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Where Cash Is King, What Happens to Patients?
I’ve started hearing more about physician practices that are opting out of…
The First Amendment, in Your Medicine Cabinet
No American in 2014 who watches television, reads a magazine, goes online…
Healthcare Progress Depends On “E Interventions”
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists…
Big Data = Big Brother? Leveraging Transaction Data for Better Healthcare
Based on the results of countless studies - such as a 2011…
Advanced Care Planning: What to Do Now
(Originally published on Patient Empowerment Network)If you are an adult, you need to…
Nursing Home Complaint Centers Fields Your Calls for Deaths Around Septic Shock
The Nursing Home Complaint Center believes that, based on the calls they…
Top 8 ACA Delays: Blatantly Illegal or Temporary Courses of Action?
Summary: With so many ACA delays thus far, is the ACA really…
Patient Nonadherence: A Rational Reaction to Sub-Optimal Physician-Patient Communication
I have been working on a paper exploring the link between physician-patient…
Keeping Patients in the Dark
Back when I slaved in the depths of Hunter Thompson’s “shallow money…
FDA Offers Guidance on Social Media Etiquette for Medical Device Manufacturers
On June 18, 2014, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released…