When oncologist and cancer researcher Harvey Preisler was diagnosed with lymphoma in 1998, he wanted one person to oversee his care. “I trust only your judgment,” Dr. Preisler told his wife, Dr. Azra Raza, an oncologist. Despite her hesitations, from that moment on Raza became the point person for her husband’s care.
A health care algorithm makes black patients substantially less likely than their white counterparts to receive important medical treatment. The major flaw affects millions of patients, and was just revealed in research published this week in the journal Science.
Too little attention is paid to documentation, coding, and billing in many medical practices. For patients, documentation simply means that your doctor is providing an account of your visit in your medical record. However, documentation and coding can affect revenue, quality of care, and possibly expose clinicians to legal consequences.
Former President Jimmy Carter has been released from a Georgia hospital following a fall that resulted in a pelvic fracture, the Carter Center said in a statement Thursday. "Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has been released from Phoebe Sumter Medical Center," stated a tweet from the Carter Center, the 39th president's namesake human rights advocacy organization.
As a Brit, there are many things about the U.S. I’m only too willing to get behind. Pizzas the diameter of a trampoline, for instance, and the fact you’re never more than a few sweaty footsteps away from air-conditioning. Equally, there are some things I struggle with.
Imagine a health-care system in which doctors and nurses are so exhausted and beaten down that many of them work like zombies — error-prone, apathetic toward patients and at times trying to blunt their own pain with alcohol or even suicide attempts.