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New Study into the Impact of Medical Prejudice on HMS Patients

23 hours ago ago from Hypermobility Hope

There is an excellent new study out this month in the Disability and Rehabilitation Journal, which investigates the effects disrespectful encounters with health care professionals has on Ehlers-Danlos and Hypermobility Syndrome patients. The study found that these negative experiences are not only psychologically and emotionally damaging, but can adversely influence the long-term health of such patients who are often hesitant to seek medical ...

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Forcing people to buy healthcare insurance

12 hours ago ago from I am dying

Today I read an article in the Los Angeles Times about forcing people to pay for insurance coverage. See the following article: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-healthcare-qa21-2009dec21,0,3694244.story Any time the government starts requiring people to buy health insurance coverage I am afraid that we are heading down a slippery slope.  As the article discusses you run into the problem of young healthy people having to ...

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Nursing Degrees and Future Career Projections

22 hours ago ago from Health Resources

What does the future look like for nursing careers? It is predicted that in the next ten to twenty years, things might be quite different from how they currently stand. As new technologies, treatments and drugs, shifts in health care policies, insurance policies, limited healthcare professionals especially nurses, indications are that the health care profession may have to reinvent itself. For instance, with advancements in technology, many ...

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6 hours ago ago from Vital Ethics - ACLS PALS BLS/CPR & First Aid Classes

  Chiropractic care today is well-established as a complimentary and alternative health care discipline. Chiropractors treat patients with health problems involving the musculoskeletal system. They treat the effects of these problems on the nervous system and, through it, on the general health. They combine methods of mainstream and alternative medicine to form a new and much more effective system. Thus a special feature of ...

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A New Healthcare System Will Still Require Patient Advocacy

15 hours ago ago from Patients are Powerful

As a Chicago chiropractor , I wait anxiously along with my patients and the rest of the country for the passing of a new comprehensive and compassionate Health Care Bill. And, along with the questions of cost and inclusiveness that everyone is asking, I believe that we should also be asking if an overhaul of the U.S. heathcare system will include simplification ? Let's face it, our current system is not only horribly expensive and amazingly ...

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D. Brad Wright: Islands of Excellence in a Sea of Mediocrity

22 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

A short time ago, I wrote a series of posts about the relative cost of a variety of health care services in the United States as compared to other industrialized western nations. The results, you might recall, indicated that prices in the U.S. are far and away higher than they are in the other countries considered, which more than likely explains why per capita health care spending in the U.S. is roughly double that of the next closest ...

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