Showing posts with label Doctors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Doctors. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 16, 2011

amednews: Revealing their medical errors: Why three doctors went public :: Aug. 15, 2011 ... American Medical News

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In September 2010, Kimberly Hiatt made a medical error. The critical care nurse at Seattle Children's Hospital miscalculated and gave a...
Friday, May 27, 2011

More primary care tied to lower death rates | Reuters

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Seniors living in areas with more primary care have slightly lower death rates and are less likely to end up in the hospital with a prevent...
Thursday, May 5, 2011

The Medical Quack: HealthGrades And Other MD Rating and Referral Sites List “Dead Doctors” on Their MD Information Pages And Even Include the Insurance Plans the “Dead Doctors” Honor

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This just goes to show you can’t really believe every thing you read on the web.  I came across this by accident when doing some searches r...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

7 Things Your Doctor Might Not Explain You

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Visiting a doctor periodically for a check-up and getting tested alone does not prevent you from illnesses or risks. You have to get your m...
Monday, April 11, 2011

Patient complaints do not fit the primary care office visit

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by Kevin Pho, MD Primary care physicians often have to see patients with a litany of issues.  Often within a span of a 15-minute office vis...
Saturday, April 2, 2011

More Physicians Say No to Endless Workdays - NYTimes.com

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Even as a girl, Dr. Kate Dewar seemed destined to inherit the small-town medical practice of her grandfather and father. At 4, she could ex...
Wednesday, March 2, 2011

How patients and doctors can improve the primary care office visit

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Consumer Reports recently released a survey of both patients and primary care doctors , regarding their perceptions of each other. Some in...
Friday, February 11, 2011

Balancing infection control with the patient experience, KevinMD.com

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by Kevin Pho, MD Hospitals have recently been stepping up their infection control procedures, in the wake of news about iatrogenic infectio...
Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Hello Doctor! (Can I Call You M.D.?) - Health Blog - WSJ

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The medical profession feels like it is under siege. The traditional MD trained, post residency doctor was trusted and looked up to as a pi...
Friday, February 4, 2011

New babies and heart attacks don't stop in a blizzard - themorningsun.com

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Snowstorms don’t stop babies from being born, people from being hospitalized, and they don’t stop heart attacks. That means that the matern...
Wednesday, February 2, 2011

More Than Half of Texans Lie About Health and Fitness Habits

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Survey Finds Women More Dishonest Than Men and Correlation Between Weight and Lying DALLAS (January 31, 2011) – At a time when many p...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Nurse and Doctor, Neighbor and Friend By THERESA BROWN, R.N. - NYTimes.com

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“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,” begins Robert Frost’s poem “Mending Wall,” about two neighbors who meet to repair the gaps a...
Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Internet in Medicine: 2000 vs 2010 « ScienceRoll

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Whenever I talk about using social media in medicine to doctors, they seem to think there are more cons than pros regarding this issue. Wel...
Saturday, January 1, 2011

Hospital meals make it difficult to control blood sugars, KevinMD.com

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My mom doesn’t take any diabetes medicine.  She keeps her blood sugars normal through a combination of common sense and careful carbohydrat...
Friday, December 31, 2010

Primary care needs more than 15 minutes for patients, KevinMD.com

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Psychotherapy appointments have traditionally lasted 50 minutes with 10 minutes for paperwork. This has lead to the expression, “the 50-m...
Sunday, December 19, 2010

Everything about medicine is now big business, KevinMD

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Med­i­cine used to be different. Doc­tors couldn’t do too much for you. They didn’t get paid very much and they were focused more on help...
Sunday, December 5, 2010

Most Americans Take Doctor's Advice Without Second Opinion

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Despite the advent of health websites and other widely available sources providing medical research and information, 70% of Americans feel ...

Hospitals should not ban access to social media

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by Howard Luks, MD “Instead of focusing on treating him, an employee said, St. Mary nurses and other hospital staff did the unthinkable: ...
Monday, November 22, 2010

COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease): MedlinePlus

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