Family Centered Hospitals Recognize Family Differences

Many hospitals are offering the family centered approach to include patients and their families in the diagnosis and treatment that they receive. This allows patients and their families to take an active part in their medical care and treatment.

What Mothers are Finding Out about Paxil

What Mothers are Finding Out about Paxil

Disaster Medicine: A History

The medical response to disasters is becoming an increasingly complex and specialized branch of medicine. The new specialty of Disaster Medicine has roots dating back almost 2 centuries. Geoff Williams and Dr. Maurice explore the depth of these beginnings.

Americans Going Into Credit Card Debt To Pay Medical Bills

A new report finds that Americans are turning to credit cards in order to pay for their high medical bills whether or not they have healthcare or health insurance. The study shows that people dig themselves into a deeper financial hole when they turn to high interest credit cards to solve their healthcare problems.

An Overview of the Cox-2 Inhibitor Drug Controversy

In the Fall of 2004 it was learned that Cox-2 inhibitor drugs may cause some very serious side effects. What exactly are Cox-2 inhibitors, why were they developed and what are those side effects?

Warning-Treating Your Acid Reflux Symptoms May be Dangerous!

Reflux prescriptions make hip fractures far more likely according to recent research. This is because reducing acid also reduces the calcium we can absorb from food. Since calcium is also essential in reducing Reflux, heartburn, and GERD, it is predictable than long-term use of these drugs actually exacerbates reflux. Alternatives for reflux treatment are limited, but some do exist, especially, optimizing calcium intake.

Nursing And Computers: The Inevitable Move Towards Electronic Health Records (EHR)

Nursing and computers have not always been a perfect mix. Typically, nurses try to get away from new computer systems as much as possible. However, it is an inevitable workflow evolution in today's hospitals.

Continuous Integrated Triage

The concept of resource-based decision making would seem to be basic to the practice of medicine and especially emergency medicine and disaster medicine. Unfortunately the reality is that in the United States of America and, actually in most industrialized nations, medical care decisions are not resourced-based, they are emotionally-based. And this works in all but the most dire of circumstances.

Concern and Going to Doctors: Do They Help

The immediate thought that most of us have is that going to a doctor will reduce concern. However, this is of course often not true. Let us take a simple headache as an example. In the town in which I live, probably 100 people wake up each morning with a headache, and only1or 2 go to the doctor. They usually, but not always, turn out to be the most concerned out of the 100.

Consulting Skills: Can They Influence Locus of Control

The good thing about locus of control (see my article Different Types of Patients) as far as doctors are concerned is that it can be influenced. It is rather like political affiliation; most of us lean to the left or the right, but can be cajoled sometimes to vote the other way. Locus of control in most people is a tendency not a fixed aspect of their personality. A further point about external or internal beliefs about health matters is that we humans are not necessarily consistent. For example I may be at heart more or less a fatalist but I still buy big chunky cars believing them to be safer for my family and perhaps for me.

Cholesterol Drugs: Benefits And Risks

Cholesterol drugs are taken by approximately 12 million Americans. Experts believe that many more people should be seeking to bring cholesterol levels under control. More than 90 million American adults have elevated blood levels.

Affordable Health Care is Slipping Away

Affordable health care is one of the things that everyone all over the country wants. The cost of health care has sky rocketed in the past few decades. In the past, many of us rely on our employers to provide good, affordable health care. However, businesses are now cutting worker’s benefits to cut costs. Fortunately, it’s still possible to be adequately covered in case of a medical emergency.

Discount Canadian Drugs Online

Online Canadian drugstores are able to offer up to an 85% discount on more than 3000 brand names of medicines and generic drugs. Most drugs are similar to or the same as those manufactured in US. Canadian pharmacies provide a generic version of the same drug at a lesser price. Such drugs need not be considered to be of inferior quality on the basis of the low cost.