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September 01, 05:32 PM
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REDDIT WINS
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August 30, 07:58 PM
Bruce Hopper Jr MD empowered by HelloHealth: This is how primary care is meant to be
HIGH-DEDUCTIBLE HEALTH PLANS [CAN] HAVE SOME DOWNSIDES [BUT EMPLOYERS CAN COUNTER THEM]
POSTED ON: August 30th, 2010
TAGS: access | employee health | HDHP | health insurance | health savings account | high deductible health plan | prevention
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August 28, 11:41 AM
“Putting alcohol-based hand cleansers in work places slashed the incidence of several common infections and reduced the number of workdays lost, a randomized trial showed.”
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August 27, 05:35 PM
“Long story short: Screw midtown office buildings, bad lighting, harried front office people, and cold doctors. I’ll take Agile’s spiffy little lime green nook and Dr. Feldman any day.”
YELP Quote that exemplifies Agile Health Partners - West Village - New York, NY - August 27, 09:39 AM
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August 25, 09:57 PM
Problem and Solution
Problem = Expensive health care plan that provides poor customer service and low quality of care
Solution = Direct Pay Medical Practices
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August 17, 11:24 PM
Direct-pay practices are the only sustainable primary care business model that aligns the incentives between the two parties that matter, the patient and the doctor.
Of course this is the answer to affordable primary CARE.
Read the article linked to Jay Parkinson MD’s post from yesterday on group purchasing organizations (GPOs), status quo corporations, and small innovative companies.
direct-pay : third-party :: small, innovative company : GPO :: innovation : status-quo
It’s David vs. Goliath, and we know the ending to the story.
- August 15, 09:47 PM
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August 08, 10:48 PM
JAMA 2010 Placebo vs. Antidepressants - very interesting
Conclusions The magnitude of benefit of antidepressant medication compared with placebo increases with severity of depression symptoms and may be minimal or nonexistent, on average, in patients with mild or moderate symptoms. For patients with very severe depression, the benefit of medications over placebo is substantial.
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August 05, 01:32 PM
“In a staggering feat of twisted logic, lawyers for Coca-Cola are defending the lawsuit by asserting that “no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking vitaminwater was a healthy beverage.”
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August 02, 09:33 PM
Gorilla Glass Demonstration (by Gizmodo)
I’m investing in GLW as they speak…
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August 02, 09:24 PM
Intuit Still Lobbying Hard To Stop Governments From Making It Easy To File Taxes | Techdirt
How about that for Free Market?
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July 31, 10:43 AM
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“These guidelines are really intended to make pediatricians consider insect-bite hypersensitivity as a diagnosis and think twice before referring a child for a skin biopsy or another invasive procedure,” said Bernard Cohen, M.D., director of pediatric dermatology at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center here.
Dr. Cohen and Raquel Hernandez, M.D., developed the guidelines and the mnemonic acronym SCRATCH, which stands for Symmetry, Cluster, Rover, Age, Target/time, Confused, Household, they reported in the July 1 and early online editions of Pediatrics.
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July 28, 07:28 PM
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I want the mini giraffe!
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July 25, 11:09 AM
“In the study, patients who have just seen their doctors will receive an e-mail message directing them to a secure Web site where they can view the signed physician notes. Patients will receive a second e-mail message two weeks prior to any return visit, reminding them that the notes from their previous visit are available for review.”
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July 24, 06:55 PM
“Rank the top 25 FIFA team countries by Toxo rate and you get, in order from the top: Brazil (67 percent), Argentina (52 percent), France (45 percent), Spain (44 percent), and Germany (43 percent). Collectively, these are the teams responsible for eight of the last 10 World Cup overall winners.”
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July 19, 09:29 PM
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July 17, 10:23 AM
“Foodborne illnesses attributed to salsa and guacamole served in restaurants and delis have more than doubled in the last 10 years — resulting in over 100 hospitalizations and three deaths, according to the CDC.”
- July 14, 09:34 PM
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July 11, 08:13 PM
“The American Dental Association does not have an official policy about dealing with wisdom teeth…. pulling an asymptomatic wisdom tooth is like removing a healthy appendix just to prevent the future possibility of appendicitis”
- July 09, 08:13 PM
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July 07, 07:08 PM
What's up with all these kids being allergic to peanuts?
Approximately 3.3 million Americans are allergic to nuts, and even more, 6.9 million, are allergic to seafood. However, all told, serious allergic reactions to foods cause just two thousand hospitalizations per year (out of more than thirty million hospitalizations nationwide). And, at most, only 150 people (both children and adults) die each year from food allergies. Compare that to the fifty people who die each year from bee stings, the hundred who die from lightning strikes, and the forty-five thousand who die from motor vehicle accidents. Or compare that to the ten thousand children who are hospitalized each year for traumatic brain injuries acquired during sports, or the two thousand who drown, or the roughly thirteen hundred who die from gun accidents. Yet there are no calls to end athletics. There are likely thousands of parents who rid their cupboards of peanut butter but not guns. And more children assuredly die walking or being driven to school each year than die of nut allergies.
The question is not whether nut allergies exist, or whether they can occasionally be serious, or whether reasonable accommodations should be made for the few children who have documented serious allergies. The question is, what accounts for society’s extreme response to nut allergies? Not surprisingly, the response bears many of the hallmarks of Mass Psychogenic Illness. A few people have clinically documented concerns, but others who do not then copy the behaviors of those who do. Anxiety spreads from person to person to person, and a sense of proportion and the ability to be reassured are lost.
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July 06, 08:24 PM
My medical school debt is currently $210,816.45
BRILLIANT!
I went to Penn State for medical school and graduated in 2002. For the past two years I’ve been paying $4995 per month to pay off my loans.
This kind of debt essentially forces medical students to enter high-paying specialties. And that’s why your old-school primary care physician will not exist when boomers retire. Less than 5% of med students went into the low-paying specialty, primary care, last year. Why is this a problem? Because a specialist workforce will only increase the cost of care and make it much more disjointed when nobody has a primary care doc to keep your care organized. There are some people trying to figure out how to solve this problem:
The piece, published earlier this month in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, proposes that med schools cut out tuition and fees during medical education, then collect a fixed percentage of income for 10 years after a physician has finished training. Because specialties vary in their training time, a neurosurgeon might not start paying until 13 years after entering med school, while for a family practitioner payment could start as soon as seven years after beginning school.
Using a fixed percentage would help doctors choose a specialty or an employer without worrying as much about how it would affect their ability to repay educational debt, says Weinstein. “Those students who are financially successful in lucrative specialties will return more financial support to their medical school, whereas those in primary care specialties, public health professions or charity work will pay less,” the authors write.
That makes sense to me. Primary care doctors should not be penalized. They are the backbone of a highly functioning, coordinate healthcare system.
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July 05, 04:46 PM
“The results of human twin studies suggest that only 20% to 30% of the variation in survival to an age of about 85 years is determined by genetics”
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July 05, 03:48 PM
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The researchers conducted their study in twins to control for genetic confounders.
Our findings suggest that autonomic tone may be one of the mechanisms linking the Mediterranean diet to a lower rate of cardiovascular events
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July 02, 03:01 PM
Suite 2407. Hellohealth Philly
Just leaving office. Love this space. Designed so well… Thanks JT. Many of its features reflect upon health and the direct patient-doctor collaborative relationship. “Modern medicine the old-fashioned way.”
Just visited Dr. Bruce Hopper’s HelloHealth office. Beautiful space, no wait and back to the way healthcare should be. This is definitely the future of Medicine!
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July 01, 10:59 PM
Alexander Suvorov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“What is difficult in training will become easy in a battle”
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June 27, 05:21 PM
Medical News: Tranexamic Acid Reduces Trauma Deaths - in Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine from MedPage Today
In a large randomized trial, treatment with tranexamic acid reduced the risk… - June 27, 12:43 PM
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June 27, 12:35 PM
“They told the Radiological Society of North America that the best position in which to sit at your desk is leaning back, at about 135 degrees.”
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June 26, 06:47 PM
“Night shift workers experiencing excessive sleepiness felt more awake throughout their shift when treated with armodafinil (Nuvigil),”
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June 26, 06:44 PM
Medical News: Mediterranean Diet Improves Heart Function - in Primary Care, Diet & Nutrition from MedPage Today
The study was limited because it may not be generalizable to women and other ethnic groups. Also, its cross-sectional nature precludes any findings about causality.
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June 26, 06:36 PM
Medical News: Clean Teeth Again Linked to Healthy Heart - in Primary Care, Dental Health from MedPage Today
Further adjustment for socioeconomic status, smoking, physical activity, and visits to the dentist attenuated the link. Additional controls for body mass index, family history of cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and physician-diagnosed diabetes also reduced the relationship but not to the point where significance was lost.
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