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, and much more. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS The post Adventures In Healthcare Reform – A Lot Mor...
Dec 13, 2010•36 min
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, drug lobbylists spent over $100 million in 2009 and more. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS The post Adventures In Healthcare Re...
Dec 06, 2010•34 min
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Nov 29, 2010•33 min
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 room visits could be handled at less cost elsewhere. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS The post Adventures In Health...
Nov 22, 2010•33 min
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 no cost to the insured. But, change will come and Massachusetts health care reform experience shows us the flaws that need to be fixed. Subscribe ...
Nov 15, 2010•34 min
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 future for your health. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS The post Adventures In Health...
Nov 08, 2010•41 min
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 expensive process. We all ultimately pay for these expensive inefficiencies?. Subscribe with your favorite podcast pl...
Nov 01, 2010•41 min
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 your breasts. Some of her 21 secrets are to avoid anti-persperants and sleep in complete darkness. . Subscribe with your favorite podcast player A...
Oct 25, 2010•37 min
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 outrage? Wait for a future show to hear those factoids filed under ‘Where is the outrage?’ Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS The post Adventures In ...
Oct 18, 2010•37 min
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 is due out in the spring. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS The post Adventures In Healthcar...
Oct 11, 2010•34 min
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 to facebook: Americans for Healthcare. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS The post Adventures...
Oct 04, 2010•35 min
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 alternative health therapies. His website and book has all of articulately described. Among them are: Pilates, Applied Kinesiology, Bee-V...
Sep 27, 2010•35 min
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! Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS The post Adventures In Healthcare Refor...
Sep 20, 2010•37 min
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! Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS The post Adventures In Health...
Sep 13, 2010•36 min
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 day. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS The post Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Diagnosis: Cancer; What’s the caregiver to...
Sep 06, 2010•31 min
Dr. Ira Williams is interviewed. Dr. Ira’s Book, Misdiagnosed: Why Current Health Care Change is Malpractice offers keen insights into the failures of regulation and control of the quality of health care. Dr. Ira thinks that the US health care system has been developed like a weed patch with no master plan. Agencies set up to improve our health care like the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) have failed to provide the needed leadership to redesign health care. Subscribe with your...
Aug 29, 2010•35 min
Vicki Kind talks about the caregiver’s path to compassionate decision making. The choices made should reflect the patient’s wishes for the kind of care and caring that they want for themselves when a high level of care is needed such as after a stroke or at the end of life. The caregiver’s experience is about making choices for their loved one and maintaining oneself while often isolated from their previous life. AND ask questions! Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS The post...
Aug 23, 2010•36 min
Landileigh Nelson, the Vice President of the diabetesresource.com talks about the benefits of the on-line, one stop shopping, information loaded website. The all encompassing resource offers a free newsletter. Nelson talks about her diabetic condition which requires $300 worth of drugs per month and how health care reform provides great assistance to diabetics through the removal of precondition denials and eliminating lifetime caps. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS The po...
Aug 16, 2010•32 min
eCareDiary.com is a one stop shopping center designed to to make coordination of care and sharing of information easy for caregivers. John Mills and Susan Baida are the co-founders with their own experiences as caregivers that led them to create eCareDiary as a means to help caregivers simplify their own situations by providing the tools and information that the caregivers need so much. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS The post Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Taking Care...
Aug 09, 2010•34 min
Christian Wilde discusses stem cell therapies and the ongoing FDA trials for catastrophic diseases like heart disease, heart failure, MS, diabetes,stroke, back injury and more. His books, Miracle Stem Cell Heart Repair and Hidden Causes of Heart Attack and Stroke are both highly acclaimed. Wilde also discusses tumeric, an over the counter dietary supplement scientically proven to minimize cancer. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS The post Adventures In Healthcare Reform – A...
Aug 02, 2010•33 min
Dennis Torkko, President and Co-Founder of Santal Solutions, talks about OmSanA, the leading dual-purpose dietary supplement for maintaining both blood sugar and cholesterol levels. OmSanA is clinically proven and is a next-generation dietary supplement derived from a unique plant that grows in India and has been a natural folk medicine there since 5000 BC. Torrko also discusses health care bio technology and innovation. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS The post Adventures...
Jul 26, 2010•31 min
Dr. Cochran’s book, Oby’s Wisdom: A Caveman’s Simple Guide to Health and Well-being, gives the advice that we all have the ability to heal from within, and provides a fresh, sensible and practical approach to nutrition, exercise, wellness, spirituality and living. Dr. Cochran’s own story is inspiring and empowering. It is a tale of the natural way that helped him overcome years of chronic pain and become a marathon runner. Listen to his message about taking care of you! a marathon runner. Subscr...
Jul 19, 2010•34 min
Dr. Brian Flyer, an internist in private practice in Los Angeles, talks about how he changed his practice from an HMO driven factory-like assembly line to a practice dedicated to a limited number of patients who have direct access to him, on-time and unhurried office visits. He offers pre-paid primary care. For a small monthly fee, he provides unlimited primary care, labs, xrays, etc., thus cutting out the insurers! Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS The post Adventures In H...
Jul 12, 2010•33 min
Glenn Hammack, President and Board Chair of NuPhysicia, talks about telemedicine. NuPhysicia operates telemedicine methods developed and proven through serving hundreds of thousands of patients around the world. The technology uses face-to-face telemedicne, connecting doctors and patients via two-way video. Providing expert specialty care from oil rigs to isolated rural areas, telemedicine has arrived in a big way! Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS The post Adventures In He...
Jul 05, 2010•37 min
Melvin Kirschner, MD, explores the issues and controversies of medical practice in his new book, All Medicines are Poison. A retired family physician, Dr. Kirschner’s title is taken from his first medical school class in pharmacology. The professor said, “I am here to teach you how to poison people.” After a pause, he added, “without killing them, of course.” Any medicine has side effects and its benefits must be weighed against the risks. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS ...
Jun 28, 2010•34 min
Wayne Liebhard, MD, author of Elephants in the Exam Room, talks about the importance of the patient’s role in driving up the cost of health care. Dr. Liebhard’s book, Elephants in the Exam Room, addresses health care policy, the real drivers of expensive health care, the major factors that influence the high cost of health that are purely behavioral, what we can do right now to solve our health care cost ‘crisis’ and much, much more. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS The po...
Jun 21, 2010•34 min
Matt Simpson, Marketing Manager, Bulbstorm, talks about the ideas submitted in Bulbstorm’s town hall challenge. With over 300 ideas submitted and over 6,000 visitors, Bulbstorm considered the townhall a success and has set up another contest. No ideas, no problem, rate the ideas, share and comments on other’s ideas and possibly win prizes. The first winner’s idea was lower actual doctor costs. She won $1,000. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS The post Adventures In Healthca...
Jun 14, 2010•30 min
David Mair, Chief Operating Officer of China Connection Global Healthcare, talks about the importance of risk mangement in healthcare, business and the Olympics. Examples abound of bad risk management in Wall Street, the oil company BP and good risk management: the swine flu epidemic. The need to do more health care reform to reduce total health care costs. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS The post Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Risk Management Or Risky Management? appe...
Jun 07, 2010•26 min
Jacqueline Marcell entertains us with her story about caring for her aging parents. Jacqueline went from one or two phone calls per week to check up on her parents to a 24/7 living Hell with her parents! This happened in a few short weeks. Both parents were eventually diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. She wrote the book, Elder Rage, How to Survive Caring for Aging Parents. Just how good is your memory? Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS The post Adventures In Healthcare Reform – E...
May 31, 2010•42 min
Albert Stark, a trial attorney in New Jersey, talks about his career providing representation to people with brain and spinal cord injuries or burns. His book, Insider Secrets to Winning Your Personal Injury Battle: A Seasoned Trial Lawyer Reveals All, tells the story of seriously injured people as they navigate the legal system and what happens when the case is over. Starks tells his opinions about healthcare reform, tort reform and budget cuts. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Andro...
May 24, 2010•36 min
