I consider health insurance as one of the necessities of life so that is paid they same way as all my other monthly bills but when I had to travel to West Africa, the insurance did not cover the immunizatons or malaria prophylaxis. Somehow its is not considered important to prevent a major issue. "Not a Covered Benefit" is a problem with practically every insurance plan. This will not be changed to the better under the Affordable Care Act

Dr. Grivois-Shah said Facebook is a good social media venue for his purposes because people post personal information about themselves. He said Twitter comments are too short to glean much information from, and LinkedIn is too benign.

With so many on social media, is it a red flag if a candidate has no social media presence? Cebulka said it could be seen as a negative that the candidate isn’t tech savvy enough to maintain a social media account.

The patient client is now paying of the bill more and therefore demanding a better experience in the healthcare system. Heads up to doctors because office visits score well.

Many smartphone apps on the market offer tips, advice and treatments on how to deal with pain. But many are not backed by science or created with input from a medical professional.

27% of app had obvious input form an MD or DO.

It gives you the face and the branding that you need to appear legitimate, but with the flexibility and capabilities to work virtually. You can still have a secretary, state-of-the-are conference rooms and a commercial address without a ton of overhead expense, all you need is a virtual office.

I love my virtual office in all respects except one: I love being around people and the virtual office lacks the casual interactions and needed distractions of interacting with others. Going to the coffee shop doesn't solve this issue because all the people in there are disconnected and in their own worlds. In other words, they have no relationship, comraderie or caring for each other that co-workers generally have.

Patients regularly asked me to lie to get services covered by their insurance company or extra time off from work. I refused to participate in the fraud which made mosts of the askers quite upset with my ethical/moral stand.

So are the negative side effects of statins worth it to try to prevent cataracts? Me thinks not when cataract surgery is done so quickly and easily with very few complications but the statin side effects can be terrible and long lasting

The researchers concluded that larger tax credits for the poor and higher taxes on the affluent seemed to improve income mobility only slightly. The economists also found only modest or no correlation between mobility and the number of local colleges and their tuition rates or between mobility and the amount of extreme wealth in a region.

“The road to hell is often paved with good intentions,” said C. Richard Schott, MD, a cardiologist who is president of the Pennsylvania Medical Society. Dr. Schott said the aphorism, attributed to a medieval Catholic monk, was fitting when considering the totality of federal rules and regulations imposed on physicians. In the push to modernize practices through health information technology and new care models, physicians feel as if burdensome rules instead are pushing their practices back to the Dark Ages.

“How do we deliver a message that may be seen as hypocritical? I don’t know the answer,” Dr. Ramachandran said. “But doctors are human beings first and scientists second. We are subject to the same maladies as the rest of society. It’s an incredibly difficult problem, and a challenge.”

What constitutes top-notch customers service in a physician practice? We must start with training for physicians in customer service and how to provide it efficiently while still providing top-quality medical care.

Did we really need a study to prove this?

There is only  two ways to save on taxes…1.) don’t make any money or 2.) start your own business