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Business aspects of medicine

Dec
20

Date: December 20th, 2013

As a practicing medical doctor, there are of course some few things you regret regarding your specialty selection or medical training. One thing that I really regret is failing to take advantage of masters degree program in Health

The exorbitant costs related to end of life care

Dec
19

Date: December 19th, 2013

This year, the passed health care reform legislation majorly dealt on reimbursements made for such discussions and was mischaracterized widely as a way of establishing the so called ‘death panels’.

Anonymous online posts

Dec
18

Date: December 18th, 2013

Recently, Britain’s General Medical Council released a new set of guidelines regarding medicine and social media. Generally, for doctors in United Kingdom, GMC really doesn’t believe that anyone identified as a physician should tweet/ post/ blog anonymously on the Internet. The council says that if a doctor identifies his or herself publicly through the social media, he or she should also make his name available. The public is highly likely to trust any online material that seems to be written by someone who represents him/ herself as a doctor. Such material is regarded to widely represent the views of this profession.

Pain management tips

Dec
17

Date: December 17th, 2013

As a practicing lawyer, I have represented many physicians charged with prescribing. The local authorities treated some of them as criminal investigations like the sheriff’s office in the county.

Death by natural cause

Dec
16

Date: December 16th, 2013

Maybe the actions that lead to death are the ones that should be used to determine if death is natural or not, and if it is not, then what type of death is it? When time comes to call it off in this world, there are things (drugs and equipments) that doctors use o prolong a person’s stay on earth.

Residency Working Hours

Dec
15

Date: December 15th, 2013

Most students who take medicine as their career course are always aware of the challenges that residency practitioners face. They say health profession is a calling, but that does not cement that health workers who practice residency should work extraordinarily longer than other health officers do.

Emergency Room Visits

Dec
13

Date: December 13th, 2013

It was hard to figure out if the healthcare system in the United States would dip any further, until now that citizens can start seeing some positivity in it. It is not a huge improvement though and hence it is not a reason to give the system a clean bill of health.

Mexico’s Health Care

Dec
12

Date: December 12th, 2013

When we look at the state of quality health provision in Mexico and compare it to the United States’ medical care, there is a wide gap in how the two countries handle their services. One would expect United States to have an upper hand in this and any other field over other smaller countries.

Give Hope to a Cancer Patient

Dec
11

Date: December 11th, 2013

This killer disease called cancer is among the worst disasters that no one would wish on anyone. It has many worst things about it and one of them is that the patient knows what is going on, the stage the ailment is at, and what will happen next if some procedures are not done.

iPhone pulls with Health Apps for Migraines

Dec
10

Date: December 10th, 2013

iphone manufacturers have come up with mobile apps that are supported by their system, which are capable of managing the nagging medical problem of migraines. Those of you who have experience the unbearable pain that is associated with migraine will be relieved to learn how easy it is to counter migraine using the following apps.