June 16th, 2010 by Toni Brayer, M.D. in Better Health Network, Health Tips, Opinion, True Stories
Tags: Doctor-Patient Communication, Doctor-Patient Connection, Doctor-Patient Responsibility, Family Medicine, General Medicine, Internal Medicine, Medical Records, Patient Confidentiality, Patient Embarrassment, Patient Privacy, Patient-Doctor Partnership, Patient-Doctor Relationship, Primary Care Physician, Private Nature Of Medicine, Secrets From Your Doctor, Shouldn't Keep From Your Doctor, Tell Your Doctor
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It’s important to have an open relationship with your primary care physician because the more he or she knows about your health and lifestyle, the better able he or she is to diagnose illnesses as they come up.
You wouldn’t take your car to a mechanic and not tell him that the brake is sticking, and a human organism is thousands of times more complicated than a car. But patients are shy. They’re embarrassed. They don’t want you to think badly about them, so they often leave out important information that’s critical for the physician to know. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at EverythingHealth*
June 16th, 2010 by AndrewSchorr in Audio, Better Health Network, Expert Interviews, Health Tips, Opinion
Tags: Andrew Schorr, Dr. David Camitta, Dr. Edward Dy, Family Medicine, General Medicine, Internal Medicine, Patient Power, Patient-Doctor Relationship, Preventative Medicine, Preventive Medicine, Primary Care Physician, Screenings, Staying Healthy, UW Medicine Neighborhood Clinics, Vaccinations, Western Washington
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Experts say over 100,000 lives a year could be saved in the United States if patients focused more on preventive medicine. What is preventive medicine? What can you do in your everyday life that may make a long-term difference?
On this Patient Power program, you will hear from two board certified internists from the UW Medicine Neighborhood Clinics in Western Washington. They will discuss how having an ongoing relationship with a primary care physician who you check in with regularly –- even when you’re well –- gives you the best chance at staying healthy.
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June 16th, 2010 by SteveSimmonsMD in Better Health Network, Health Policy, Opinion, Primary Care Wednesdays, True Stories
Tags: DocTalker, Dr. Steve Simmons, Healthcare IT, Healthcare reform, ICD-10, ICD-9 Codes, Meaninful Use, Patient-Doctor Relationship, Primary Care
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I believe that those controlling the purse strings are steering modern medicine towards the practice of seeing patients more as the sum of their medical problems than as individual people. Patients have become streams of data as opposed to real human lives.
Consider the dynamics of a family: a wife may worry about her husband while their child adores a father she instinctively knows to be irreplaceable. Modern medicine, however, may only see a diabetic with hypertension and a cholesterol-level running too high. The computers programmed for those advocating the power of data to revolutionize medicine would boil this man down to his “meaningful” essence — numbers, for the above imaginary man: 250.00, 401.0, and 272.0. Read more »
June 15th, 2010 by GarySchwitzer in Better Health Network, Health Policy, News, Opinion, Research
Tags: CBS News, Department of Psychology and Biobehavioral Sciences, Dr. Gail Wyatt, Drug Hype, Email Spam, FDA Vote, FDA-Approved Drugs, Female Sexual Problems, Flibanserin, Food and Drug Administration, Gary Schwitzer, Greed, HealthNewsReview.org, HSDD, Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder, Internet Drug Sales, Low Sex Drive, Medscape, Merrill Goozner, Online Drug Marketing, Pharmaceutical Solution, Prescription Drugs, Relationship Problems, Sexual Health, The New View Campaign, UCLA, University of California-Los Angeles, Vague Diagnosis, Women's Health
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This week the FDA will vote on flibanserin, the much-talked-about drug for women with the condition called hypoactive sexual desire disorder or — because everything in sexual health needs an acronym like ED or PE — HSDD.
On the eve of the FDA vote, CBS last week ran still another story about flibanserin. This drug has received so much news coverage, you’d think it cures cancer.
And CBS did little more than promote the hype even more, saying FDA approval “could translate into a $2 billion market in this country alone” and then failing to challenge the disease-mongering estimate of “10 percent to 30 percent of women” with this condition. It all just goes along with the drug company’s efforts to build a demand before the drug is even approved. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Gary Schwitzer's HealthNewsReview Blog*
June 15th, 2010 by Medgadget in Better Health Network, News, Research
Tags: Brain Surgery, Cerebrospinal Fluid Leaks, Cranial Cavity, Endoscopic Surgery, Eyelid Incision, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Less Invasive, Midline Brain Tumors, Neurosurgery, Pneumocephalus, Resection, Skull, Transpalpebral Orbitofrontal Craniotomy
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In the continuing effort to make surgery less invasive, physicians at Johns Hopkins Hospital are operating on the brain through a tiny incision in one of the eyelids instead of lifting a large piece of the skull.
Named transpalpebral orbitofrontal craniotomy, the procedure allows for access to the middle and front regions of the brain. The cranial cavity is reached through a hole created by removing a small, half-inch to one-inch-square section of skull bone right above the eyebrow. Endoscopic surgery can then be performed with help of previously obtained CT and MRI data. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Medgadget*
