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		<title>Two worthwhile essays on healthcare&#8217;s biggest problems</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2009/10/07/two-worthwhile-essays-on-healthcares-biggest-problems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In two of the better essays on healthcare, The New Yorker&#8217;s Dr. Atul Gawande and David Goldhill,via the Atlantic Monthly, portray a healthcare system dreadfully disorganized and wasteful. While this is no new discovery, each offers a different perspective (Guwande is a M.D., Goldhill a businessman), and solution.
In his trip to McAllen, Texas&#8212;a town with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fixing the foundation of the healthcare system</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2009/10/05/fixing-the-foundation-of-the-healthcare-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week we addressed the patient&#8217;s lack of a seat at the healthcare negotiations table. Clarification: the patient isn&#8217;t even in the conference room. They are out pacing in the hall&#8212;maybe even on the wrong floor&#8212;oblivious to what&#8217;s going in the room or at the table. Think about it healthcare for a moment. Our employer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medicare isn&#8217;t all that efficient</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2009/09/16/medicare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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A reader posted a comment awhile back about the hospital experience of her mother, who was just diagnosed with aplastic anemia. Briefly what happened:
&#8220;&#8230; the hospital attempted to discharge her. They indicated that she could receive the treatment for aplastic anemia on an outpatient basis. My sister challenged that as being unacceptable based on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Link PICCs: Healthcare reform, American values and CEO salaries</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2009/09/09/link-piccs-healthcare-reform-american-values-and-ceo-salaries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Healthcare reform might not mean reform for some who need it most.  Those who make too much to qualify for government subsidies, but aren&#8217;t exactly pulling down huge bucks should have a ton of interest in making sure that changes to the healthcare system ensure their care is affordable. This a well-cited problem in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good read: &#8220;No Cash for medical bills? Bartering pays&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2009/08/19/good-read-no-cash-for-medical-bills-bartering-pays/</link>
		<comments>http://mypiccline.com/2009/08/19/good-read-no-cash-for-medical-bills-bartering-pays/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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On my days at the clinic it&#8217;s no surprise to see a long line of people awaiting a &#8220;meeting&#8221; with the billing department. Getting sick is expensive and not everybody has great heath insurance, let alone health insurance at all. There are a lot of different groups who have a interest in seeing that those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The blood test I didn&#8217;t need, then I did, but I didn&#8217;t</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2009/08/12/fragmented-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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Last week, at the clinic it started with a question. Does a transfusion dependent person need a type-and cross every three days or four? A type and cross is a blood test to determine the best blood for a patient prior to transfusion. The doctor said four days. Settled. That test would not be necessary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massachusetts looks to eradicate fee-for-service care</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2009/07/19/massachusetts-looks-to-eradicate-fee-for-service-healthcare/</link>
		<comments>http://mypiccline.com/2009/07/19/massachusetts-looks-to-eradicate-fee-for-service-healthcare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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We&#8217;ve talked about fee-for-service healthcare as being one of the the many current practices in need of reform, according to the Boston Globe, Massachusetts will be the first state to attempt to roll with it. The proposal will replace current compensation protocol with a global payment, where care will be issued by a network of doctors who will be rewarded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abnormal tests, and informed patients</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2009/07/09/abnormal-tests-and-informed-patients/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good friend was kind enough to alert me of a study headed by Dr. Lawrence P. Casalino of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City that researched how often abnormal test results are reported by doctors to their patients. The study&#8217;s findings were well covered nationally, I have taken the liberty to pull excerpts from [...]]]></description>
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