My Right to Death With Dignity
Married for a year, Brittany Maynard, 29, found she had aggressive brain cancer. She had six months to live, and she didn’t want her family to watch her dying in pain. Maynard and her family… Read More
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Too Many Doctors Can Be Bad For Your Health
The more physicians you see, the greater the chance of miscommunication and overtreatment. My colleague referred her father to me with apologies. The 78-year-old retired businessman was visiting from Florida for the month, and had… Read More
How Dangerous Are CT Scans?
By Dr. C.H. Weaver M.D., CancerConnect.com, updated 1/2019. CT scan is short for computerized tomography scan. CT scans are a type of X-ray that provide highly detailed images. CT, or CAT scans, are special X-ray… Read More
C-sections drive up costs and increase risks for mothers and babies.
Consumer Reports. Pregnant women put a lot of trust in their doctors and hospitals. But a Consumer Reports investigation of more than 1,500 hospitals in 22 states suggests that such trust may be misplaced. It… Read More
The Private Hospital Inspection Agency That Threatens All Citizens
House committee probes CMS, Joint Commission over accreditation process By MARIA CASTELLUCCI, Modern Healthcare, March 13, 2018. Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee have launched an investigation into the hospital accreditation process following a Wall… Read More
The Voices Of Patient Harm
Condensed from Propublica. Patient safety is one of the most talked about topics in medicine today, but it’s rare to hear from patients who have been injured. ProPublica gathered more than 1,000 stories of patient… Read More
The U.S. Lags in Life Expectancy Gains
By Peter Coy – Businessweek. Life expectancy in the U.S. has been growing more slowly than in other developed countries and is now more than a year below the developed-country average, according to a… Read More
What Is a Doctor Legally Required To Do
Excerpts from: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. A doctor is NOT legally required to: Treat you, under varying circumstances. Doctors in private practice — who do not receive public funding via programs like Medicare — can refuse to treat a… Read More
The Chargemaster and the $100 Aspirin
By Abraham Aboraya, the Orlando Business Journal. Osceola Regional Medical Center in Kissimmee is the 28th most expensive hospital in the U.S., according to new research. The most expensive hospital in Central Florida isn’t just… Read More
Getting Robbed at the Hospital
By Amanda Buchanan – The Motley Fool. High hospital costs seem to be a fact of life that most Americans have reluctantly come to accept. What most people don’t realize, however, is that not all… Read More