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Surgery Mission

14 hours ago ago from Missions in Global Health

Surgery Mission Visit Our Website About Us Ways to Give The catastrophe in Haiti continues to unravel. Our ongoing efforts will help rebuild their lives. Find out how you can help. Thursday, February 4, 2010 by Ellen Libby This is just one of thousands of stories portraying the devastation in Haiti. Yes, the support has been overwhelming but we must continue to help bring ...

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Myth 33. Reducing geographic disparities will reduce spending without sacrificing quality.

17 hours ago ago from AAPS News of the Day

The cure for excessive U.S. medical spending, according to prominent academics as well as Peter Orszag, director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), is called the “30% solution.” Its basis is the Dartmouth Atlas , produced by the Dartmouth Health Policy Group, whose leaders concluded that “if we sent 30% of the doctors in this country to Africa, we might raise the level of health on both continents.” The recently passed ...

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Kill Two Birds With One Stone – Medical Tourism

18 hours ago ago from INSIDE Bangkok

Medical tourism is a fairly new term used to describe an amazing amount of people globally that travel world-wide for health care. Why these people travel and for what differs, but basically there are two types of medical tourists - the regular tourist that adds a visit to the doctor for some minor treatment, as part of his or her holiday, and the tourist travelling primarily for medical treatment. Before there even was a term 'medical ...

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Medical Transcription Services for Family Practices

23 hours ago ago from Medical Transcription Outsourcing

Medical transcription services offer enhanced file management capability for family practices. Medical transcription services for family practices are allied health services undertaken by outsourcing companies. The service is gaining fast popularity among doctors, physicians and surgeons who want to lessen their administrative burden. A large number of patients depend upon family practice physicians. This in turn increases the ...

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Bringing health care to the people - Ericsson

17 hours ago ago from Ericsson

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Grebin, Pioneer in Palliative Care for Kids, Dies

13 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal

Driven by the memory of a young patient who died alone in the hospital, Burton Grebin established one of the nation's first palliative-care programs aimed solely at children. Dr. Grebin, who died Jan. 24 at age 68, transformed a 40-bed children's hospital in Queens, N.Y., into one of the largest providers of care for special-needs pediatric patients, including those with AIDS, head traumas and eating disorders. Most poignant was the ...

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Long-Term Care Hospitals Face Little Scrutiny

5 hours ago ago from The New York Times

No one at the hospital noticed that Tina Bell-Jackman was dying. Multimedia Steve Hebert for The New York Times GOING PUBLIC Sheryl Laing, who worked for Select Medical, said she grew frustrated with its management. On the night of June 26, 2007, Ms. Bell-Jackman turned restlessly in her bed in Room 7 at Select Specialty Hospital of Kansas City, a small medical center that specializes in ...

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As Focus Shifts To Jobs, The Uninsured Seek Solutions : NPR

16 hours ago ago from NPR

Search hear continuous streams 24-Hour Program Stream NPR News and Shows hear the latest news [4 min 45 sec] Latest NPR Newscast As Focus Shifts To Jobs, The Uninsured Seek Solutions February 9, 2010 Audio for this story from All Things Considered will be available at approx. 7:00 p.m. ET ...

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Newt Gingrich and John Goodman: Ten GOP Health Ideas for Obama

12 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal

'If you have a better idea, show it to me." That was President Barack Obama's challenge two weeks ago to House Republicans regarding health-care reform. He has since called for a bipartisan forum, not to start over on health reform but to "move forward" on the "best ideas that are out there." The best ideas out there are not those that were passed by the House and Senate last year, which consist of more spending, more regulations and more ...

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Dr. Behzad Mohit: Health Care: Peoples' Call For Action

19 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

Health care in this country is in dire straits. I've written two books suggesting fixes for our health care system. The system I proposed involves the creation of an independent people-funded, people-managed insurance coop. All Americans who are now covered by Medicare and Medicaid would still be covered. The government would pay for their policies. The coop would be nonprofit, thus patients wouldn't suffer because of the conflicts of ...

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