Fresh medical graduates and being a life insurance sales person
The long wait for a houseman placing after graduating from medical school in Malaysia is now the new normal, there being thousands of graduates and the limited positions made available by the Government.
After spending 5 years in medical school (and in the case of private medical school, spending hundreds of thousands of ringgit in fees) being jobless is quite painful I can imagine.
We have fresh medical graduates seeking temporary jobs as a Barista, Grab driver etc.
Recently there was a query from a fresh medical graduate about whether becoming a life insurance agent would be affect her career and if indeed there was a co...
Source: Malaysian Medical Resources - July 5, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Editor Tags: - Ethics - Tips doctors Graduate Insurance Jobs Salesman Source Type: blogs
Cerner Agrees To Share Patient Medical Records With Life Insurance Industry Intermediary
Cerner has struck a deal in which it will let a life insurance industry data vendor access patient records. Under the terms of the deal, risk management and digital services vendor MIB will be able to offer life insurance industry players access to 54 million patient medical records, as well as 5,400 patient portals. The […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 30, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Anne Zieger Tags: Analytics/Big Data Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Cerner EHR Data Epic Health Data Sharing HIPAA Consent Life Insurance Data Life Insurance Underwriting Source Type: blogs
Could COVID-19 infection be responsible for your depressed mood or anxiety?
Doctors told you that your COVID-19 virus infection cleared months ago. However, even though you no longer struggle to breathe, and your oxygen levels have returned to normal, something doesn’t feel right. In addition to constant headaches, you find yourself struggling with seemingly easy tasks. The fatigue you experience makes moving from the bed to the kitchen feel like an accomplishment. But most troubling for you is a feeling of dread, a nervousness so severe you can feel your heart pounding. Constant worries now keep you from sleeping at night.
What are the mental health effects of COVID-19?
We are still learning ab...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 19, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Stephanie Collier, MD, MPH Tags: Behavioral Health Coronavirus and COVID-19 Mental Health Prevention Stress Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 1st 2021
This study may have important implications for preventing cell senescence and aging-induced tendinopathy, as well as for the selection of novel therapeutic targets of chronic tendon diseases.
Our results showed that the treatment of bleomycin, a DNA damaging agent, induced rat patellar TSC (PTSC) cellular senescence. The senescence was characterized by an increase in the senescence-associated β-galactosidase activity, as well as senescence-associated changes in cell morphology. On the other hand, rapamycin could extend lifespan in multiple species, including yeast, fruit flies, and mice, by decelerating DNA damage ...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 28, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Economic Research on Treating Aging to Extend Healthy Longevity
In one sense, there is an enormous wealth of research on the economics of longer lives. This is a byproduct of the operations of sizable pensions and life insurance industries, dependent as they are on successfully predicting future trends in life span. On the other hand, outside this somewhat narrow scope, most concerned with the gain of a tenth of a year here and the loss of a tenth of a year there, there is comparatively little economic work that is directly tied to the research and advocacy communities engaged in trying to treat aging and greatly lengthen healthy human lifespan. That will change as the longevity indust...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 24, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Of Interest Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 22nd 2021
In conclusion, long term LRIC could decrease blood pressure and ameliorate vascular remodeling via inflammation regulation.
The Damage of a Heart Attack Causes the Immune System to Overreact
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2021/02/the-damage-of-a-heart-attack-causes-the-immune-system-to-overreact/
Researchers here note a mechanism that causes T cells of the adaptive immune system to spur chronic inflammation and tissue damage following a heart attack. As the researchers note, not all inflammation is the same. Some is maladaptive, and this is particularly the case in older individuals. The aged immun...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 21, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Most Children Born this Century Will Live to be Centenarians if Present Trends in Longevity Continue
This article reviews some key strands of demographic research on past trends in human longevity and explores possible future trends in life expectancy at birth. Demographic data on age-specific mortality are used to estimate life expectancy, and validated data on exceptional life spans are used to study the maximum length of life. In the countries doing best each year, life expectancy started to increase around 1840 at a pace of almost 2.5 years per decade. This trend has continued until the present. Contrary to classical evolutionary theories of senescence and contrary to the predictions of many experts, the frontier of s...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 19, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
#Healthin2Point00, Episode 180 | Signify Health IPO, OneDrop-Bayer-SCOR Partnership, & more
On Health in 2 Point 00, this time we have Jess tell us about OneDrop, Bayer, and SCOR’s new partnership, creating a chronic condition-specific life insurance policy using OneDrop’s platform and SCOR’s risk predictive engine. On Episode 180, Jess asks me about Signify Health filing for IPO – a real IPO, not a SPAC one, Lumiata getting $14 million working on predictive analytics, and Neuroflow getting $20 miillion in a Series A led by Magellan. —Matthew Holt (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 26, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health in 2 Point 00 Health Tech Health Technology Jessica DaMassa Matthew Holt Source Type: blogs
Human API Raises $20M+ in Series C Funding To Scale Consumer-Controlled Health Data Ecosystem
Human API, the company empowering consumers to connect and share electronic health data with companies they trust, announced today that it has raised over $20 million in Series C funding. The round includes participation from Samsung Ventures, CNO Financial Group, Allianz Life Ventures, and Moneta VC, as well as from existing investors BlueRun Ventures, SCOR […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 29, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Allianz Life Ventures Andrei Pop BlueRun Ventures CNO Financial Group Guardian Life Insurance Company Human API Moneta VC Omada Health Paolo DeMartin Richard Dufty Samsung Ventures SCOR Life and He Source Type: blogs
Life Insurance: The Savings Solution for the Thai Elderly
Sivalap Sukpaiboonwat (Srinakharinwirot University), Life Insurance: The Savings Solution for the Thai Elderly, 2 (2) Asian Admin.& Manag. (2019): he main objective of this work is investigating life insurance is the alternative choice of savings for Thai elderly. The... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - August 30, 2020 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
4 Steps to Financial Independence
Most people want financial independence. Financial independence means that you do not have to rely on your day job to pay all your bills. You can take time off of work if you want to without worry about finances. Often, people assume that this means that you are looking to retire early, but that isn’t necessarily the case.
Many people choose to become financially dependent when they have no intention of retiring. A lot can come up in life. You never know what is going to happen next. What happens if you or a loved one has an illness that you need to take care of? Not only will you have medical bills to account for, bu...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - August 3, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: IndySummers Tags: career featured money and finance self-improvement budgeting financial independence self improvement Source Type: blogs
Three Things I Hope Health Care Won ’t Recover From
By RANDY CARPENTER
The loss of lives and livelihoods from COVID-19 are almost too much to comprehend. And yet, slowly, conversations are emerging about the positives percolating from the pandemic.
It’s human nature to want to look for the positives in even the worst of situations, and I’ve noticed that in both my personal and my professional circles of late, people are talking about the things they hope we don’t lose when things go back to “normal.”
Chief among them, especially in my healthcare technology circles, is a level of humanity that our previously faster-paced lives, ways and organizations...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 18, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Tech Source Type: blogs
We need to learn to accept death in the United States
Life may never be the same after COVID-19. With tens of thousands of Americans having succumbed to the coronavirus in the United States, some of us are considering our own mortality. Life insurance companies have plenty of new customers. Estate planning attorneys are busier than ever. Many of us are thinking about how our loved […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 15, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/james-a-quinn" rel="tag" > James A. Quinn, PA-C < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Hospital-Based Medicine Palliative Care Source Type: blogs
Wait, Other People Don ’ t Think about Suicide?
The most startling thing I’ve heard in my life is that not everyone thinks about suicide every day. Or now and then. Or even once in a long while.
Can that be?
I heard this from a co-worker a while ago. We were collaborating on a dreary project, and I joked about it being the kind of work that makes you want to kill yourself and what a relief that would be.
“I know, right?” I expected her to say. Instead, she chuckled uncomfortably, then asked if I really thought that way. When I said yes, she was taken aback and a little disbelieving.
“You never have?” I asked.
“Of course not!”
I was taken aback. And a littl...
Source: World of Psychology - April 28, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rich Pliskin Tags: Personal Suicide Depression Suicidal Thoughts Source Type: blogs
4 Ways to Overcome Anxiety and Learn to Love Your Doctor Visits
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Fear
keeps many people from going to the doctor — fear of the unknown, fear of a bad
diagnosis, fear of feeling vulnerable, etc. But for about 3% of the population,
going to the doctor is an actual phobia. Whatever the reason, fear of
physicians causes far too many people to take a reactive, hands-off approach to
maintaining their health.
Before I
had a major health scare, I was one of...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - April 14, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Munjal Shah Tags: featured health and fitness self confidence self-improvement courage fear fear of the doctor illness pickthebrain self improvement sickness Source Type: blogs
