Doctors

8 Things You Don’t Want to Happen to You in an American Hospital

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There are eight things that you must never let happen to you while you’re in hospital.  If they do, health insurers say they will no longer pay out. Tired of picking up the tab for the vast number of doctor and hospital errors that happen in American hospitals every year, health insurers have listed eight no payout errors. Around 2 million people get an infection every year while staying in an American hospital, and a further 100,000 will die as a result. The eight no payout errors relate to: air embolism blood incompatibility catheter-associated urinary tract infection decubitus ulcer (pressure sores) vascular catheter-associated infection surgical site infection mediastinitis (infection of the chest area) falls and trauma objects left in the body after surgery. But wait. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are planning on adding a further nine … Read more

Dental Fraud

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If you live in America you should be concerned about dental fraud. The only way to solve this is single payer health insurance. The bottom line: get a second opinion and question everything when seeing the dentist. The video below goes into more issues on dental fraud and what you should do to protect yourself.

Are Dentists out of Touch?

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Here is an article written by Joushua Bernstien and appeared in Dental Economics. At a recent dental meeting, a famous panel of dentists and consultants fielded questions about how to improve our practices. Leadership, teamwork, vision, communication, strategic planning, focus, and many other great buzz-word ideas were discussed. When the dust settled after the discussion, I realized that we are completely out of touch with our cosmetic dentistry patients. As we evolve and behave like business owners, we sometimes forget that the patients are still thinking the same old thing-they “hate the dentist!” While we are excited about various occlusion philosophies, new materials, and high technology, the patients are still “afraid of the shot!” While we are dinking around refining the perfect crown margin, the patients “hate the sound of the drill!” While we are concerned about diagnosis and treatment, … Read more

Visit To Michigan Head Pain and Neurological Institute

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I just was in Ann Arbor at the Michigan Head Pain and Neurological Institute. I saw Dr. Todd Rozen. For anyone who is suffering from a headache that won’t go away or is really interferring with your life I strongly recommend you go to MHNI.  While I was there, I recieved extension testing ranging from bloodwork to EEG and EKG. Dr Rozen showed me a possible nasal contact that was occuring in my nose. No one thus far out of all the doctors I have seen and have reviewed my films suggestede this. He recommened I try a diagnostic liodacaine test with an ear nose and throat doctor. Dr. Rozen was also concerned by my consistently high blood pressure and tremor that occurs in my upper body. He was concerned that possibly I came in contact with a heavy metal … Read more

Doctor Showing Me the Door

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So today I received a letter in the mail with a letter from the headache specialist I have been seeing in the area for over the past year. The letter explained how he no longer could continue to treat me after February. He listed many other doctors in the area as well a more known doctor, Todd Rozen, and Michigan Head and Neck Institute. I’m not quite sure why he decided to send the letter. Likely due to me not being as compliant as he would like and having negative side effects to nearly every  medication given. On another note, I recently received the book Acute and Chronic Headache : A Guide for the Primary Physician and the Headache Specialist written by James H. Francis, M.D. I just starting reading the book and it seems to have a lot of … Read more