Jan 8, 2020
Over recent decades, healthcare has been at the forefront of the political agenda in the United States. Each of the two major parties have suggested that they have the solution to bringing down costs and improving the quality of care. Yet, they only debate the cost of healthcare delivery and never address the issue of quality. This is because we can quantify the cost of care, but we have a hodgepodge of metrics to try and determine quality. The recipients of healthcare are the ones who are impacted daily by this quality confusion. As the debate continues about who should...
Read MoreFiled Under: concierge healthcare, Health Management, healthcare quality
Dec 17, 2019
We live very fast-paced lives these days and the idea that the family sits around the dinner table every night to discuss the day and experience a home-cooked meal is no longer integral to our lives. Those of us who have children of school age are constantly moving them from activity to activity, whether to a dance or sporting events. Thus, the evening meal has become an ordeal of what can we eat and how fast can we finish our food. While this change in our lifestyle can be explored sociologically to study the impact it's having on the family,...
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Dec 3, 2019
In every major metropolitan area within the United States, you will find the names of leading medical malpractice attorneys, on TV and billboards, alerting you to their availability. I sometimes wonder if TV and radio stations would face imminent bankruptcy if the advertising revenue from plaintiffs' attorneys and politicians was restricted on the airwaves? As a licensed attorney for many decades, I can remember when these massive advertising campaigns by lawyers were considered illegal by the respective state bar associations. However, as time has moved forward, we have achieved this excessive commercialization of medical malpractice. In a recent Medscape Survey...
Read MoreFiled Under: changes in healthcare, doctor shortages, healthcare quality, Insider, patient satisfaction
Nov 20, 2019
I once read an article that one of my colleagues left on my desk entitled "2017 Healthcare in Crisis, Needs a Revolution" by Dr. Bill Bysinger, PhD. The opening sentence of this articles states "Having been involved in healthcare since 1980, I continue to be frustrated by the lack of real change or improvement in the industry". In addition, we are confronted every day with news about what our political leaders are contemplating doing in regards to repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). For those of us who spend most of our waking hours involved in the process of...
Read MoreFiled Under: changes in healthcare, doctor shortages, healthcare quality, patient satisfaction
Nov 6, 2019
Our state of mind has a profound impact on all aspects of our life. In a fascinating article in the October 22nd edition of the New York Times, “You May Only Be as Old as You Feel”, Emily Laber-Warren explores the difference between chronological age and "subjective age". We each have a chronological age. When we were children, we were often asked "How old are you?" Always being anxious to be older, we usually held up more fingers than our age. So our mother or father told us we were going to be that many fingers, but right now we were one finger...
Read MoreFiled Under: Mental Health, mental status affects health, retirement