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13 hours ago ago from The Medical Quack

I have added a bit of text from my post back in June of 2009 below about this service which was a pretty complete go through with what was posted at that time. You can enroll as either a patient or a doctor to participate. If enrolling as a physician there will be some stipulations and processes to go through to get set up. OptumHealth also have their own PHR (personal health records) program and I am guessing this is where the information ...

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15 hours ago ago from Glorfindel of Gondolin

An opinion piece in today's NYT: FOR anyone who has had to wait a long time to schedule a medical appointment, it might seem as if the world needs more doctors, and that training more of them would be a good idea. An amendment that teaching hospitals are pushing to include in the health care legislation before a final vote is taken in the Senate and the House would do just that. It would add 15,000 medical residency slots to the 100,000 ...

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9 hours ago ago from Home Treatment of Boil Natural Remedy

The method of detecting skin cancer, the most common form of cancer in the United States, will be practiced with a monthly self examination combined with a yearly visit to your doctor. Early detection is vital because, if diagnosed soon enough, skin cancer is sort of perpetually curable. There are three main types of skin cancer, all of which are visible if you recognize what to seem for. Melanoma, one among the most sorts of skin ...

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5 hours ago ago from SainTis

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15 hours ago ago from WhiteCoat's Call Room

This guy must have been really naughty this year. An assailant brutally beat a man who was stacking wood near his home, leaving him with gashes and bruises over most of his body. Emergency department staff were amazed that the patient was not in worse shape. Police are on the lookout for one of Santa's reindeer . Beating a 5-week-old infant to the point that she has to go to the emergency department won't garner you much sympathy in the ...

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Scott Gottlieb: What Doctors and Patients Have to Lose Under ObamaCare

6 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal

Democrats are touting the American Medical Association's endorsement of President Obama's health plan. But there's an important reason why the American College of Surgeons and 18 other specialty groups are opposed. The plan's most tangible efforts to restrain medical costs are through its controls on specialist physicians. Based on the government's premise that they often make wasteful treatment decisions, the health-care legislation in ...

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