Electronic medical records not a cure-all

physical therapy pushed down by doctors?

By: geejp

most  doctors defer from referring patients for physical therapy for fear of losing patient revenue  to therapists. doctors continue to prescribe just medicines  on a long term period though they find out from investigations that biomechanical reasons are the reasons for the problem and physical therapy ...

about 1 month ago

The Waste In The Current Healthcare System

By: amalgam80

Obama may actually have been correct estimating the waste in the current medical system.   According to a new study released Monday, “The U.S. healthcare system is just as wasteful as President Barack Obama says it is, and proposed reforms could be paid for by fixing some of the most obvio

about 1 month ago

The Great Health Care Debate: An American Tragedy

By: rrrblaine

    The Great American Health Care Debate is an anxiety-producing reality for all Americans affected by its outcome - no matter which side you're on. We are bombarded equally by proponents of changing our Health Care system and the entrenched keepers of the status quo daily, with seemingly no end in sight. The two camps' adherents ...

about 1 month ago

Tommy Douglas and the Timeline of the Canadian Single Payer system.

By: northsunm32

 A type of single payer system was first introduced in Canada in Saskatchewan a western Canadian province in 1946 and simply covered hospitalisation. Saskatchewan at the time was mainly a rural farming province but it had elected a democratic socialist government the CCF (Co-operative Commonwealth Federation) led by Tommy Douglas. The CCF was ...

about 1 month ago