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I believe that it is very important for everyone to get to know their bodies. It’s your body, and who better to know it than you. Your body is like a good friend. If you treat it well, it will treat you well. If you treat it badly, it will treat you badly. By knowing your body; I mean you should pay attention to it. You should know your body better than your doctor, not vice versa. Sometimes, the solution to your health problems is simple. If you take care of your body and learn what your body needs you can solve some of the problems you may be having yourself.

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As the readers of this blog know, Lauren and I spend a great deal of time representing nursing home residents, and their families, in civil lawsuits against nursing homes which provide poor, sometimes shocking, care.

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As I posted yesterday, the increasingly noisy debate about health care reform in the US has not dealt much with the issues we often discuss on Health Care Renewal. These include problems in how health care organizations are lead which threaten physicians’ and other health care professionals’ core values using tactics including perverse incentives, deception, and intimidation.
Last night, however, President Obama held a news conference mostly devoted to health care issues, in which he stressed the importance of changing not just how health insurance works, but how health care decisions are made. As Newsweek’s “The Gaggle” blog reported,
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He feels he just should not be there now, and I can imagine how heated it is.and will it ever get out of the Finance Committee.  President Obama said this evening in his speech if you dont put a time limit on things in this town, you can wait for a very long time.  BD 

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We have posted on a variety of settlements of cases alleging health care fraud, but this one has a new twist, as reported by the NY Times,

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 In a related story in Michigan, more people are losing their health insurance; however, profits are up for the HMOs.  Michigan health plans posted strong profits in 2008, despite seeing a 10 percent drop in commercial enrollment to 1.4 million, according to the 2009 Michigan Health Market Review.  Whats wrong with this picture?

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Health care reform is now the big health care story in the US. Discussion of various health care reform proposals regularly lead in print and electronic media. Yet we have been very quiet here on Health Care Renewal about health care reform.

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Merlin is the St. Jude wireless system and you can read at the link below about the collaboration between devices and HealthVault for personal health records too.  Implanted devices are getting smarter. 

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So I have told a few friends and family members that Frith Law Firm has been taking Bed Bug cases for the last 4 months. We represent men and women who were guests in hotels / motels across the South East and were awakened by the sensation of being chewed by these blood sucking insects.

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This post should perhaps be subtitled “The Theatre of the Absurd.”

At Healthcare Renewal and other sites I’ve often commented on the remarkable accommodation given to IT personnel in hospitals, even when these personnel make capricious decisions that are contrary to the support of the mission of healthcare organizations, or contrary to the mission itself.

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