Seven Easy Ways to Maximize Your Health Care Dollar
Health care debt is one of the top reasons for families to declare bankruptcy. Here are seven ways to maximize your health care dollar and tame this financial beast: 1. Emergency Room: The Most...
View ArticleTen Free Ways to Engage Responsibly in Your Health and Reduce the Cost of...
In his inauguration speech today President Barack Obama encouraged us to assume personal responsibility for our lives and ultimately the course of our country. His words inspired me to think of ways...
View ArticleCan Medicine be Green?
Define “Green“ The answer to any question depends on how you define the terms. In this case, how do you define green? What are these people dressed in green doing in such earnest? Obviously some high...
View ArticleHow to Get the Most out of Internet Medicine
Why I Love Patients Who Use the Internet Ten years ago when I was in a group medical practice and patients would bring in reams of paper printed off the Internet, my partner and I would look at each...
View ArticlePatient Choice Cesarean Section (PCCS): Look Before You Leap
The March 2, 2009 article in Time Magazine on VBAC’s and the January 2009 New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) study on elective cesarean delivery give you much to consider as you evaluate your...
View ArticleSustainable Health Care: What is it and How do We Get There?
In the United States we pay more per person (double) for our health care than in any other nation, yet we get less for our money in terms of prevention of deaths that could have been averted by medical...
View ArticleCan we be "Citizens" Rather than "Consumers" of Health Care?
When I was a child I remember my school textbooks and public figures on television referring to the American “citizen”. At some point in the 1970′s or 80′s I stopped hearing the word “citizen” and...
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