Back Pain Prevention – Stretching and Strength
Back pain is the second most common reason for adults to visit their primary care physician. Over 31 million Americans experience back pain, and 50% of all working Americans will have symptoms of back pain at least once every year. Back problems are the single, greatest reason for adults to call in sick to work, [...]
Read MoreHealth Care Reform Promoting House Call Medicine?
Independence At Home While the health care reform debate continues to move through congress, it’s uncertain what changes may be in the bill’s future. However, many are hoping that one program, Independence at Home, remains a part of final product. Independence at Home is a program mandated by the health care reform law that supports [...]
Read MoreHealthy Foods For Aging Gracefully
Eating healthy and staying active are key ingredients to aging gracefully. While there are no magic diets or anti-aging recipes, there are things that you can do to improve your overall health and decrease inflammation within your muscles and joints. Physical activity will always be the greatest thing that you can do for your long-term [...]
Read MoreKeeping Diet Resolutions In 2011
Eating healthy and maintaining an active lifestyle are on everyone’s New Year’s Resolution list, but are they the same resolutions you made last year? Diet and exercise are the quintessential promises that individuals make to themselves year after year, and though they continue to make the same promises, they continue to set themselves up for [...]
Read MoreSignatureMD Minutes: Soap Opera
William Osler M.D., the father of modern medicine, said “Soap, water and common sense are the best disinfectants.” I wonder what Dr. Osler would say about a health care system that is in drastic need of disinfection? What would he think of a health care system that has abandoned common sense in favor of the [...]
Read MoreConcierge Medicine News – The President’s Physician Book Review
Concierge medicine is all about preventative healthcare, proactive medicine, and treating illness before it even becomes a problem. In our everyday lives this kind of care helps us to be more productive, more attentive to family needs, and much healthier. Getting sick just isn’t an option for us anymore, when work and family has to [...]
Read MoreScary Halloween Health Myths
Halloween is the perfect time of year for myths and tales. Even those who don’t like a good scare usually end up watching some scary classic or telling ghost stories by the fire. Halloween is a ‘dangerous’ time when cults gather, ghosts take form, and the crazies stalk the streets. It’s also scary this year [...]
Read MoreConcierge Medicine News – Primary Care Physicians Making Half Of Specialist’s Income
Are Specialists Making Too Much? Internal medicine is a tough market these days. Primary care physicians’ salary is far less than specialists, see far more patients, deal with far more red tape and paperwork, and are in the office for more hours, including many weekends. Could this be a reason why so many family physicians are [...]
Read MoreConcierge Medicine – Not Just For The Rich
Personalized Care For Everyone We kind of sound like a broken record each time that we say this, but concierge medicine isn’t just for the rich and famous anymore. Times have changed, and with the new focus on health and medicine due to health care reform, all Americans are taking a different look at their [...]
Read MoreThe VA Launches New Campaign Targeting Health Care
Concierge Medicine For Military Vets Our veterans deserve the best that we can give them, especially when it comes to their health and well being. Concierge medicine knows this, which is why many concierge doctors pay special attention to a returning vets mental state along with their physical health. Coming home is one thing, but [...]
Read MoreMcDonald’s Inadequate Health Care Coverage
“Obamacare To Blame?” [tweetmeme]McDonald’s has been making waves in the health care industry lately, and not for good reasons. When the press got a hold of story leaked about how McDonald’s will probably be dropping 30,000 workers from health insurance coverage, they tweaked the story so much so that it wasn’t about McDonald’s anymore but [...]
Read MoreThe Health Care Overhaul Alternative – Concierge Medicine
Concierge Medicine Is Not What It Use To Be…It’s Better [tweetmeme]There’s been a lot of talk about concierge medicine lately. With the health care overhaul beginning to take effect, many are wondering if concierge medicine is the answer to this mess we’ve gotten ourselves into. While premiums are rising and millions of uninsured patients are [...]
Read MoreHealth Care Reform – Opportunity or Detriment for Physicians?
Health Care Reform Opportunities [tweetmeme]I came across an interesting article today regarding the business opportunities that health care reform is opening up for physicians, particularly in the field of concierge medicine. It all has to do with that individual mandate and what patients are willing to spend. We start off with a comparison of how [...]
Read MoreRIM Playbook – Best Medical Apps For Concierge Physicians
New Playbook Has Concierge Phsycians Excited Concierge medicine is always one step ahead of the game in terms of preventative medicine, treatment options, and technology, so it’s no wonder concierge doctors have taken to the iPad like a moth to the flame. With all of the health and medical apps on the iPad, concierge doctors [...]
Read MoreDoes the Individual Mandate Step on Our Individual Liberties?
Built Upon Individual Liberties… [tweetmeme]America was built on some key ideas; mainly individual liberties, individual religious freedoms, and the right to pursue individual happiness. While we know that nothing is simple, nor black and white, these few basic principles were the foundation for our country. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men [...]
Read MoreBlue Cross Hit With $156 Million in Regulations
Blue Cross To Pay Out Millions [tweetmeme]In most cases, patients love to see this kind of thing. Whether you’re the patient of a concierge physician or not, every American has had a rough experience with big insurance companies and has lost money. It’s inevitable that if you have insurance to cover medical costs, you will [...]
Read MoreHealth Care Reform Faces Judgement
Health Care Reform Lawsuits [tweetmeme]Twenty states have brought legal arguments against the federal government and health care reform, and those arguments are about to make their way to trial. On Tuesday the 20 states will face a federal judge and plead their case, hoping to get the health care bill overturned. Family physicians, concierge doctors, [...]
Read MoreA New Look At Wasteful Spending And Health Care
Medical Spending Out Of Control [tweetmeme]In the world of concierge medicine, there isn’t a lot of room for wasteful spending. In order to offer the best possible health care, 24-7 services, and top-of-the-game technology, there rarely is a penny lost. And when you factor in the statistics that show the patients of concierge doctors are [...]
Read MoreA Concierge Doctor’s Ethics
Personal Ethics Of Concierge Medicine Concierge medicine and concierge doctors used to be a rare breed. Back in the 90’s when concierge medicine began in Seattle, it was looked upon as a way for the rich to get the VIP treatment. No one considered the concierge doctor’s perspectives or feelings about their own health and [...]
Read MoreConcierge Medicine – The Endless Ethics Debate
Does Tufts Have The Answer To The Endless Ethics Debate? Just a few days ago, the New York Times ran an article regarding concierge medicine, and since then the national focus has gone from Social Security and Medicare to concierge medicine and personalized care. When concierge medicine takes center stage, so does the debate on [...]
Read MoreMichael Douglas Fights Throat Cancer With Chemo
Michael Douglas Takes On New Role vs Throat Tumor There are many moments throughout your life when you will sit back and think, “why didn’t I do that when I had the chance.” When you’re worried about the onset of cancer, wondering if your primary care physician caught it in time, the idea of concierge [...]
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