Tag: health care system
group name: healthyself
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September 13, 2008 09:13 AM EDT --
JAMA's recent article on the sorry future prospects for primary care (see my previous post at The Country Doc Re port) did catch some headlines in mainstream media, but the story demonstrated . . .
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September 16, 2008 09:13 AM EDT --
Former Oregon governor and ER physician, John Kitzhaber, spoke for the medical staff of an area hospital last evening offering his thoughts on the fundamental flaws of our current healthcare system . . .
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March 25, 2008 03:21 PM EDT --
In 1929 a group of teachers in Dallas received what is generally considered the first modern health care insurance plan. At a rate of fifty dollars per month, they were considered to be pre-paid . . .
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January 14, 2008 11:01 AM EST --
Have you ever gone to your doctor's office and received a small bottle or blister pack containing a medication sample? Chances are good that if your physician is among the 78% of doctors . . .
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January 14, 2008 11:16 AM EST --
Politicians and policy makers often will take a stance that one of the solutions to our health care woes is to reward physicians who provide quality medical care. This isn't too much of a . . .
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March 25, 2008 03:23 PM EDT --
Politicians and policy makers generally look at the decline of the US healthcare system from a broad macro-perspective-numbers of uninsured, newborn mortality rates, the cost of healthcare as a percentage . . .
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April 17, 2008 04:58 PM EDT --
On the second Wednesday of the month for the last eight years a group of ten or so primary care physicians in an average American community has met over dinner for an event known as Journal . . .
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September 12, 2008 09:32 AM EDT --
This week's JAMA takes a look at medical education and the results are not too flattering for primary care. The most startling statistic was that out of 1177 internal medicine residents surveyed . . .
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September 09, 2008 09:24 AM EDT --
Whether it's seeing kids in the office, or doing sports physical at the local high school, or just walking down Main Street in Elma I am struck at how overweight our kids are getting. Nationally . . .
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December 21, 2007 08:36 AM EST --
For those who have read my past writings they'll know that I tend to be somewhat obsessed with the US healthcare system and the practice of medicine in general. At times this takes a philosophical . . .
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August 29, 2007 03:14 PM EDT --
You may have noticed that computer terminals seem to be very slowly popping up in local clinics, hospitals, and emergency rooms. Amazingly, in the generally high tech world of medicine, integration . . .
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September 14, 2007 08:25 AM EDT --
Is it just me or has there been a large increase in the number of medications being labeled with the FDA’s “black-box” warning as of late? Finding myself fixated on this question . . .
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