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Dr. Lindsey Hay Joins Boone County Family Medicine

BOONE, Iowa—The new member to the medical staff at Boone County Family Medicine has now begun her practice. The Boone County Hospital wants people to welcome J. Lindsey Hay, M.D., to the Boon…

Where are drugs stored in the body?

Mary* was feeling great! She was no longer taking medications which made her feel emotionally numb and clouded. She felt clear-headed and stable, something she had not felt for a long time<br>The Truehope program was really working!<br>She felt energized and motivated, so she began to go jogging. She wanted to improve her health and lose some of the weight she had gained over the last year. All at once her symptoms began to backslide.<br>When Mary called Truehope, her support person…

A salty tale: What EMS personnel need to know about electrolyte disorders

Learn what causes electrolyte disorders and how to recognize when sodium, potassium, chloride, calcium, phosphate and magnesium levels are too high or low

With more young people having strokes, be alert to these warning signs

Being able to identify if someone is having a stroke can literally save that person’s life.

What is the difference between coinsurance and copayments?

Both coinsurance and copayments help save health insurance companies money by making the consumer responsible for a portion of a medical bill, but the two health insurance terms have very different definitions.

Sticker shock: Secrets of hospital billing revealed

Hospital charges are closely guarded secrets, but not anymore. KRQE News 13 has compiled a first-ever comparison of actual patient charges from all 44 New Mexico hospitals. And what it shows is a b…

How hospitals could be rebuilt, better than before

The Doctor-Patient Relationship Will Fix Health Care, Not Insurance

Who is at the other end of the stethoscope? Sure, it may be your doctor who is listening intently. But who is making the decisions about your care? Is it you and your doctor, or do insurance functionaries have the real say? Anything that comes between the doctor and the patient is bad for health...

Should Doctors Be 'Parsimonious' About Health Care?

The American College of Physicians urges internists to take cost-effectiveness into consideration when making decisions about patient care, triggering a debate.

How Doctors Can Make Life Easier for Patients

When a homeless person gets discharged from hospital, he needs a safe place to recover. When a poor patient faces a high co-pay for a medicine she needs, she is often too embarrassed to tell her doctor – instead, she may not fill the prescription<br>Doctors don’t typically try to solve these social problems, but some want to do better at understanding patients’ lived experiences. In this episode of The Dose, Ishani Ganguli and Janine Knudsen, both primary care providers at innovative clinics,…

Medical care: More than just the doctor and patient

The provision of medical care is complex. Many factors can influence what treatments a patient can receive, or if they can even receive treatment at all. Today on the blog, we discuss insurance.

Why patients must rely less on doctors: Improving our own health is

Virtually all of us are or will be patients at some point in our lives. It is strange, then, that when you think of the immense effort, time and resources invested in the NHS, the most important experts – ordinary people managing their own health – are typically left out of the equation.

How doctors' assumptions about LGBTQ patients can be harmful to their health

For LGBTQ people, doctors visits can be met with uncomfortable questions that could be avoided if doctors didn't make assumptions.

When the doctor becomes the patient: A transformative experience

A doctor’s serious health threat prompts reflection on the power of spirituality, the value of mindfulness practice, and acknowledgment of mortality as a motivator to reassess one&amp;rsqu...

Doctors, Patients Learning To Ask About Health Costs — Or Pay A Steep Price

With consumers shouldering a bigger share of their medical bills, some doctors are learning to talk about treatment options in ways that help patients manage costs. And Kaiser Health News tells th…

Online Tools to Shop for Doctors Snag on Health Care’s Complexity

These services aim to create sophisticated shoppers for medical care, but even when people have access to new information, they might not use it.

Doctors Aren’t Asking Most Gay Patients the Right Sexual Health Questions

A survey finds doctors aren’t spending enough time with patients in the first place. You’re supposed to be able to tell your doctor anything. But how are patients supposed to know what to tell their doctors if the doctors don't ask the necessary questions in the first place? When it comes to sexual health screening, many doctors either missed the class in medical school that was supposed to teach them to ask patients about sexual health questions, or their lack of attention to…

Health care’s fundamental problem: Your doctor doesn’t work for you

Your doctor’s years of training and knowledge of your unique condition can be vetoed by your insurance company.

Linking Doctors’ Pay To Quality Measures May Improve Health Care For Low-Income Patients

A study in Health Affairs finds that one insurer’s decision to link doctors’ reimbursements to measures of quality showed improved care for all patients but the gains were greater for p…

Doctors: Climate change has become a health issue

A group of doctors are pushing for environmentally friendly answers to health problems, which will help society, not just individual patients.