Fred gives examples of what’s wrong in our current healthcare crazy quilt, patchwork of healthcare purveyors, providers, and the patients who are on the receiving end. Bariatric surgical banding is recommended at lower body mass weights by (guess who) the bariatric surgeons. The FDA must decide, but higher costs won’t factor into it. Also bad news from urology, cancer care, … Read more about this episode...

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Adventures In Healthcare Reform – A Lot More in Healthcare Needs Reforming

Fred talks about Atul Gawande. best selling author of books on healthcare, the latest of which is The Checklist Manifesto. Gawande states that 40 % of the US population doesn’t receive healthcare and the US is closing in on spending 20% of its entire economy on health care. Other topics:health insurance premiums have surged 41 % from 2003 to 2009, … Read more about this episode...

Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Further Commentary on the sorry state of US healthcare

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Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Week 1049

Focused more than ever on the need to improve healthcare and healthcare reform, Fred talks about the need to keep the current law and strengthen it to get lower costs, create a true high performance health care system, and a consistently high quality system of care. For example, a recent article published in Health Affairs estimates that 100 million emergency … Read more about this episode...

Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Fred Talks About Healthcare Reform, ER’s and More!

Fred talks about the good, the bad, and the ugly in current health care debate. Teed off by all the misinformation, threats, and ignorance up on display nationally in the recent elections, he tells how the good of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) or the health care reform law requires insurers to provide many preventive services at … Read more about this episode...

Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Raves, but More Rants Re: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Health care providers have wasted billions of dollars in buying health care software, computer systems, consulting contracts, and most don’t have a complete electronic medical record, Chris Couie tells us why and how that effects your health insurance costs. His book, The IT Handbook for Business, tells how to manage information technology costs. EMR (Electronic Medical Records) are the … Read more about this episode...

Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Information Technology for Healthcare and YOU!

Dr. David Sussman, Orthopedic Surgeon, talks about the health and legal considerations for those involved in auto accidents in an entertaining and enlightening way. The dangers of disability compensation lead some victims into a disability focused life rather than to full recovery. Health care reform so far doesn’t address any of the policy and practical issues in this fickle and … Read more about this episode...

Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Been in an Auto Accident or Know Someone Who Has? Listen UP!

Jan Janzen, author of Breast Health Exposed, talks about what every woman must know about her breasts. Jan says that healthy breasts don’t get cancer. Jan is a speaker, educator and entrepreneur whose mission is to eradicate breast cancer. She talks about the five myths about breast health and the ten secrets that your doctor will never tell you about … Read more about this episode...

Adventures In Healthcare Reform – What Everyone Should Know About Women’s Breasts

Fred Malphurs talks about the miscellaneous factoids that reveal a compelling story about his three categories of factoids: 1. No one is actually in charge, 2. It’s not that the right hand knoweth no what the left is doing. Its an octopus and none of the tentacles know what any of the other tentacles are doing., 3. Where is the … Read more about this episode...

Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Healthcare: Who is in charge? Nobody

Jacqueline Klosek, attorney and author, talks about how people can protect their privacy and security while taking control of their medical information. She tells us about the risks and advantages of personal health records. Health privacy is put at risk by social networking sites and possibly effects one’s relations with their employer. Her book, Why Healthcare Reform is Not Enough … Read more about this episode...

Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Protect Your Privacy AND Take Control of Your Med Info!

Tina Lipscomb, RN, tells us all about case management. Case managers, Registered Nurses or Social Workers, coordinate care for patients across the spectrum of healthcare, including acute, chronic, long term care, hospice, palliative care, home care, etc. Faced with a new and serious diagnosis, talk to a care manager. Want to support better quality and more affordable health care? Go … Read more about this episode...

Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Who’s Advocating For Your Health? Check out caremanager.org

Alan Smith, author of Unbreak Your Health: Your Map to the World of Complimentary & Alternative Therapies, talks about his own journey to better health. Told by Mayo Clinic specialists that there was nothing they could do for his pain, Alan refused to accept it and began his personal mission of healing himself and spreading the word about complimentary and … Read more about this episode...

Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Unbreak Your Health: Show me the Alternatives!

Lorene Burkhart’s book, Sick of Doctors? is a prescription for patient empowerment. Lorene discusses what she has learned from her own patient/physician experiences and offers valuable resources for building your own personal health care record and wants you to record every visit and every test. She places appropriate concern about the patient/pysician encounter, especially what is being communicated!… Read more about this episode...

Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Sick of Doctors?: Then Do Something About it!

David Blender, an accredited hypnotherapist, talks about hypnosis and hypnotherapy. Clinical hypnosis is used to reduce anxiety, eliminate chronic pain, improve performance in competitive sports, increase confidence and creativity, reduce fear of dentistry or surgery, eliminate fears, control bad habits, improve job performance and memory, stop smoking, eliminate insomnia, hasten medical recovery and much more!… Read more about this episode...

Adventures In Healthcare Reform – David Blender, Hypnotherapist, Puts Us Into a Trance!

Joni James Aldrich talks about lifelines to W-I-N against cancer. Joni’s book, The Saving of Gordon, tell the story of her husband’s battle against cancer, the mistakes made, the lessons learned and her resolve to provide others with the tools needed to have a fighting chance against cancer. 4,000 people in the US are given a diagnosis of cancer every … Read more about this episode...

Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Diagnosis: Cancer; What’s the caregiver to do?

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