effect of Cost Containment
"One Cannot...
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Preventive Care
Apr 18, 2013
It's disheartening; the cure for the ills of U.S. health care lies within our grasp, yet it eludes...
Mar 20, 2013
When it comes to health, the better-informed patient does better—Duh!
What is a patient to do to...
May 12, 2013
Can you imagine a child getting sick or harmed from your refusal to protect them? How about the...
Jan 2, 2013
Effectiveness of organized depression care programs is well established, but dissemination will...
Jan 1, 2013
Obesity is a contributor to or a cause of chronic medical and/or surgical conditions including...