Can healthcare become equitable when physician compensation is anything but?
Read MoreThings My Mother Told Me
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There’s a type of magnet called a “rare-earth” toy magnet that is very tiny and extremely powerful — up to 30x more than a regular kitchen magnet. They are commercially available under various brand names and while they are ostensibly intended for adults, they are very attractive to children, many of whom have swallowed them….These magnets are so strong that they can literally pull two different areas of the intestines together, requiring invasive surgery.
Read MoreWomen's Health Has a Shaky Foundation in Medicine
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“If you are having a stroke, there is about a 9 percent chance you will be misdiagnosed in the ER — a statistic that applies to all age groups when the patient is seen initially in the ER. But if you are young, female, a person of color or have limited education (less than a high school degree), your risk of misdiagnosis soars,” according to one expert cited in this article from the Washington Post. For women, apparently, that risk is a whopping 30% higher than the norm.
Read More"Maybe You're Just Someone with Blood in their Urine"
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A quick and memorable read about a woman who persisted in her search for a medical explanation where doctors and imaging were turning up none. Had she not, she would likely have died from an aggressive form of kidney cancer, a diagnosis made more difficult by the fact that she didn’t “fit'“ the profile of the typical patient.
A Country Doctor on Fear of Guns
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“In this age of school, workplace and church shootings, everyone is preparing for such scenarios. We are always reminded not to bring people inside the “secure” areas of our clinics who don’t have an appointment or a true medical emergency.” — Hans Duvefelt, a Swedish-born rural Family Physician in Maine, in his blog A Patient in the Lobby Refuses to Leave: Medical Emergency, Unhappy Customer or Active Shooter?
Read MoreWhole Health - What Medicaid Gets Right
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“Whole person care” and “social determinants of health” refer to practices and beliefs active among professionals serving health consumers covered by Medicaid, where income, housing status, nutrition as well as social and behavioral needs are taken into account in the treatment of patients more regularly than is the case in many commercial plans.
Read MoreNew Report Takes Aim at Creating Safer Schools
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Kids in the U.S. aged 5-14 years old are more than 20 times more likely to be killed by a gun than their peers in other high income countries.
Read More14 Billion Pills, 6 Years, #1 Market Share, How Many Lives Harmed or Lost?
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The Drug Enforcement Administration has a database that tracks the path of every single pain pill sold in the United States, as it moves from manufacturer and distributor to pharmacy across every town and city. Now it has been made public for the first time.
Read MoreTruth in Video and Crayon
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“This is truly a very dark spot in U.S. history,” Colleen Kraft, the former president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, told CNN. “This will be remembered as a time when the U.S. was cruel to immigrant children. It makes me wonder what kind of country are we that we would treat children this way.”
Read MoreMoney Can’t Buy Me Love…Or Health
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Money has everything and nothing to do with health. It’s a leading indicator of life expectancy, it can keep people on life support medical equipment for days, weeks, months and years, it can pay premiums, doctors, hospitals and pharmacies, but in our system of healthcare, it can’t buy the things that work best at keeping people healthy. Adding insult to injury, the way you think of your own health likely has little to do with how your specialist, insurance company and perhaps even your regular doctor or nurse sees you.
Read MoreYet Another Cruel Policy
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Since 2016, the U.S. has seen an unrelenting assault on children, damaging to their health and driving up healthcare costs.
Read MoreChild Hunger Isn’t Healthy→
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As many as one in six children in the U.S. go hungry. It’s bad for their health, but what you may not realize is that it’s bad for your health too, placing even greater strain on a system that is already deficient in primary care resources.
Read More33%< of Measles Victims < 5 Years Old
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Highly contagious, very preventable, measles is now a major concern for many parents of young and school age children.
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The Enormous Burden of Gun Violence in the U.S.
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Gun violence is wreaking havoc and sowing despair in the lives of Americans every day.
Read MoreDoctor Whodunit→
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The road to self-diagnosis is paved with temptations: the ubiquity of information, the desire for instant answers, the inconvenience of finding and getting to the right doctor at the right time…the list goes on and on.
Read MoreSugar Consumption: Eye of the Beholder
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When it comes to sugar, most people think they eat less than everyone else.
Read MoreConsumers Are Informing Themselves...So What?
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Nearly 75% say they research healthcare on their own.
Read MoreA Bad Case of Incentives→
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“An investigation by the Wall Street Journal revealed that U.S. health insurers who manage Medicare's Part D drug plans pocketed an extra $9.1B from 2006 - 2015 by overestimating their costs for the programs.”
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