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5 to 10 years for obesity or child neglect is the potential sentence if convicted for the mother.  She was instructed to bring her son in for medical treatment and didnt show.  There are a lot of unanswered questions here too, could she afford the treatment or was the tab being picked up.  That is the first thing that comes to mind for me.  Hes in protective custody now so someone will be watching what he eats.  BD 

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HCA, the nations largest for-profit hospital chain, is rolling out a system-wide emergency-room screening program aimed at reducing the number of patients with non-emergent or non-urgent medical conditions seen at HCA facilities.

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It would seem likely.

In May 2009 at “The Machinery Behind Healthcare Reform: How the HIT Lobby is Pushing Experimental and Unsafe Technology on Unconsented Patients and Clinicians” I wrote: Read the rest of this entry »

This company has a few new wireless data reporting medical devices.  The one mentioned in the study was the blood pressure device.  These devices all have Bluetooth too.  Theres also the option of connecting to a phone line to transmit as well. 

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Are you maybe reading something on the blog that you have not seen before or have no idea what it is?  I have enabled Answer Tips on the site, so all you need to do is double click on any word and a pop up box will open and give you an explanation.  You can even customized the way you want the search to function.

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We live in a world today where transparency rules and by not working together creates issues such as this story seems to relate. 

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In his recent review of Dr Ezekiel Emanuel’s book, (Healthcare, Guaranteed: A Simple, Secure Solution for America,) Dr Arnold Relman, Editor-Emeritus of the New England Journal of Medicine, discussed the history of the deprofessionalization of American physicians.

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Not only did she have a battle with cancer but fought for her privacy too at UCLA.  She fought back a few years ago only to have the cancer return.  BD

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We have posted frequently about the role of the RBRVS Update Committee (RUC) in fixing the rates at which Medicare pays physicians. These payment rates have been much more generous for procedures than for “cognitive” services, (that is, services including interviewing and examining patients, making diagnoses, forecasting prognoses, recommending tests or treatments, and counseling patients.) Several authors have suggested that how the RUC fixes payment rates is a major cause of the decline of primary care. (See our previous posts on this here, here, here, here, here, here, and here and important articles by Bodenheimer et al,[1] and Goodson.[2])

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