Doctors

Should Doctors Learn to Grieve?

Barbara Coombs Lee | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Dr. Leeat Granek, Physicians, Dying, Grief, New York Times, Barbara Coombs Lee, Doctors, Mary Oliver, Grieving, Doctors Grieving Patients, Doctors Grief, Doctors Patients Grief, Death & Dying, Doctors Grieving, Healthy Living News
Barbara Coombs Lee

Grieving openly serves the important function of assuring ourselves and others that it is normal, and temporary, and part of a full and authentic life. Only suppressed grief threatens one's mental health.

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'The Doctor Will See You ... When?': Patients, Patience And Health Care

Robert Klitzman, M.D. | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Religion, Mental Health, Time, Physicians, Experience, Suffering, Health, Health Care Reform, Doctors, Health Care, Spirituality, Healthy Living News
Robert Klitzman, M.D.

Recently, I interviewed a group of doctors who had become patients, and who repeatedly described their astonishment to suddenly experience time very differently.

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Want Cheaper Medical Bills? Forget Insurance, Pay Cash

The Huffington Post | Catherine New | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Surgical Bills, Health Care Cash, Medical Billing, Uninsured, Insurance, Health Insurance Costs, Out of Pocket Medical Cost, Colonoscopy, Doctors, Medical Bills, Hospital Bill, Long Beach Medical Center, Surgical Costs, Money News

It is the paradox of medical billing: Medical insurance means you might actually have to pay more in some cases. Take the story of one frustrated p...

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An Examination of Unhappy Doctors

Richard C. Senelick, M.D. | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Unhappiness, Medical Students, Physicians, Student Debt, Career Advice, Doctors, Career Change, Happiness Study, Doctors Happiness, Health News, Happy Doctors, Unhappy Doctors, Happiness, Happiness Survey, Healthy Living News
Richard C. Senelick, M.D.

The last few years have seen radical changes in the health care system. I suspect that many doctors report unhappiness because these changes mean that many doctors' careers do not live up to their expectations.

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'I Like My Skin Thin, Thank You'

Lisa Guest | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Research, Medical Centers, Oncology, Waiting Rooms, Choice, Stress, Emotional Processing, Emotions, Self Esteem, Traditions, Urgent Care, Chemotherapy, Disease, Blood Tests, Analysis, Health Insurance, Red Tape, Doctors, Cancer, Second Opinions, Anxiety, Pixar, Power Port Flushes, Women News
Lisa Guest

I've been told I over-analyze things too much. I've been told I'm too sensitive about little things. I've been told I should grow a thicker skin. I like my skin thin.

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Breaking the Cycle of 'Learned Helplessness'

Gifty Maria Ntim | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Health Outcomes, Healthy Living Health News, Doctors, Chronic Diseases, Health Care, Patient Care, Patient Empowerment, Healthy Living News
Gifty Maria Ntim

Effectively engaging vulnerable patient populations in their care is attainable and vital, and will improve health outcomes and contain costs.

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The Quality of Mercy

John P. Howe, III, M.D. | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Foreign Aid, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Project-Hope, Diplomacy, Navy, Humanitarian Aid, Military, Medicine, Health Care, Comfort, Doctors, Impact News
John P. Howe, III, M.D.

As Americans remember the sacrifices of our military on Memorial Day, I also recall the thousands of Project HOPE volunteers dispatched across the globe over the years to bring health and healing to foreign shores.

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Humanizing the Doctor-Patient Relationship, Online

Mark Britton | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Find Doctor, Healthy Living Health News, Social Media, Choosing Doctor, Doctors, Bedside Manner, Find a Doctor, Doctor Patient Relationships, Healthy Living News
Mark Britton

While the internet will never -- and should never -- replace a patient's in-person interaction with his or her doctor, it has created an unprecedented level of access to information about various symptoms and conditions, and also about the doctors themselves.

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6 Ways To Get The Most From Your Doctor's Appointment

Jim T. Miller | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Doctors, Aging, Fifty News, Health Care, Post50 Health, Health Post50, Communicating With the Doctor, Slidepollajax, Doctor's Appointment, Senior Health, Health and Aging, Health After 50, Fifty News
Jim T. Miller

Dear Savvy Senior: Can you write a column educating patients on how to prepare for doctors appointments? I manage a number of small health clinics, and have found that patients -- especially seniors -- that come prepared when they visit our doctors are much more satisfied with the care they receive.

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INFOGRAPHIC: The Most Important Doctors To See In Your 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s

Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Doctors, Video, Health Care Specialists, Women's Health, Personal Health, Women's Medical Tests, Healthy Living News

Between constantly changing guidelines and a range of varying opinions (even among docs themselves!), it can be tricky to keep track of the medical ex...

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Why Dying Is Different for Doctors

Richard C. Senelick, M.D. | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Death and Dying, Doctors, Physicians, Dying With Dignity, Palliative Care, Death, End of Life Decisions, Health Care Decisions, Death & Dying, Healthy Living News
Richard C. Senelick, M.D.

Because of our exposure to and understanding of how people die, physicians, at least in my experience, tend to deal with death differently than those outside of the profession.

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U.S. Health Care Costs Highest In Industrialized World: Study

The Huffington Post | Jeffrey Young | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Health Care Costs, Health Insurance, Obesity, Oecd, Uninsured, Asthma, Hospitals, Doctors, Medicaid, Medicare, Cancer, Diabetes, Health Care, Healthcare, Healthcare Costs, Business News

Health care in America costs more than in other industrialized nation and we aren't even getting the world's best care for our dollars, according to a...

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Live, Joy and Wait

Jack Schimmelman | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Self-Awareness, Health, Mindless, Spiritual, Meditation, Doctors, Journey, Functional, Medicine, Illness, Mindful, Spiritual Development, Healthy Living News
Jack Schimmelman

One thing about spiritual journeys is that they are not sexy. They are not brilliant. I did not become peaceful.

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Get Your Doctor to Stop Using Medical Jargon

Richard C. Senelick, M.D. | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Jargon, Doctors, Medical Jargon, Health Literacy, Patients, Medical Language, Doctor Patient Relationship, Doctor-Patient Relationship, Health News, Healthy Living News
Richard C. Senelick, M.D.

Physicians do a terrible job at assessing a patient's health literacy. We are educating a new generation of doctors and nurses to use plain language, but in the meantime there are some steps you can take so you don't fall into the same trap that I did.

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Unbefrackinglievable

Sen. Daylin Leach | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Hydrofracking, Doctors, Act 13, Marcellus Shale, Pennsylvania Medical Society, Politics News
Sen. Daylin Leach

In the recently passed Marcellus Shale "fracking" bill, known as "Act 13″ to the general public and as "Christmas Morning" to the natural gas industry, drillers do not have to reveal to the public what is in the fracking fluid they are pumping into the ground.

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Jeffrey Young

BUFFETTCARE: Warren Buffett Gets All The Health Care He Wants -- So Why Can't We?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Obamacare, Health Care Costs, Health Care Reform, Warren Buffett Cancer, Warren Buffett, Doctors, Cancer, Business, Healthcare Reform, Medicine, Health Care, Healthcare, Healthcare Costs, Business News

Warren Buffett's prostate cancer diagnosis and his decision to undergo radiation therapy underscores the difficulty of cutting back on medical tests a...

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Selling Doctors To Other Doctors: How Marketers Influence Referrals To Specialists

The Huffington Post | Jeffrey Young | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Marketing, Doctors, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Health Care, Healthcare Costs, Healthcare, Video, Money News

Medical specialists are tearing a page out of a playbook created by drug and medical device companies by hiring marketers to pitch their services to f...

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JOKE: The Touchy-Feely Doctor

Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Marlo Thomas, Jokes, Laugh of the Day, Comedy and Satire, Doctors, Lotd, Women News

A woman and a baby were in the doctor's examining room, waiting for the doctor to come in for the baby's first exam. The doctor walked in and began ex...

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Why Can't Doctors Hear Me?

Nancy K. Humphreys | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Doctor-Patient Communication, Doctor Patient Relationship, Doctor-Patient Relationship, Doctors, Personal Health, Patients, Doctor Patient Communication, Healthy Living News
Nancy K. Humphreys

Doctors have created dictionaries full of terms, in Latin no less, to talk to each other about medical issues. Why on earth can't they come up with a list of terms in English, words they trust patients can use to tell them exactly what feels wrong with us?

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Voting Maybe

Warren Adler | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Polls, Politics, Candidate, Doctors, Advertising, America, Voting, Politics News
Warren Adler

I no longer take anything at face value. Like Freud asking, "What do women want?" I find myself asking this question without regard to gender...

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Is Your Doctor Telling You The Whole Truth?

Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Fox News, Dr-David-Samadi, Doctors, Fox and Friends, Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Dr. David Samadi, Harvard Medical School, Fifty News

Dr. David Samadi was on "Fox & Friends" Tuesday morning discussing the results of a survey of American doctors revealing that many are willing to be l...

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The Doctor Will See You ... Sometime? The Longest And Shortest Doctor's Office Wait Times By State

Posted 04.04.2012

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The doctor-patient relationship is a delicate thing. And perhaps nothing is more irksome with today's mile-a-minute schedules than wasting time in the...

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Does Your Doctor Practice Politics?

M. Gregg Bloche, M.D., J.D. | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Catholicism, Religious Freedom, Sandra Fluke, Asperger's Syndrome, Obama Health Care, Catholic Church, Women's Health, Health, Georgetown University, Contraception, Adhd, Evolution, Birth Control, Doctors, Cancer, Ptsd, Faith, Healthy Living Health News, Healthy Living News
M. Gregg Bloche, M.D., J.D.

We should ask our doctors about the politics with a small "p" that's embedded in their advice -- the moral and cultural leanings that weigh on clinical judgment.

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The $83,000 Finger: Insurance May Not Protect You From Large Medical Bills

Credit.com | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Doctors, Medical Bills, Medical Costs, Health Insurance, Insurance, Out-of-Network Costs, Insurance Costs, Medical Debt, Money News
Credit.com

Think you're covered when it comes to your medical bills because you have good health insurance? Don't be so sure.

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How Active Should We Be in Our Own Medical Care?

Erin Smith | Posted 06.02.2012

Read More: Leukemia, Responsibility, Doctor Patient Communication, Medical Care, Doctors, Doctor-Patient Relationship, Personal Safety, Personal Health, Personal Health Care, Personal Care, Healthy Living News
Erin Smith

Be a thinking, active, participating person in your family's health care. Do your homework. Trust your gut instinct. Ask questions, even if you feel uncomfortable doing so.

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