Tag: healthcare

When cancer isn’t; rethinking the diagnosis of cancer to avoid unnecessary treatment and psychological trauma.

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When cancer isn’t; rethinking the diagnosis of cancer to avoid unnecessary treatment and psychological trauma. For a while, there has been talk within the medical profession regarding many of the normal variants that have been called cancer.   For most people, a diagnosis of cancer conjures up images of a life-threatening battle to stay alive, surgeries, and treatments that make you ill, cost a fortune, and can disfigure you. In the past, the suspicion of cancer required constant monitoring, tests, and treatments for the disease were not usually curative.   The constant fear of the unknown is ever-present after a cancer diagnosis Read More »

Ridiculous hospital bills and mergers; when will this insanity end?

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Ridiculous hospital bills and mergers; when will this insanity end? As a healthcare provider who works hard to do the right thing, insurers have been predatory on hospitals and healthcare providers for years.  The result has been hitting consumers in the pocketbook. Smaller practices that care and offer patient-centered care continue to be starved of revenue. At the same time, they evaluate the possibility of working for corporate medical practices where nobody knows who you are. Welcome to conveyor belt medicine where the hospital model is 15 minutes of primary care as you enter a system of visiting doctor after Read More »

Should you go to social media to get your insurance denials paid? This woman did.

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Should you go to social media to get your insurance denials paid? This woman did. When the healthcare system doesn’t work and your insurance company is part of the problem, who can we trust? For many patients, nobody unless you find someone who really cares about you personally.  For now, conveyor belt medicine which is the corporate version of healthcare where nobody knows your name or cares is what we have.  Truthfully, capitalism has ruined healthcare in the USA. Even my wife recently had a precert done for cardiac screens that were denied when her primary doctor requested them, requiring Read More »

Why is aggressive noncurative healthcare still so common at the end of life?

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Why is aggressive noncurative healthcare still so common at the end of life? We all have a limited time to live our lives, even with the help of modern medicine. Earlier this week, I listened to a podcast about the idea that there are three types of medical care. 1.0, 2.0 which is what we have now, and 3.0, the future which looks at health holistically and can afford us a more productive and healthier last few years. The current way doctors practice is by listening to our symptoms, not helping us change the lifestyles that create those symptoms, and Read More »

According to the NY Times, the real cause of the crisis in the U.S. hospitals is…

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According to the NY Times, the real cause of the crisis in the U.S. hospitals is… The Covid-19 pandemic laid bare what is wrong with the US hospital system.   While there is much to complain about including massive consolidation, tiered plans courtesy of insurance carriers, and the purchasing of private practices designed to control the regions they proliferate in, there is one overwhelming problem; nurses. During the pandemic, I had heard firsthand stories of nurses being overworked due to staffing shortages, doctors sending nurses to rooms they were afraid to enter and the crisis started years before the pandemic as Read More »