Share your ideas
There's a million ways to make medicine better and we want to hear them all. From the political arena of health care reform, to the personal world of what you want and need medicine to be, Share Your Ideas is where you talk and we listen. So, if you have an idea, a question, or advice on what the world of medicine needs to do in order to be better, please share it. And check back often to see if it becomes reality.
December 10, 2009
james christeck | ON THE GREAT CIRCLE OF LIFE, WE ARE ALL ON A LEARNING CURVE. more >>> |
December 07, 2009
Edward Rpttz | To "make medicine better" the physician should want to see patients quicker in your Emergency Departments. I was at your Christian Hospital Emergency Department with my mother in a room for over 6 hours last month waiting to see the doctor and they never entered the room. The nursing staff was great even the Director stopped in to apologize to me telling me about himself but your doctors are the worst and your hospitals will never get better with them. more >>> |
December 04, 2009
Mike Capizzi | In a brutally honest perspective, hospitals are hotels, are they not? Without sufficient volume (% capacity), they sink. Therefore, I can understand a marketing campaign focusing on how to make medicine better; great, innovation is a key staple - part of being American. However, research shows that upwards of 60% of health care costs fall in the area of "potentially avoidable complications." Much of this waste falls within the hospital setting; for reference, visit www.prometheus.org Shouldn't more dollars, efforts and focus b... more >>> |
December 02, 2009
Nancy LeMaster | We have studied the issue of plastic versus reusable cloth bags and use the plastic bags primarily for safety reasons followed by cost considerations. Linen bags must be liquid proof and able to contain blood and body fluids. Cloth bags that are sturdy enough to meet this requirement are very hard to wash and ensure all traces of blood and fluids have been removed. The cost of the plastic bags is $.12 and we use 1.5 million per year. When you consider the cost of purchasing, replacing and washing cloth bags the cost per use is $.34 and would... more >>> |
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