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James Gandolfini’s Killer has powerful accomplices: Misinformation and the status quo
This is a guest blog from Dr. Robert Emerick, the Founder, President and Interventional Cardiologist at Choice Cardiovascular, a direct practice (also called concierge medicine or boutique medicine). Dr. Emerick’s website can be found at http://www.choicecardiovascular.com/.
James Gandolfini, well known to many of us as the likeable, yet brutal and sociopathic, family man, modern-day don of the HBO drama, The Sopranos, collapsed suddenly last Wednesday night in his Rome hotel bathroom.
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Is your doctor engaged in your health
Is your doctor engaged in your health?
Know your risks for heart disease
Low cost concierge medicine
Rajiv Nagaich talks about Concierge medicine a lot on his Saturday morning radio program. Mostly he talks about how people can be much more proactive about an individual’s health by hiring a doctor that isn’t controlled by insurance companies. Concierge doctors don’t wait until you have a heart attack or stroke before ordering tests. They’re available … Read more
Do you know your hospital’s safety score?
The Leapfrog group released its latest safety scorecard for 2,619 American hospitals and most have seen an improvement since the initial scorecard the group published in June. The group calculates the score using publicly available data about 11 outcome measures and 15 process measures including the frequency of blood line infections, falls, bedsores and consistency … Read more