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Important health tips for Dad

There are over 70 million fathers in the United States according to the latest available data.  With Father’s Day just around the corner, this is the perfect opportunity to talk to that special man in your life about taking care of his health.  We talk often on this site about how your health is your … Read more

Controlling your medical costs by changing your doctor

Think you’re pay too much for medical tests?  You’re probably right.  That’s the word from Michael Tetreault, Editor-in-Chief of Concierge Medicine Today, a news agency and trade journal that reports on Concierge Medicine ( a type of medical care practice in which the patient pays a set fee for all primary care services).  A recent … Read more

Doctor visits too short, too rushed

World News in Nursing Report ran an article about celebrating an increase in the average time doctors saw patients.  The increase was for 32 seconds longer.  That was in 2007.  The article was in response to consumer complaints that began at least as far back as 1995 that doctor visits were too short.  Even back … Read more

Controlling diabetes can save everyone money (even those who don't have it)

 
This blog has covered stories about Concierge doctors before (see storyhere), we’ve even posted a story by a Concierge doctor before (see story here) and of course Seattle Elder Law Attorney, Rajiv Nagaich often includes Dr. Mixon as a guest for client appreciation events, so I’m not unaware of boutique medicine or private practice medicine as they are called.  But a Forbes story talked about concierge medicine in a way I was completely unfamiliar with.  What interested me was that it wasn’t about doctors at all.  It was about a special group of community health care workers.

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Doctor communications: It's not an oxymoron

 
I once took a speech class in which my instructor frequently stood on his soap box about how the American educational system spent a great deal of time developing written communication skills, a lesser amount of time with verbal communication skills and no time whatsoever with listening skills. Since proper communication requires aspects of all three, it’s no wonder communication is ranked so high in priority but so low in performance.

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Is palliative care for you?

 
Most people are aware of hospice care and what it pertains to but a closely related medical specialty is relatively unknown.  Palliative care seeks to address the multiple ways that illness affects a person whether the effects are physical, financial, spiritual etc.  The focus is on treating the symptoms of the disease or the side effects of treatment so that the patient can remain comfortable. 

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