GOP Sends Out Fake “Census” Looking Surveys – No Wonder They Can’t Get Around to Healthcare Reform

Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 27-01-2010

This is a great trick to make it look like the format used for the real Census, not.  Did this idea come from Glen Beck or maybe Rush Limbaugh, speaking out loud here and really curious as to who did think this one up.   You have to watch this to see the details from Rachel Maddow on the fake Census survey sent out.

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GETTING POOR NURSING HOME CARE IN VIRGINIA? MAKE A COMPLAINT

Filed Under (Legal Medical) by Admin on 27-01-2010

We receive calls weekly (sometime daily) from families who are feed up with the poor care their loved one is receiving at a local nursing home. One of our first questions is whether they have made a complaint to the state agency charged with investigating Virginia nursing homes.

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Drowning our Sorrows in Ketchup: Novartis Settles, Appoints Former Heinz Executive CEO

Filed Under (Health Care) by Admin on 27-01-2010

Here’s the latest corporate health care marcher in the legal settlement parade, as reported in the Wall Street Journal.
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Bill Gates Speaks With Jon Stewart On the Daily Show – Twitter, Education and Healthcare Focused

Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 26-01-2010

Bill Gates has been in the news quite a bit of late and the Daily Show has another opportunity.  Jon asks all about Twitter and how Mr. Gates is doing.  You know what is very cool here is Mr. Gates saying Im new to Twitter, so hes working with software and learning value from software Microsoft didnt create, a mode of respect from those who write code for each other. In code world everyone who writes has respect and good things to say about others who write a good piece of code.

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DEFAMATION RE: PATIENT CARE IN ROANOKE

Filed Under (Legal Medical) by Admin on 26-01-2010

Roanoke doctor’s lawsuit charges defamation
The complaint says another doctor accused him of allowing a patient to die.

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Radiation Procedures Gone Sour – Software and Other Related Failures Lead to Death and Lifetime Illnesses

Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 26-01-2010

This is quite a tragic story about 2 specific individuals that were over dosed with radiation treatment.  Now there are emerging stories in California about over imageexposure during brains cancer scans, over 200 patients, but their times of exposure were less than these 2 individuals here who were getting radiation treatment.

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As Records Go Digital, Cultures Clash, Bringing to Life Secrets the Health IT Companies Don’t Want You to Know

Filed Under (Health Care) by Admin on 26-01-2010

Yes, as records go digital, cultures clash: the culture of medicine, and the culture of the Barbary pirates.

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American Journal of Cardiology States Men Who Have Sex Twice A Week Cut in Half the Risk of Serious Heart Disease

Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 25-01-2010

As this article states, they didnt evaluate women, but think it would work for us too.  We get some exercise from sex and the study also said men who are in a imagesupportive relationship live longer when having a regular partner.  

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Technology Has Been Abused for Profit –Algorithmic Formulas Used to Further the Stance of Greed on Wall Street and in Healthcare Organizations Traded on the Exchanges

Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 24-01-2010

Hopefully we will all get educated on what is ruling and running the US today, its not Tea Parties or the Soap Opera Congressional press we see everyday, its technology along with business models, software and the algorithmic formulas used to carve out money where it did not exist before.  Every business uses software today and competition with programming and creating desired results seems to have taken the main stage. This represents a lot of the hidden cost of our healthcare in the US.  image

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The Medical Quack Now Has a Kindle Edition

Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 23-01-2010

Theres one more way you can read the Medical Quack if you happen to own a Kindle.  It is not free, but the charge is $1.99 a month and you can try it out for 14 days at no charge.  So if the Quack is worth a couple bucks a month and you own a Kindle, here it is. 

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