Archive for 'Doctors'
The War on Healthcare: Patients Who Hate Doctors
Posted on 19. Sep, 2011 by wisdom.
Dr. Maurice Bernstein on his Bioethics Discussion Blog has an interesting discussion going on about people who hate doctors and their reasons. Reading through the large number of responses located at http://bioethicsdiscussion.blogspot.com/2005/06/i-hate-doctors.html , a common theme emerges: those who are well educated and particularly those with a PhD really hate those with an MD degree. [...]
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Dumb Americans Trust Their Doctors for No Valid Reason
Posted on 13. Sep, 2011 by wisdom.
Gawker has written an article titled “Stupid Americans Trust Doctors” written by Parenne and published on June 17, 2009, located over at http://gawker.com/5294409/stupid-americans-trust-doctors in which it says: “ Doctors are lazy and greedy and do not care about you. But Americans do not know this! Because of the TV, they think doctors would come up with a good national [...]
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Find Free Dental Care
Posted on 30. Aug, 2011 by wisdom.
I wanted to let anyone who might be interested in free dental care that recently 1dental.com put together a tool that allows one to enter their zip code to search for free dental care providers in their area. This tool is available at http://www.1dental.com/provider/. It allows different specialties to be searched for as well such [...]
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ADA Breaking Down Barriers to Oral Health for All Americans: Repairing the Tattered Safety Net
Posted on 15. Aug, 2011 by wisdom.
On August 12, 2011, the American Dental Association (ADA) released the second paper in their series of papers on access to oral health. The paper is available for download from the ADA at http://www.ada.org/sections/advocacy/pdfs/breaking-down-barriers.pdf The first paper released on February 22, 2011, was titled Breaking Down Barriers to Oral Health for All Americans: The Role [...]
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Health Care Costs in America
Posted on 27. Jun, 2011 by wisdom.
I came across a very interesting graphic illustrating many of the myths and facts about healthcare in the United States. This graphic is from http://www.medicalbillingandcoding.org/medicals-costs-2/ The graphic illustrates some reasons for the high costs of healthcare including the myths and the truths. The myths include 1) americans smoke and drink too much, 2) america has [...]














































