The comment below from a vendor is interesting, as he comments on the fact that a physician can make an extra $125,000 in 5 years, well some family care practice doctors today in California would like to just be making that in one year, as all the recent contracts with insurance companies are getting...
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on 10-01-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, EMR, Hospital, Medicine, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Common User Interface, Charity, CMS, Linux, Donations, bankruptcies
Modern Healthcare.com has also published an article about the status of affairs of many hospitals. To read further, click here to review the series I began last month called “ Desperate Hospitals” in where there are several updates and additional hospitals included. Also included is some...
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on 09-23-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Charity, Budgets, Insolvency, bankruptcy, Economics, Chapter 11, Desperate Hospitals
This was a post from a few months ago, but in light of the recent Stand Up for Cancer broadcast I thought it was a good idea to run this through again. 60 Minutes does a very good job in showing what private research can do, since grants from the government are harder to receive and with budgets...
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on 09-07-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, Genomics, healthcare, Budget Cuts, Charity, Research and Development, Medical Research, Fund raising
You can set up a log in and donate today. Click here for details. As I had posted in a story a couple days ago, the bar has risen for venture capitalist investments, it is still there, but perhaps a little tougher to get, and with government cuts on grants and availability for research,...
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on 08-30-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Biotech, Cancer, Research, Charity, Stand up to Cancer, Donation, Entertainment, Donation Drive, Cancer Cures
I had a couple friends drag me away from the computer and the blog today to watch a taping of a new talk show series starting this fall. So why is this here on a medical blog, well Bonnie Hunt was an oncology nurse before moving in to the entertainment business. What she learned as a nurse...
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on 08-27-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Hospital, Oncology, Charity, Nursing, Talk Show, Celebrities, Nurse, Extra Extra, Chicago
The numbers on charity care speak for themselves. In California there’s something similar going on too with hospitals being closed, perhaps not to the same tune as what is happening in New Jersey. Some hospitals have been saved by being purchased by a company like Prime Healthcare...