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.
| 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 >>> |
September 22, 2009
Steve Kutheis | Sometimes big improvements can be made in reducing health problems by making the right decisions. Take smoking in public places, for instance. Two recent studies suggest that communities that pass laws to curb secondhand smoke get a big payoff -- a drop in heart attacks. It seems so simple -- ban smoking in all public places (yes, even in bars, restaurants, casinos) and you have less heart attacks. Yet this topic continues to be a hotly contested and emotional debate in many cities. You can read the article on CNN.com http://www.cnn... more >>> |
September 10, 2009
Cary Bynum | Why can't a hospital ask you a set of questions one time and be done instead of having 3 different people ask for your insurance more >>> |
September 20, 2009
Richard Durham | What exactlty is healthcare reform? I have no clue. I think a great idea would be making a simple, easy to read guide to healthcare reform for average Joe's like me who need the cliff notes version. more >>> |
September 10, 2009
Steven Lipstein | BJC is all about making medicine better for its patients. We take the best of medicine from all over the world and bring it back here to the midwestern United States - and make it better for the people who live here. more >>> |
September 17, 2009
the kid | similar to some car insurers- has anyone thought to develop an incentive based health insurance. One that would pay back premiums if not used- Premise is similar to car insurance, and that if you are a careful driver with no incidents, that portions of your premiums are returned. THis way folks that only go for routine preventative care check-ups and live and maintain healthy lifestyles, then they should receive a reimbursement on their "investment" more >>> |
April 14, 2010
Claude Evans | A group in our Congress and Senate of the USA needs to say yes more often to the peoples business. This includes extended unemployment benefits, Cobra payment supplements, and the other necessities provided by our government that can effect the economic and psychological well being of individual Americans who are patients or soon to become. You, we, need to ask Congress and the Senate to Say Yes More Often..
Some in the Congress and Senate have given themselves a name that will stay for awhile. "The Party of NO" name will hurt them be... more >>> |
September 18, 2009
David Kelly | I feel the first thing that needs to be done to help control health cost is to stop sleazy lawyers from filing billions of dollars worth of lawsuits against doctors, hospitals, and drug companies. They are the reason that health cost have sored in the first place. We live in a country that allows these scum sucking ambulance chasers to file a lawsuit at the drop of a hat. This means that the insurance companies that provide malpratice insurance for doctors, hospitals and drug companies are going to charge more to cover their loses. Like wise... 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 >>> |
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 >>> |
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 >>> |
September 11, 2009
Kim Gladstone | Could Lean Sigma and KT tools be applied to Health Care Reform? Signed, Tired of talking in circles... more >>> |
September 24, 2009
Kris Lagreca | I think we need to embrace alternative healthcare practitioners and options. Not all of them, but modalities that focus on a) maintaining health, and that b) take the whole person into consideration. I think some of these modalities, in coordination with your regular health care practitioner, can offer long term benefits that ultimately lower health care costs. What would happen if your insurance company *required* you to see a nutritionist, a naturopath, and guided meditation practitioner at regular intervals? The combined result of ... 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 13, 2009
Susan Gamble | Last week I came to Barnes(Queeny Tower location)for a flu shot . I want to publicly thank and commend all who organized and participated in the thoughtful and efficient organization of the process and administration of the flu shots. Although many people were there for the shots, I was in and out in under 10 minutes and off to work. I recommended it to many others as a quick and painless way to obtain this important preventive measure. Susan Gamble 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 >>> |
April 06, 2010
Dawn Jones | ER wait time has been a problem for years. I would hate to see how our ER system would handle an epidemic or mass casualty when you wait for hours for an X-ray currently. I wish that the hospitals would hire a few PAs and NPs, put in 20 mini exam rooms and crank through the sore throat, ear ache, pregnancy test nonsense. Then, I wouldn't have had to have the guy sitting next to me with chest pain fall over dead in the ER. (By the way, that really happened.) more >>> |
| I think that some people fail to see the real impact that taxation on non-profit organizations can have.
I am referring to the article: http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/9F3DB4701FB3A495862576FE000A93D1?OpenDocument
Non-profits are as such because there are no shareholders making profit from the operations of the organization. Non-profits exist as a way to continually grow the services of the organization, and provide those services to the community. To impose or increase taxes on non-profi... more >>> |
April 20, 2010
Joseph Finnigan | This campaign is a sham, but if BJC really wants to make medicine better it should start in-house by doing something about all of the morbidly overweight nurses and other so-called healthcare professionals who populate almost every floor and department of Barnes. Set the example for others, then you can use your pulpit to advise others on how to live healthy, productive lives. more >>> |
| Help Us Make It Stop!! Approved for children!! Costing us Billions!
Fluoroquinolones are currently one of the most commonly prescribed classes of antibiotics being prescribed millions of times each year. They are used to treat many types of infections such as respiratory infections, urinary tract infections, and sinus infections. Like all medications this class of antibiotics has side effects. However, what differentiates this class of antibiotics from others is that fluoroquinolones have the ability to cause severe and permanent disa... more >>> |
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