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Summary: Dr. Evan Levine, author of "What Your Doctor Won't (or can't ) Tell You " and Matt LoGuercio take a humorous and irreverent look at the problems in our health-not-care system.
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Ask any nurse or doctor, " What is the number one reason for for patients to have recurrent admissions?" Most will tell you about poor compliance with medical therapy. The cost to our system is $300 Billion dollars and yet too few are doing anything to reduce noncompliance. Reduce this problem and we could infuse billions of dollars into some form of affordable healthcare.
An insider's look into the ten things a cardiologist should not do. Hold on to your hair and have a listen.
An insider's look into the ten things a cardiologist should not do. Hold on to your hair and have a listen.
The latest in the insurance con game will be the the expansion of large medical center- based EPOs. Penny Wheeler and Allina are just one of many willing to proved this EXCLUSIVE care. Have a listen.
The inside story that discusses how many of our top doctors are top hypocrites who manipulate the rules for their own benefit.
The inside story that discusses how many of our top doctors are top hypocrites who manipulate the rules for their own benefit.
We highlight how the Minnesota Hospital Association, possibly through the most duplicitous of tactics, prevented the Minnesota Department of Health from completing a study that cost its taxpayers $250,000 dollars.
We highlight how the Minnesota Hospital Association, possibly through the most duplicitous of tactics, prevented the Minnesota Department of Health from completing a study that cost its taxpayers $250,000 dollars.
A nurses story of being bullied by another nurse.
A nurses story of being bullied by another nurse.
Recurrent mishaps at Cayuga Medical Center, in Ithaca New York, has resulted in recurrent firings of their nurses. As a result many seasoned nurses have left and are now being replaced by temporary travel nurses. With poor morale of their staff and even a death of a patient sitting in the waiting area of their ER why hasn't the CEO or his associates been disciplined? Have a listen.....
Recurrent mishaps at Cayuga Medical Center, in Ithaca New York, has resulted in recurrent firings of their nurses. As a result many seasoned nurses have left and are now being replaced by temporary travel nurses. With poor morale of their staff and even a death of a patient sitting in the waiting area of their ER why hasn't the CEO or his associates been disciplined? Have a listen.....
According to report published in the Ithaca Journal, John Rudd, the CEO of CMC, admitted that a patient's death in his hospital waiting room was "a result of a series of breakdowns." But this troubled hospital then appears to suggest the the bulk of responsibility belongs to one of their temporary nurses, who worked in their Emergency Room triage; telling the Journal that she " did not take vital signs" and "that she falsified records."
According to report published in the Ithaca Journal, John Rudd, the CEO of CMC, admitted that a patient's death in his hospital waiting room was "a result of a series of breakdowns." But this troubled hospital then appears to suggest the the bulk of responsibility belongs to one of their temporary nurses, who worked in their Emergency Room triage; telling the Journal that she " did not take vital signs" and "that she falsified records."
The last place you would expect anyone to die, unexpectedly, is in a Emergency Room Waiting Area. This tragic story, told to me by nurses who work at this hospital, including the nurse in charge of the triage area, has managed to elude the mainstream media. Is this the first of future tragic events to occur?
