In keeping with the latest health care trend, the annual physical is dead. Taking its place is the periodic health examination (PHE). What’s the difference?
Archive for May, 2009
Accompanying Your Child to the Doctor
Published by May 28th, 2009 in Children's Health and Working With Your Doctor. 1 Comment As a parent, you want to get the best medical care possible for your child, and you want your child’s experience getting medical care to be as pleasant as possible. You can do a lot to make going to the doctor a good thing. For children from toddler to teenager, the experience of going to the doctor begins at home. Talk about the upcoming visit at least a day in advance, if possible.
When You Talk With Your Child Before the Visit:
- Be open. No matter what their age, tell your children in advance when they are going to the doctor and why. –> They need to know what to expect. It helps even young children to know that a “shot” can protect them from getting sick or that a test will let the doctor know which medicine will make them well.
Hospital Emergency Departments -What You Need to Know Before You Go
Published by May 28th, 2009 in News. 0 Comments In 2005, the latest data from the Center for Disease Control, approximately one-fifth of the U.S. population had made one or more ED visits within the past 12 months. From 1996 through 2006 the number of hospitals EDs decreased from 4,019 to 3,833, thus added to the annual number of visits per ED.
So what are some of the things you can do? Continue reading ‘Hospital Emergency Departments -What You Need to Know Before You Go’
The cost of medications continues to skyrocket, so savvy consumers must use money-saving strategies.
It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but prices of prescription drugs have been escalating, adding to the already prohibitively high cost of health care. According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, prescription drug expenditures grew at double-digit rates during almost every year since 1980, accelerating to 14.1% in 1997. Senior citizens who depend on Medicare, which does not cover outpatient prescriptions, shell out the most. But even people whose health insurance pays for medications may find they have hefty co-payments or deductibles.
May 4, 2009 - Have Your Medical Records Become an American Export!
Published by May 3rd, 2009 in News Letters. 0 Comments 
