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Reforming health care (Part VI): Why not reform health care?

In the months before the 2008 presidential election, polls indicated health-care reform was high on the list of problems that most voters wanted...
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Reforming health care (Part V): Adjust insurance involvement

Lately, much is being made of the terrible state of health care in this country. Democrats say the government has to do something about it....
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Reforming health care (Part III): Standardize records

As I noted in the second part of this series, computerizing medical records is one of the hottest topics in any discussion about improving health...
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Reforming health care (Part II): Standardize forms

A couple of the changes on everybody’s health-care reform list are standardizing insurance forms and computerizing medical records. Well, I...
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Reforming health care (Part I): Start with advertising

If we learned nothing else from the 2008 election, it is that the majority of people in this country want meaningful reform in the medical industry...
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Norovirus cited as leading cause of US hospital infection outbreaks

A recent study published in the American Journal of Infection Control has concluded that norovirus is emerging as an increasingly common hospital...
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Healthcare: my heart was fine, until I saw my bill

Several weeks after losing my second job in four years due to the economy this past November, I had scheduled a ‘tune-up’ with my...
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Avoid medical mistakes

Did you know that nearly half a million people in the United States die each year from medical mistakes? What can you do to protect yourself and...
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Therapy dogs provide comfort and affection

A therapy dog is a dog trained to provide affection and comfort to people in hospitals, retirement homes, nursing homes, schools, Hospice, people...
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Construction of 45 new hospitals ceases due to new Healthcare bill

You would think that the advent of healthcare for all would engender the creation of new hospitals to service a new group of consumers who will...
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