The following story was submitted by a reader:
In June, I was rushed to the emergency room with bilateral abdominal pain. I spent twenty-two hours in the ER and there was told I had a malignant mass, gastroenteritis, Crohn’s disease, an ovarian torsion, or most unlikely, appendicitis. Following two inconclusive CAT scans and a sonogram, I [...]
In two of the better essays on healthcare, The New Yorker’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—a town with [...]
For the past three months this blog has been focused on the experience of one person, one patient. Admittedly this offers a limited scope of healthcare. With the addition of the ‘Submit Your Story‘ feature, we hope that changes.
It’s no secret that the best way to become truly informed is to be exposed to the [...]
The waiting room is full of us today, anxious people waiting to see our doctor. There are 13 or 14 of us in this room, and in a another one down the hall, 13 or 14 more. This pattern continues on for quite sometime—this is a big place, like factory big. Before we found ourselves [...]
A reader posted a comment awhile back about the hospital experience of her mother, who was just diagnosed with aplastic anemia. Briefly what happened:
“… 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 [...]
Healthcare reform might not mean reform for some who need it most. Those who make too much to qualify for government subsidies, but aren’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 [...]
Solid discussion here on the media’s coverage of healthcare reform, and the debate of substantive coverage versus the coverage of the political process. Over the last few months the focus in the United States has been on town hall meetings rather then what proposed health care reform legislation will really mean for Americans and their [...]
On my days at the clinic it’s no surprise to see a long line of people awaiting a “meeting” 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 [...]
A few weeks ago we talked about the Canadian healthcare model, of late we’ve heard more and more about the model in Great Britain. Known as the National Health Service (NHS), it covers all citizens and is entirely publicly funded. The system consumes about 8.4% of the country’s GDP compared with America’s 16%. The added [...]
With the American obesity problem continuing to attract attention in healthcare reform, a not so new idea is circulating in the discussion: the fat tax.
It’s an undoubtedly slippery slope. Does it contrast the core values of this country or is it an appropriate measure to cure a nationwide epidemic that is costing us dearly?
The [...]
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