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Archives: News/Commentary
Study Proves Women Patients Experience Measurable Increases in Stress Hormone While Waiting for Biopsy Results
News/Commentary
By Cheree Cleghorn, Editor
The study below is about women’s biochemically-measured stress levels while awaiting the results of a breast biopsy.
The stress hormone involved, cortisol, also could “compromise” future treatment if the woman does have breast cancer.
Now that there is objective proof of the need for speedy findings, speedy medical action should follow.
This is one of [...]
Topics: How To Speak Doctor, News, News/Commentary, You, the Patient
“The Invincibles”….Twenty-Somethings…Are Largest Uninsured Group
News/Commentary
People in their twenties are the largest group of uninsured people in America, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report.
Many of them are forced to choose between health insurance and paying for rent and food.
Other twenty-somethings think they don’t need health insurance—-and that’s why this age group is labeled the “invincibles.” They are too young [...]
Topics: Friends & Families, How To Speak Doctor, News, News/Commentary, You, the Patient
Good Short-Term and Long-Term Ideas for Making Food Supply Safer
Commentary
This editorial offers short-term and long-term solutions for the problems we have had—-too many food scares in recent years.
In addition to that, these are not times when one needs to have any other scares raised, but a link is worth mentioning.
Some advocates of the “buy local” and farmer’s markets have been making the point for [...]
Topics: Friends & Families, News/Commentary
A Cardiologist Who Knows the Patient Senses When to Act and Swiftly When Symptoms May Not Be Obvious
News/Commentary
The writer of this column explains why having a friend, a cardiologist—someone who knew him well—- saved his life with a long-distance telephone diagnosis and swift action.
The “telephone” cardiologist found another cardiologist friend nearby to go to work on the patient right away.
The right cardiologist and a health plan, too, of course—-those are this patient’s [...]
Topics: How To Speak Doctor, News, News/Commentary, You, the Patient
“This Peanut Plant Is Just an Example of the Weakness in Our System,” Says Food Safety Expert
News
A food safety expert quoted in the story below, Michael Doyle of the University of Georgia, has been asked to review industry practices by the American Peanut Council following the salmonella outbreak traced to a plant in that state.
Doyle is quoted by the wire service as saying that he thinks that the state would likely [...]
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You Have Enlightened Self-Interest Here…Be Glad Children’s Health Bill Includes Legal Immigrants’ Kids
News/Commentary
By Cheree Cleghorn, Editor
The passage of the popular children’s health bill hit a glitch with the addition of the children of legal immigrants. Republicans did not like that addition and warned that bipartisan solutions were less likely in the future.
This program has had, up until now, excellent bipartisan support.
Why Do You Need Legal Immigrants’ Kids [...]
Topics: Friends & Families, News/Commentary, You, the Patient
The Problem Isn’t That We Have Too Many 85-Year-Olds…The Cost Problem Is Due to…?
News/Commentary
By Cheree Cleghorn, Editor
President Obama has appointed a budget director, Peter Orszag, who over the last two years has become one of the country’s leading experts on the looming budget mess that is health care.
The article quoted points out that one of the only “growth” industries in the U.S. right now is health care—but what [...]
Topics: Friends & Families, News/Commentary
If You Had Been Sitting in That Sinking Plan in the Hudson River, What Do You Think Would Have Gone Through Your Mind?
News/Commentary
After a near-miss with death, there always are the questions, mainly from television reporters, “How do you feel?”
Well, how do they think a person who escaped death feels? Glad not to be dead.
However, there is an after-that, after the initial reaction, which comes days, weeks or even months later. It is when the full impact [...]
Topics: Friends & Families, News/Commentary
A Doctor’s Best Advice About Health Care Reform…He Knows What He’s Writing About
News/Commentary
In his column, the Doctor’s Office, Benjamin Brewer, M.D., a primary care doctor, explains what health care reform needs to be.
This is clean, clear and, to our minds, right.
Please read the whole article. His down-in-the-trenches plan makes great sense—and reflects the day-to-day needs for successful reform.
Wall Street Journal
…”To get real reform we’re going to [...]
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Obama Administration Needs to Roll Back “Conscience Rule” Regulation, Effective Last Tuesday
News/Commentary
By Cheree Cleghorn, Editor
(Disclosure: Editor worked in hospitals targeted for demonstrations on this anniversary in the past. One year what appeared to be a letter bomb was thrown into a large hospital waiting room, filled with many elderly people who could not move quickly or be moved quickly. Had this object been a real bomb—and [...]
Topics: How To Speak Doctor, News/Commentary, You, the Patient
