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Hire a Manager for your Depression!
Is your holiday season this year going to be merry? According to an article published by The Wall Street Journal the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that, “close to 8% of people 50 and older are report current…
Tags: depression, doctors, Families, health care, Medicare, seniors
Brain Injury Recovery – A Work in Process
As Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords makes progress that seems to bode well for her recovery, her upturn has given the public a glimpse into the complex world of brain injury and healing. The brain is an astonishingly intricate and malleable…
Tags: Arizona, brain, Brain Injury, cognitive abilities, compensation strategies, doctors, Gabby Giffords, impairment, injury, nerve cells, neurological rehabilitation, neurons, recovery, scientists, therapists
Too Old and Too Sick for Treatment?
My visceral reaction to the latest report from the Dartmouth Atlas Project, which avers that aggressive care for dying patients is often futile- is nausea. Their findings: Even though a large percentage of Medicare cancer patients represent poor prognoses, health…
Tags: cancer, Center for Health Policy Research, chemotherapy, Dartmouth Atlas Project, Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, David Goodman, Death Panels, disease, doctors, feeding tubes, health care facilities, hospice, intensive care, intubation, Medicare, oncology, Palliative care, patients, Sarah Palin
What’s (holding you) up, Doc?
One of the universal truths seems to be that your doctor’s visit will not happen at the time of your appointment. Doctors are always running late. Always. In fact, Americans waited over 847 million hours for medical services in 2007…
Tags: consumer, doctors, ER, MedWaitTIme, patient, Urgent Care Center
“Did You Say The Opening’s In The BACK?”
Love it when the different passions of my life converge and… beg for a creative solution. Fashion, the Health Care Universe and Marketing all came together in Lucette Lagnado’s article in The Wall St. Journal. So Doctors and Hospitals still…
Tags: designers, doctors, dressing gown, Fashion, Healthcare, Hospitals, Lucette Lagnado, Marketing, Wall Street Journal
