Price shopping for surgery
We all price shop for things. If the gas station across the street is five cents cheaper per gallon, we might go there. If one brand of milk is cheaper than the other, we will probably grab the cheaper one. Some of us coupon clip and research prices online.We also all have some splurges. Maybe its hand bags, maybe its shoes, maybe its chocolate. These are the items that we purchase regardless of the price. Maybe its that Coach bag or the Manolo Blahnik shoes that we want no matter what. We just blindly get what we want.So where should our surgery shopping go? If you think about it, most of us have been treating surgery in ...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - May 17, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: shopping surgery health insurance medical costs Source Type: blogs
Charlie’s on the Mend We Hope…
Charlie was experiencing incredibly severe abdominal pain this morning. They rushed him to the hospital and performed an emergency appendectomy. I just got back from the hospital with my mother and he seems in good spirits. You know? That’s the first time in my whole life that that I’ve ever seen Charlie lying down and not busily up doing something. I am just wholeheartedly glad it wasn’t something more serious. Laugh With Me and Not at Me… I had a little touch of mental illness going on yesterday. To me it is glaringly obvious in my writings in retrospect.. I certainly don’t wa...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - February 25, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs
Why good IVF doctors do only IVF ( and nothing else)
IVF is a highly specialized branch of OB/GYN . IVF specialists all over the world stick to their core competence of providing IVF treatment , because it takes them many years of training and expertise in order to specialize in this particular field . They need to continue honing their skills , and the best way to do this is to do just one thing , and do it extremely well. While this is true in the Western world, it’s amazing that in India most clinics doing IVF are run by general gynecologists , who will continue to do general OB and GYN, along with doing IVF. For most of these doctors, IVF seems to be a part time servic...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - February 6, 2013 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Tags: Gynaecology Health In vitro fertilisation India Reproductive Health patient Infertility Physician Source Type: blogs
Single Port Appy?
Conclusions: SPLA failed to show any advantages over CLA relative to
pain and cosmesis. However, SPLA is as safe as CLA (Source: Buckeye Surgeon)
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - February 3, 2013 Category: Surgeons Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD Source Type: blogs
Interview: Phillip Hornbostle,MD Bariatric Surgeon
This is the first in a series of interviews I plan on publishing. Dr Phillip M. Hornbostel, M.D., FACS, FASMBS is an accomplished bariatric surgeon in Missouri who has performed thousands of weight loss procedures over the years. He is also the resident dean of the commentariat at the physician-only social media website Sermo. The following represents a series of email exchanges he and I had over the holidays:
Dr Hornbostel, tell me about your professional journey from general surgeon to an exclusively bariatric practice.
I finished general surgery residency in 1984 and immediately wen...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - January 22, 2013 Category: Surgeons Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD Source Type: blogs
Why is IVF documentation so poor in India ?
I see lots of patients who have failed IVF cycles in other clinics . What breaks my heart is the poor quality of medical documentation they have with them . They are very poorly informed , and don't know the dose of injections used for super ovulation ; what the size of their follicles were ; how many eggs were retrieved; or what the quality of their embryos was. This is very disheartening and disappointing for multiple reasons at multiple levels. Firstly, we can use this to revise and tweak the IVF treatment protocol , so that the patient has a better outcome for their next IVF cycle . If you don't have all this val...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - January 8, 2013 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Tags: Clinic Health In vitro fertilisation India ivf patient Embryo Infertility Source Type: blogs
Tincture of time
No one chooses emergency medicine for continuity of care. It's undoubtedly rewarding for most doctors to help manage patients through growth or disease, but the emergency physician doesn't get the chance to appreciate a patient's development over time.Until now.Electronic health records at my institution now give us over 9 years of continuity. Even when I'm just meeting a patient for the first time, I can look back and see their first visit to the pediatric ED for asthma, the appendectomy from a few years ago, the gastritis visit during college break that may or may not have been related to alcohol.For older patients, I ca...
Source: Blogborygmi - December 31, 2012 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Nick Genes Source Type: blogs
