Emergency room doctors have increasingly found themselves in a bind. A patient presents with potentially serious symptoms and the doctor recommends admission to the hospital for
You may have read or heard about a recent European study calling into question whether colonoscopies were useful in preventing deaths by screening for –
Medicare Advantage plans are private options for Medicare eligible Americans. The Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services pay per diagnosis, so in effect they pay
Emergency department staff at Kitsap County’s lone hospital recently called 911 for urgent help to put out a fire. The “fire”, though, was overwhelmed staff
Modern medicine has developed screening as a tool to hopefully catch and treat various cancers at an early stage. This includes prostate cancer, breast cancer,
In late 2018, a private medical group called Optum bought a controlling interest in The Polyclinic. The latter was a 100-year old Seattle group of
We see it more and more – patients have to fail multiple therapies before they may finally begin the one actually recommended by their physician.
A recent poll Associated Press poll found that the majority of Americans give our health care system a failing grade. This includes flaws in the
