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.
February 22, 2010
Craig Stevens | anybody ever heard of a medical home? I think it has something to do with your primary care doctor, but I don't know what it is other than more pie in the sky talk. Does anybody out there have a medical home...and does it really matter? more >>> |
February 22, 2010
Craig Stevens | 86% of folks polled now think Congress is broken...which means the other 14% must be in a coma. more >>> |
February 14, 2010
Craig Stevens | Robotic assisted surgery for prostate cancer was supposed to be a life saving or at least a quality-of-life saving advance. Now we're hearing it might not be. This type of back and forth argument among people who are supposed to know is frustrating and scary. Yet it seems it happens all the time...at our expense. I mean we're even debating mammograms these days. It really is frustrating and absolutely affects lives. I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO HEAR REAL PEOPLE'S THOUGHTS ON THIS. Especially if you've had an experience with it. By the way... more >>> |
February 11, 2010
Brett Pohlman | With Apple’s announcement of the iPad, I can’t help but think of the impact it could have on the medical industry. I can imagine the medical industry changing and becoming almost completely paperless. This is, of course, hypothetical until the iPad can undergo testing in a real-world medical environment.
There are many articles about what the iPad is missing, but Apple always has a trick up its sleeve. It would take an iPad running a Mac operating system (OS) rather than an iPhone OS for the iPad to work in the medical field. ... more >>> |
| I've been having trouble with chronic headaches and have been told by numerous people (including my primary) that I need to see a chiropractor. The problem is, our BJC employee insurance doesn't cover this. What is reccomended? What have others done when they need adjustments and chiropractic care? more >>> |