HealthCare Whisperer: Recent Comments

Comment on Nursing Home: Hospital Discharge Planning Part 2

Stav — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:13:40 GMT

Visiting Nurse Service of New York’s blogger Jeffrey Jue posted a piece about discharge planning that can also be very helpful (http://blogs.vnsny.org/2010/06/16/how-to-take-the-stress-out-of-discharge-planning/) not just to patients but to their caregivers.

Comment on Know the Insurance Lingo

Illinois insurance courses — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:43:00 GMT

This is a great idea. People need to be get educated and learn the lingo. I guess i could add more to it when i have time.

Comment on Need Help: An undiagnosed neurological disease

HealthCare Whisperer — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:47:08 GMT

Thank you so much for the input. Will look into this possibility. Hari

Comment on Need Help: An undiagnosed neurological disease

Maija Haavisto — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:53:00 GMT

Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) is one possibility. I personally know some people (including a good friend) with a very similar presentation. I also wonder if it could be Lyme disease. It is notoriously difficult to reliably test for and could present like this.

Whatever it is, low dose naltrexone therapy could most likely help out. It is effective in most neurological illnesses. IVIG would also be worth a try.

Comment on Healthcare Navigation Tip#2: Insurance

Jason Gaya — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:02:29 GMT

It is practical and useful information but there is one other important point which the insurance buyer should ensure is that the Insurance company should follow HIPAA norms. This will protect his or her confidential health information from unauthorised access.

Jason Gaya
http://www.empowerbpo.com/blog/

Comment on Chronic Pain Client Part TWO

Lari — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:09:12 GMT

My website would help to remind people when their appointments, prescriptions, tests are due. This site helped me take care of my in-laws and reminded me when their medications were due. I am working with various organizations who are interested in my services. We are donating 15% of our sign ups to organizations listed on my site. Thanks Lauri

Comment on What happened to Lillian Wald's dream for the VNS?

JanetWise — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:49:42 GMT

I am dumbfounded by the amount of parameters and exclusions that have fallen upon our providers.

Comment on Healthcare Reform: The Insurance Stimulus Package

Marc Seltzer — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:06:02 GMT

I don't agree. The Senate health bill offers major comprehensive reform. I think it's silly to criticize it for it's missing rather than to applaud it for what it contains. Think about it. Universal coverage -- paid for by increasing fees on those who can afford it to pay for those who can't. Insurance companies and health care providers will need to be managed, but that was not really the point of reform, so much as to provide universal coverage. Costs management is built in with the tax on high cost plans, which is significant if not popular. Cutting costs is not going to be popular no matter where you do it. Imagine telling all those doctors and labs that they can only be reimbursed for care with is supported by medical evidence. Make a list of your priorities and compare them with the details in this bill. If anger at insurance companies is higher than universal coverage, we have a problem.

Comment on Nurse Practitioner VS AMA

NPs Save Lives — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:59:07 GMT

I also did not like the tone of the article toward NPs. I understand that we are not the same as a medical doctor and I don't pretend to be. I just want doctors to realize that we do just a good a job as they do in most cases. I think most doctors that have an issue with us have never really worked with us before.

Comment on Nurse Practitioners in Healthcare Reform

MARYEVE BASKERVILLE — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:07:39 GMT

I have found a number of articles which include salient and timely information which is not sifting down to the popular press. I am an NP in an underserved area in southwest Arkansas and there is not enough of me to go around. I am constantly reading, learning and applying new clinical expertise in my shared practiced with a semi-retired physician and believe me the morbidity and mortality in the community is low as a result. We see and do it all but the greatest need is teaching trust and partnership in health care among a population who are inundated with confusing information in the popular press and who try manage themselves accordingly without consulting a physcian who knows THEIR history and THEIR level of understanding. It is an art guys - let's remember to send folks for an EXAM. Can't be it and technology will never replace it. We do need all the help we can get though and guided education is the path to enlightenment and well being. can't underestimate the wisdom and value of LISTENING to folks explain their own rationale for behaving and doing as they do .... finances and tradition figure high in the mix for determining a course of action. We can work with them and accomodated dearly held beliefs or challenge them with EVIDENCE in terms they can understand. At any rate it takes a village - but somebody has to stop the buck.