Despite all the hype about consumer-directed care and the ability of financially motivated patients to make good health-care buying decisions, it's long been known that most consumers don't pay attention to the increasing amount of web-based information about doctors and hospitals. A new study by the Center for Studying Health...
A federal rule set to go into affect Jan. 18 will allow doctors and hospitals to withhold the Plan B "morning after" pill from rape victims if they so choose. The rule is designed to protect medical staff whose religious beliefs put even theoretical foetuses ahead of the needs of...
GlaxoSmithKline will become the latest company to publish all its payments to doctors, and those payments will be capped at $150,000 a year, CEO Andrew Witty said. GSK previously opposed doctor-cash transparency. The move -- a stark U-turn -- is a mirror image of the one performed by Eli Lilly...
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator instructions Our first question will come from the line of Shawn Fitz with Stephens. Shawn Fitz – Stephens On the quarter and especially on the profitability, just a question relating to some of your physician training trends. I guess we were surprised by how robust...
Knee supports and ankle supports are mostly used for sprains. There are many kinds of supporters and this is likewise available in sport's stores and can be bought freely by individuals who can manage to not to see the doctor and let their selves heal their pain. Actually, sprains can...
A doctor starting a private practice faces many obstacles to overcome. The cost of practice management software and account software can be extremely costly. After management equipment there is also the durable equipment that a doctor must have in order to diagnose and treat his patients. The cost of durable...
Nurses have long chafed at a perceived "status gap" with doctors, and so in that sense at least, here's some good news: Some specialist nurses now earn more than primary-care doctors. This tidbit comes to us courtesy of Merritt, Hawkins & Associates, a leading physician-recruitment firm, whose...
This document presents some case-studies on the use of water heating system in the Carilion Laundry Services which serves seven hospitals, several doctor's clinics and two athletic clubs. During the nine months of construction, the Carilion Laundry Services operated as usual in the old building while the new one was...
Is the ethical backlash against drug and medical-device company payments to doctors finally changing behavior in the industry's executive suites? That's certainly the impression you'd get from the announcement last week by Zimmer Holdings, a major manufacturer of hip, knee and spinal implants that declared it was...
As a native of Guatemala, Karol Mansilla knew how challenging it was to converse in English when it was not your first language. As a doctor, she knew that miscommunication could have severe consequences. Karol wanted to provide the growing Hispanic population in Richmond, VA, with an office where patients...
A doctor might tell people that they need surgery for a health problem that isn't an emergency. This means that the surgery doesn't have to be done right away. They have time to talk with their doctor and decide what's best for them. Deciding what is best for them could...
Choosing a doctor is an important decision. Doctors differ in many ways, and not all doctors give the same quality of care. Patients who talk freely with their doctors and help to make decisions are often happier with their care. Giving good quality health care means doing the right thing,...
Family doctors have been ascribed a role in monitoring patients and their informal caregivers. Little is known about the factors that might alert physicians to changing circumstances or needs of the caregivers. The study objective was to examine changes in family caregivers' quality of life following an Emergency Department ED...
Late in September 2004, a 76-year-old man from Houston, Texas, who was otherwise feeling healthy and fit, had been experiencing dizziness for nearly a month when he suddenly collapsed in his home. He was rushed by ambulance to the second floor of the Methodist Hospital in Houston, to the endovascular...
A colposcopy is a way your doctor can examine people's genitals, vagina and cervix closely. A colposcope is an instrument that shines a light on the cervix and magnifies the view for their doctor. At the beginning of the exam, they lie back and place their feet in the stirrups...
E-prescribing is one of those no-brainers that has nevertheless taken forever to attain any sort of momentum in U.S. healthcare. But there finally appears to be some good news on that front, thanks to new Medicare incentives that appear to have pushed many doctors to climb on the bandwagon. by...
Three years ago I was 310 pounds, fat and pathetic, with numerous medical problems due to my obesity. I was taking three blood pressure medications and a cholesterol drug, and I used a CPAP machine at night so I could breathe. I could barely walk up and down stairs without...
