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Health Insurance = Better Health (No kidding)
A report issued this week by JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, reviews a study done by Harvard about the health of Americans and their access to health insurance. More than 7,000...
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Dad — an Empowered Patient Sets a Fine Example
…. and today is his 81st birthday. When people ask me how and why I began doing patient advocacy and empowerment work, I first tell them about my misdiagnosis, and then I tell them it’s because I...
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When Your Doctor Fakes You Out
Empowered patients will be interested in a report today on the study results of a survey of Chicago area internists (family doctors). It seems that 45% of them see nothing wrong in prescribing placebos...
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Why Your Doctor Won’t Help You
Notice that the title doesn’t say “can’t Help You.” It says “won’t.” There’s a big difference. CPT codes are the stuff a doctor’s practice is made from. I know — you thought patients were the basis...
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MRSA: Patients Ignored, Left to Die
(Find an update to this post: MRSA, Victimization and Shooting the Messenger) In the past two days, I have heard three stories, all related to MRSA and other hospital acquired staph infections, and all...
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MRSA: Victimization and Shooting the Messenger
Yesterday’s post, where I told the stories of three (+2) victims of MRSA infections, raised ire, blame and excuses from commentators and emailers alike. Never mind that they were stories of five people...
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Why Does the US Have the Worst Rate of Preventable Deaths Among...
From 2002 to 2003, about 101,000 Americans died from preventable causes ranging from diabetes to bacterial infections and surgical complications, so says a study releases this week. The reports are...
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A Reversal for Alzheimer’s Disease? Maybe. Read Behind the Headline.
Regular readers of this blog know that my mother suffers from Alzheimer’s Disease. That means our entire family suffers from the “long good-bye.” My dad, in particular, has been a saint of a caregiver,...
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ABC’s Eli Stone — Gotta Love a Little Controversy
I’ve watched and heard plenty of controversy from those who are either upset, or elated, that ABC will be airing an episode of its new TV show, Eli Stone, tomorrow night. Eli Stone is a lawyer who...
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Smoking and Botox — Wishful Thinking and Common Sense
The FDA came out with a report on the negatives of botox injections… It’s like deja vu, isn’t it? Where is common sense? Read this post at About.com, Patient Empowerment.
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