Medicine practice in America: Problems

by William Altgeld

Reasons Why Our Health-care System Is Such A Mess! Here comes a car sputtering down the street, backfiring and spewing a trail of thick blue smoke. It doesn't take a second thought to know that it needs repaired. Do you...read more

by Vicki Stockard Phipps

Patience and the Medical World When you've been as patient a patient as you can be, and your patience has finally worn out. I hope a doctor is listening? The Physician: I don't mean to complain about those who've...read more

by The Reaper

Deception For The Greater Good? A Journal Entry The doctor-patient relationship is perhaps one of the most difficult relationships one can have with another person, especially when lives hang in the balance. When refl...read more

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by Ben Frayser

Bring back the opium dens! Pain has become one of the more studied phenomenon of human existence. And why shouldn't it be? It's certainly one of the more pressing matters in many people's lives. That's what the opium...read more

by Grits44

Preventative health measures are they making us sick? Preventative medicine While practicing preventative medicine, doctors make referrals to other doctors. Those doctors schedule tests. The hospitals do the test...read more

by Christine Briton-Jones

Fourteen years ago in Australia my friend was diagnosed with advanced multiple sclerosis. A distraught family member exclaimed, "We will fight this, no matter what the cost we will take her to the United States." In fourte...read more

by Shelley Mendias

I cannot talk for medical practices throughout the country, but for the past twelve years I have been a billing manager for orthopedic surgeons in the great garden state. New Jersey is my only point of reference. If it is...read more

by Stephanie King

Problems with Medicine: Why It's Not Working Medicine is not doing its job. By definition, medicine is "the science of diagnosing, treating, or preventing disease and other damage to the body or mind" (Dictionary.com). Th...read more

by Carol Wise

Most of us have grown up believing in and having great faith in our doctors. The profession has long been revered and with I suppose good reason. After all to become a doctor one must possess intelligence,as well as endure...read more

by Gwen Ochsenbein

The original article read: (July 14, 2007) "Got a headache?" That is what the emergency room nurse asked me very sarcastically, not even knowing why I was there. The mannerisms in the emergency room in today's so...read more

by Danielle Dzendzera

I am familiar with the hospital setting and see the vast improvement in the healthcare system. In the United States, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), sets standards for most hosp...read more

by Robert Taylor

Parents Think before Allowing Your Daughters to Get the HPV Vaccine By Robert N. Taylor Led by Texas (which has since reversed course) several states and the District of Columbia jumped on a questionable...read more

by Joe Christian

DR. JEREMY LEWIS OF NEWPORT! There was this physician that I saw in Newport who wrote me prescriptions and when I took them all in for a follow up visit, he put one of the little prescription bottles into his lab coat...read more