Should We Pay Doctors to Take Patients for Walks?
This is an interesting piece for the way it calls on us to shift our approach and pay doctors and other health care professionals to engage patients in prevention. I have to ask, though: what would the rate of reimbursement be for doctors taking patients for walks? A Long View on Health Care – Think [...]
Another Doctor Gag Rule
Before I was a nurse, I was an Emergency Medical Technician, and later, the OSHA nurse in one of my jobs. One day I was working in the community, and asked to deal with a situation. A man who lived in a building thought he was exposed to some floor-stripping chemicals used in a renovation. [...]
Essential Skilled Workers Must not be Cut
American Journal of Nursing doesn’t give it away for free, so I can’t re-print chunks of ‘Patient’s Perspective: Hard Lessons from a Long Hospital Stay’. Michael Ogg, author and subject, along with co-author Lisa I.Lezzoni describe the sequence of events that put Mr.Ogg in the hospital where he got first-rate high tech medical treatment, almost [...]
Why Nurses Support the Affordable Care Act
Known by its opponents as ‘Obamacare’ because the very words, ‘affordable care’ would explain why it is urgently needed. I’m on an email list for medical professionals, just got this call to support affordable care. This is pretty much in sync with what we see and hear every day. Healthcare for private profit wastes resources [...]
Unnecessary Risk
This is a good example of why we need an FDA, and why nothing is risk-free… New Jersey-based Pharmaceutical Innovations Inc. manufactures Other-Sonic Generic Ultrasound Transmission Gel. The gel is used by medical professionals in ultrasounds, a procedure involving high-frequency sound waves to look at patients’ organs. Samples of the gel taken by the FDA [...]
Be Fair to Those Who Care
Salon has a review of the third day of the Supreme Court hearings on the Affordable Care Act, titled ‘A Brutal Day for Health Care.’ What I hear on the radio and read in the news as I work in the industry has me heartsick. Science, common sense and common decency say we cannot be [...]
Another Lethal Weapon
Cary Tennis on Salon.com has a reader looking for advice on what to do when mom won’t give up the keys… Now the issue at hand is getting Mom to give up her car. She has macular degeneration with very impaired vision, but apparently not crossing the line into legal blindness. But there’s no doubt [...]
Special-Needs Adults
So, how about this weather? There are so many complex factors in weather, and in climate, that you can’t predict a scorching July will follow cherry blossoms in March. That goes double for Rhode Island, where it can snow in May. Friday, I walked to Kennedy Plaza to catch the #42 bus. They say you [...]
Breast Cancer and the Environment: A Life Course Approach – Institute of Medicine
I have been looking for new research on this, and here it is….Breast Cancer and the Environment: A Life Course Approach – Institute of Medicine.
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