One nice benefit is that you can transfer images right onto a thumb drive via high-speed USB ports. A 2 minute ultra sound devices stands to save lives and has a number of accessories that can be used with the unit. Just a few days ago I did a short post with pictures on some...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-08-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Los Angeles, Historical Buildings, Hosptials, LAC+USC Medical Center, USC Medical School, Keck School of Medicine of USC, LA General Hospital
This is just such a massive improvement to open soon, and going from night to day it deserved some pictures and recognition. Half a million out patients per year are seen here. The opening has been delayed a couple times but it appears it is now on around the first of next month. The...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-04-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Los Angeles, Historical Buildings, Hosptials, LAC+USC Medical Center, USC Medical School, Keck School of Medicine of USC, LA General Hospital
Desperate hospitals taking desperate measures, with none of this being legal and lead a couple arrests with more to come. Empty beds cost hospitals money, so was this an attempt to fill the beds or fill some pockets. Over 50% of the hospitals in the US border on insolvency. ...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 08-06-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, medicare, Hospitals, Medicaid, Los Angeles, Fraud, Homeless
New video that appears in the Los Angeles Times sent to the paper anonymously relating back to last year at the now closed Martin Luther King Medical Center. In light of what happened this week in New York, it brings back the similar event of last year. How complacent does it become...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 07-03-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Hospital, healthcare, Los Angeles, Martin Luther King Medical Center, Surveillance