Monthly Archives: January 2014

By Shift Doctors The Shift Doctors (Marion Ross, Ph.D. and Tracy Latz, M.D.) have taught classes and seminars in personal transformation since 2002. They have come together to assist people with transforming anger/resentment, guilt/shame, disappointment/heartache, stress, fear/anxiety, lack of self-love, & grief/loss, and then reacquaint people … Continue reading →

Email access, online scheduling, and electronic records would all make healthcare easier for patients. Here’s why some doctors are still reluctant to modernize. OLGA KHAZANJAN 21 2014, 8:30 AM ET (Taken from The Atlantic) AP Whenever I feel like taking … Continue reading →

Nearly 50 percent of black men and 40 percent of white men are arrested at least once on non-traffic-related crimes by the time they turn 23, according to a new study. One of the authors of the study published this … Continue reading →

Hospitals Must Provide Charity Care Assistance Program February 14, 2012 Author: Trilby de Jung Charity care refers to free or low cost care provided by hospitals to uninsured or underinsured patients. New York State has provided significant state funding to hospitals for charity … Continue reading →

            SKILLMAN, N.J. — The only hint that something is different inside millions of bottles of Johnson’s Baby Shampoo arriving on store shelves are two words: “Improved Formula.” The shampoo has the same amber hue, … Continue reading →

The first thing my new patient did when she walked into my office was breath an enormous sigh of relief. “It was so hard to get this appointment with you,” she said. “It took weeks!” Unfortunately, my patient is not … Continue reading →

Seeking affordable health insurance, Todd Obolsky, a consultant, signed up with MetroPlus, unaware that it was the health insurance plan of New York’s public hospital system. Michael Rubenstein for The New York Times Todd Obolsky lives in a studio apartment in … Continue reading →

By KATIE HAFNER  (original article) January 12, 2014 DALLAS — Amid the controlled chaos that defines an average afternoon in an urban emergency department, Dr. Marian Bednar, an emergency room physician at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, entered the exam room of … Continue reading →

Although the federal government is spending more than $22 billion to encourage hospitals and doctors to adopt electronic health records, it has failed to put safeguards in place to prevent the technology from being used for inflating costs and overbilling, … Continue reading →

A husband and three children are left grieving after an otherwise healthy 29-year-old woman died of the flu virus. Alice Jones, 29, died Jan. 6 at University General Hospital in Dallas after being sick for four days, ABC News reported. … Continue reading →