2003

Health Savings Accounts and the new Medicare bill

December 15, 2003

Our colleague, Robert Prather at Insults Unpunished, has long championed health savings accounts. The new Medicare bill encourages them – Medicare reform opens up health savings accounts to all Regardless of HSAs’ ultimate popularity, the important thing is a new market option has been added, said Loussedes. The American Medical Association shares that view. “Health [...]

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Another plus for the new Medicare bill

December 14, 2003

New Medicare Law Boosts to Chronic Care The goal of this heightened monitoring is to prevent a medical crisis that could send the patient to the hospital. Such coordinated care for people with chronic illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure is the focus of disease management programs, which got a big [...]

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Favorite lyrics

December 12, 2003

For reasons that I cannot entirely explicate I am interested in identifying particularly moving and relevant lyrics. If you have some favorites, please comment. I will give a few from time to time. Today’s favorite: This ain’t no party This ain’t no disco This ain’t no fooling around viagra free viagra buy viagra online generic [...]

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More on quality

December 12, 2003

I love the intellectual interchange between blogs. Matthew Holt has stimulated my thinking, and hopefully I have reciprocated. As he has updated his entry (with reference to yesterday’s rant), I will respond specifically to a couple of his points. His permalink is working now – QUALITY: Why doesn’t evidence-based medicine happen in practice? Now with [...]

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The British NHS

December 12, 2003

Many physicians still clamor for universal health care in the US. We must look at international models to better guess what such a system would do to our health care. Perhaps we would still have an active private medical care system. Great Britain does. Private health: bigger than NHS! This week, BBC Radio 4 asked [...]

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Holt on quality

December 11, 2003

Matthew Holt of The Health Care Blog fame partially nails this issue – QUALITY: Why doesn’t evidence-based medicine happen in practice? (permalinks do not work, so scroll to Thursday, Dec. 11). My conclusion is that no evidence-based guideline will be perfectly applied. Some don’t take into account the human situation of the patient. Meanwhile physicians [...]

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An article on health care blogs

December 10, 2003

Health ‘blogs’ are multiplying – thanks to Matthew Holt at the Health Care Blog for the link. And yes I am included, along with one of my more erudite comparisons! viagra free viagra buy viagra online generic viagra how does viagra work cheap viagra buy viagra buy viagra online inurl viagra 6 free samples viagra [...]

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Physicians and diabetes management

December 10, 2003

I received this question today: I’m the Living with Diabetes blogger… and something has come up on the insulin pumpers list, that needs to be commented on by a medical doctor, especially one like you who teaches other medical doctors. Several people on the list are amazed, dumbfounded, etc. that both family care physicians and [...]

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On the economy class syndrome

December 10, 2003

Studies confirm risks of ‘economy class syndrome’ This report refers to 3 studies. Those studies show the following risk factors – longer than 6 hour flights, increased age, being overweight, birth control pills. The risk is very low, however, I would recommend (and when I fly I do this) getting out of your seat every [...]

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A conservative view on the Medicare bill

December 9, 2003

While many conservatives have criticized the Medicare bill as being too costly, others have supported it. This columnist does a nice job of emphasizing his positive opinion. Making Medicare Reform Work Conservatives like to point out that only a small percentage of seniors have a problem paying for prescription drugs. In fact, I was one [...]

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