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The Truth About Medicare

Francine Hardaway | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Single Payer, Provider, Health Care Reform, Patient, Payer, Medicare, Public Option, Obama Health Care, Politics News
Francine Hardaway

Medicare writes the checks. It doesn't operate on the wrong leg, over-radiate a cancer patient, miss a cancer, or give people too many prescriptions.

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The Secret of Patient Care: Lessons From A Bathroom Wall

Dr. Larry Dossey | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Caring, Patient, Healing, Doctor, Empathy, Compassion, Health, Patient Care, Living News
Dr. Larry Dossey

When physicians express caring, empathy, and compassion, the duration and severity of illness are often reduced and the body's immune system is stimulated.

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What is a Myelogram?

Helene Pavlov | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Hospital for Special Surgery, Spinal Cord, Imaging, Hospitals, Radiology, Medical-Testing, Patient, Nerve Roots, Dr Helene Pavlov, Mri, Medicine, Back Pain, Myelogram, Living News
Helene Pavlov

A myelogram can help your doctor make a diagnosis or plan the appropriate treatment to help relieve back or leg symptoms.

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Radiology, Rising Healthcare Costs and Self-Referral

Helene Pavlov | Posted 05.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Radiology, Patient, Radiologist, Mri, Savings, Healthcare Costs, Healthcare, Ct, Business News
Helene Pavlov

Their expertise increases the potential of capturing the right image for the clinical concern and even more importantly their interpretation of that image is without motivation to suggest surgery or intervention.

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Hilarious Video: Health Insurance Companies Ruining Your Love Life?

Sally Kohn | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Patient, Reform, Video, Universal Health Care, Doctor, Health Care, Sex, Health, Politics News
Sally Kohn

Insurance companies want to do everything they can to stop us from having a public choice because they like having a monopoly and driving up costs (and their profits). And they'll win, unless you help us stop them.

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Too Young For This: Patient of Courage Nomination

Alice Crisci | Posted 07.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Plastic Surgery, Courage, Breast Cancer, Health, Alice, Patient, Cancer, Crisci, Death, Life, American Board of Facial and Reconstructive Surgery, Living News
Alice Crisci

I recall choking out "its cancer," for the first time, two small words with a mere nine letters that bear so much weight on the human heart, few can top them. Is this what courage means?

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