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.
January 29, 2010
Neale Cady | I have a problem when I see all the TV ads for medicine that you can not buy with out a prescription from your Dr. I have heard the drug companies spend upwards of 5 BILLION dollars a year on TV ads. Wouldn't that money be better used in research and lowering the cost of drugs. The ads say to ask your Dr. If I didn't trust my Dr. to know what was available and what was best for me, I'd find a new Dr. I'm not sure, but I think this is the only product advertised on TV that you can't just go out and buy. more >>> |
January 27, 2010
Karla Salazar | Read remarks from tonight's State of the Union:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/01/27/state-union-state-health-reform more >>> |
January 26, 2010
Karla Salazar | Are there any BJC-sponsored weight loss programs? It could be at any of the hospitals. Please send links to any information.
Thanks more >>> |
| I would like to advocate a health care system which:
1)Keeps the treating physician accountable for the appropriateness, effectiveness, and cost of care.
2)Provides a primary care model such that one physician is responsible for the coordination of all specialist care, diagnostic studies, and address drug interaction and compliance.
3)Addresses the issue of medication, and other treatment modalities, compliance with specific approaches for dealing with lack of compliance.
4)Actively address common issues of public health, such as smo... more >>> |
| I am hopeful that you have addressed the following areas:
1)Given multiple studies showing medication compliance rates of 50% have you included a methodology for tracking compliance? This area results in massive waste of costs for unused medications as well as diminished quality of care.
2)I hope that you have required a justification for polypharmacy often utilized in psychiatry, especially as it results in enormous costs, increase in complexity and non compliance, and increased adverse effects of medication.
3)Have you provided incen... more >>> |
January 25, 2010
Karla Salazar | In today's world filled with technology, I am being reminded daily of the different tools available to me to make it easier to keep up with my own health. For example, Google Health is available in which you can fill out your own information and let others securely access it. I still haven't tried it out, but I'm curious to hear from others that use it how it's helped them out???
Or if there are other tools that you know about please let me know. Being a mother of 5, I think something like this would be great to keep up with all of my ... more >>> |
January 21, 2010
james christeck | It appears that the balance of power between the Democrats and the Republicans has changed with the election of Scott Brown. This means that Healthcare will be back to "square one" on the Grand Stage of Politics. To me this would be the ideal time for the Hospitals of America to band together with a United Front and a United Proposal. Let the tail wag the dog, rather than the dog wag his tail in a manner of speaking. My proposal would be for the Government to pick up the un-paid portion of every Hospitals Emergency Room bills and if care is ... more >>> |
January 19, 2010
Emily Carter | Great article worth re-posting here on MMB.org
from @BarnesJewish on Twitter:
Could staring into space and drowsiness be signs of Alzheimer's? Maybe, according to our Dr. James Galvin. http://tinyurl.com/y8qsjtf more >>> |
January 14, 2010
Bret Berigan | Dr. Ravi Uppaluri, surgial nurse Linda Zilch, along with the entire surgical team at Barnes-Jewish Hospital's Center for Advanced medicine and Karen Wheat from his office are all excellent examples of BJC 'making medicine better.' Dr. Uppaluri, from the Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine, and his team performed surgery on me last week to remove a malignant melanoma tumor from the top of my head and 4 lymph nodes from my neck. Thanks to his advanced surgical skills and know-how I exp... more >>> |
January 12, 2010
Craig Stevens | Still amazed that in today's world I'm expected to wait PATIENTLY in my doctor's office for hours past my APPOINTMENT time without any kind of update or options. It really stinks. If I wanted to be treated like cattle I'd go to a vet. Where by the way I'd probably be treated better. more >>> |
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