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.
July 14, 2010
Lawrence Emke | I don't know if BJC has any protocal for cleaning computer equipment.
I just read an article ("http://www.smartplanet.com/technology/blog/rethinking-healthcare/the-fight-against-hospital-infection-hits-your-pc/1403/") about the need to consider how PC equipment
may contribute to spreading of disease in a hospital. As the article
noted the use of PC equipment will increase with the coming of electronic
medial records.
Just I wanted to pass this on. more >>> |
June 29, 2010
Ian MacLeod | No matter what kind of help you have available for low-income, indigent, disabled or whomever, always - ALWAYS - someone falls through the cracks, slides between the bars, just plain doesn't fit any category - and does without. I've a friend I met as a Chronic Pain treatment advocate who is now dying. He (self-administered thru the City) insurance's medical manager believes anyone on long-term opiates is "junkie slime" and needs detox; nothing else. She's had relapsing polychondritis for 12 years, and until the Med Mgr forced her to try a fo... more >>> |
| First I think we should stop Doctors and Insurance companies from charging soooo much. They are getting very rich,....while we suffer!!! I thought they did what they did because they care about people. It is all about the money !!!! I thought I found a great place to go. I suffer from chronic pain. I found a clinic in Washington,Mo. that goes by your pay....She looked up my social security number and saw I was not working,.So it was only going to cost me $10.00. I was sooooo happy !!! Well of course it was to good to be true........I got a c... more >>> |
April 20, 2010
sharline zim | I would like to see a more normal way to give birth. There seems to be way to much intervention...monitors, IV's etc. . Use midwives for normal birth process and doctors for complications would seem to be a better way to give birth in America. Where I came from births were handled by midwives and doctors were only involved if needed. more >>> |
| Modern medicine is effective in taking care of people who are already afflicted with serious disease or trauma. Preventative and alternative medicine (such as acupuncture, massage therapy, chiropractic, oriental medicine, herbology, ayurvedic medicine, etc) are often effective to keep people stay not only healthy, but also improving the quality of their lives by boosting overall well-being in both mind and body.
We would like to see the new health care system to welcome and integrate preventative and alternative medicine practices and ... more >>> |
March 18, 2010
Steven Lipstein |
As I write this note, I am en route to Washington, D.C. I, along with eight colleagues from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the Catholic Healthcare Association (CHA) are meeting with President Obama at the White House this afternoon.
A Year Ago
It has been one full year since the United States Congress began its work on health care reform. At that time, in poll after poll, Americans cited the need for all citizens to have guaranteed access to affordable health insurance coverage, while maintaining in... more >>> |
March 16, 2010
Craig Stevens | and I think what we're going to be left with in the form of reform will stink even more. 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 >>> |
| 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 >>> |
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 >>> |
November 22, 2009
Jason Vander Weele | I'd urge everyone interested in health care reform to read the book "Nudge" by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein. The book outlines specific ways companies can improve health care outcomes for patients, and how small changes to the system can result in much better results. Sunstein is currently advising the Obama Administration on ways that the government can "nudge" people to make better choices in medicine. Here's a link to the book: http://www.nudges.org/ I just finished it this afternoon (after hearing a keynot... more >>> |
November 17, 2009
Patt Christie | I'm aghast at the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations that screening for breast cancer tumors should begin at 40, women between 50 and 74 should be screened every two years as opposed to annually, and women 75 and older can avoid the test altogether. Further, doctors should no longer teach women breast self-examination because it serves little benefit. http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/panel-s-mammogram-recommendations-spark-controversy-1.1593180. The potential for overtreatment is driving the new guidelines, says ... more >>> |
October 21, 2009
Steven Lipstein | As I read over many of the comments below, there is good discussion about how our health care system should think about providing health care for people who either do not have health insurance or who are otherwise unable to afford the cost of the health care services they need. I think it would help the conversation for everyone to appreciate that even when health care is provided free of charge to an individual in need, it still costs money to provide those services. Where does that money come from? It comes from you - the taxpayer, or i... more >>> |
October 13, 2009
james christeck | To me the best way to pay for most of the un-compensated Health Care provided in America is to have the Government pick up the tab for all the un-paid Emergency Room visits to our Nations Hospitals (all) If a patient needs some in-patient Service beyond that, have the Government issue a voucher for the Surgery needed. The System I've described would cover a huge portion of our annual losses (and all other Hospitals as well) Lastly I would like to see the Government itself develop "Super Clinics" in specific neighborhoods, counties ... more >>> |
October 13, 2009
Kelly Davis | Senate Panel Meets for Vote Amid Controversy Over Costs Janice Simmons, for HealthLeaders Media, October 13, 2009 The Senate Finance Committee will meet today to vote on its 10-year $829 billion reform package—with a wall of controversy facing it. After working with the committee for months on reform provisions, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) appeared to have reversed course Monday by criticizing the emerging plan in a report that said the legislation could ratchet up the cost of coverage. A report, prepared by Pricewate... more >>> |
| I've had many conversations with friends, family, and co-workers about health reform over the past few months, and found the question of whether hospitals ought to provide care to be pivotal. I've heard many arguments about why America ought not pass health reform, at the same time many of the people arguing against reform agree that hospitals ought to be required to provide care. If hospitals are required to provide care, it makes sense for the government to be involved in trying to help lower costs, and provide opportunity for the syst... more >>> |
October 06, 2009
Tiffany S | In addition to alternative healthcare choices, regardless of what changes, there needs to be tighter restrictions on the food industry. The food industry spends billions of dollars to find ways to keep their customers addicted and fat instead of finding ways to help keep us healthy. Does it not send up a red flag that daily items such as toothpaste and soda have the same ingredients as antifreeze? Why is is more expensive for me to cook a healthy meal for my family rather than going to a fastfood chain? Start researching what is pumped int... more >>> |
September 30, 2009
Eric Price | Why should we let the government try to "fix" health care? What else have they been able to fix? The auto industry? Oil? Education? Health care should step up and fix itself. more >>> |
September 22, 2009
Shelly Bates | As usual, people are willing to believe whatever they hear on the evening news and since the media says healthcare in this country is bad, people believe them without any numbers or data supporting it. The truth is that by law every person in the country has access to necessary medical treatment and the US has the best healthcare in the world. What would be nice would be for the hospitals to stand up and show how government involvement that already exists is affecting services and costs. There is nothing in the healthcare reform that actu... more >>> |
September 21, 2009
Dana Travis | I'm amazed daily at how advanced we are in technology. So much of what we do in our social and professional lives is communicated in real time. We spend tons of money on new gadgets, games and intuitive technology. But in healthcare, we are incredibly behind in our ability to gather, track and communication health information in a meaningful way. Physicians treat their patients in a silo. With medications and without accurate knowledge of what the patient or another specialist/physician might be treating their patient for. My physicians n... more >>> |
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