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This one was a new one for me too, I had never heard of sticking a candle in your ear! Some were stating that it helps heat up and remove ear wax, well one person got stuck with candle wax on her ear drum, so much for that idea. You could even possibly lose your hearing doing something like this.
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This is just way too funny and I felt this needed to be shared! With all the ridiculous commercials that run on TV and that are shown on the internet today you sometimes wonder are suggestive methodologies being used?
I am not reducing the fact here at all that mental illness is real and that there are people who do need help, but how far is drug marketing pushing the envelope with beating us over the head with advertising and how much more of this can we tolerate with constant media displays every day, and everywhere you turn around.
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I posted a blog back on February 9 titled, “Nurse Going to Jail? Are you Kidding me?”
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And the march of settlements continues….
As reported by the Tulsa (Oklahoma) World,
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Arnold Schwarzenegger pretty well sums it up here. He adds you need to just keeping working the program. One thing I do have to say, it is nice to have a Governor who not only appreciates technology, but participates as well. 
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I am not picking per se here, but gee every time I turn around I keep hearing about one suit after another with appeals, awards, etc. all going back to patent wars, 
and with present economic conditions, who cares. All I know is that consumers end up paying in the long run for all of this and the awards are insidious as well as the dollar amounts. This is beginning to remind me of what we have in Washington with not being able to reach agreements. Do we really need to tie up the courts with all of this and with the technology involved, all of this can go on for years.
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This was actually announced last month but in case you missed it Molina is purchasing the healthcare management end of Unisys. Their area of market is HMO services in area where they presently may not be available and with the purchase expansion should be pretty rapid and the company has 900 employees at present.
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Why don’t Virginia nursing homes give up? Virginia courts do not like enforcing mandatory arbitration agreements contained in nursing home admission contracts. You know…the language which says the nursing home can sue you for failing to pay your charges but if the nursing home staff drops you and breaks your hip you cannot hold the facility accountable in court.
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She was just appointed this week and this may or may not fall under her area of jurisdiction, but as a consumer be wary of offers from those where you do not know 
much about their systems and algorithms too. Something like this could very well pop up in healthcare too. Some folks get completely out of whack when it comes to using technology for money, or in this case, control. From the article that is written here, wake on LAN was alive and well on the computers and this occurred not in poverty area, but one with above middle class standings.
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It’s deja vu all over again. A case reported (so far only) in the UK Times Higher Education Supplement of a biomedical researcher apparently threatened because she tried to present data that did favor a particular commercial health care product. Here is the summary:
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