Sensible Medicine

MARCH 27, 2024

Pages 119 through 125 do a great job of explaining how atherosclerosis develops insidiously in the coronary arteries and how you can build up substantial plaque without symptoms. The 2018 American guidelines recommend an LDL-C level <100 mg/dl for primary prevention. I keep my own apoB and LDL-C levels in the 40s. Medicine 2.0

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 7, 2024

For example, Bergman reports a 2002 study in which ventilated premature babies were placed to sleep on either their tummies or backs, and the following states were measured: quiet sleep, active sleep (which is less restorative than quiet sleep), crying time, number of stress responses (startle, tremor, and twitch), and oxygen saturation.

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Setting Sights

AUGUST 11, 2021

But, my colleagues’ wellbeing isn’t hanging in the balance just because of the taboo that comes with opening up on their mental health struggles, or that there is little time to address it on top of the day-to-day work pressures – it’s hanging in the balance because we are simply not supported full-stop. I called for help in person.

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

With mammography or PSA screening, the follow-up testing for the many false positives ranges from incredibly painful to dangerous. ” Identifying an abnormally high CAC score in a middle-aged individual should be immediately followed by an in-depth discussion of its meaning with an enlightened physician.

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The Healthcare Blog

APRIL 2, 2024

United channeled almost $52 billion of that cash into buying health-related businesses, nearly all of which end up housed inside Optum. However, Optum Health’s profit margin declined from more than 10% in 2018 to about 6.6% It is a sprawling nationwide roll-up of healthcare assets. billion since 2019. Optum Health is a $95.3

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Walker Info - Patient Experience

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Often overlooked, coming up with a good list of customers can be a painstaking task. Hear from one of the authors The CX Leader Podcast #Frankensurvey Released: June 12, 2018 How did we do? How do we stack up? Wrap it up. Following up on these can go a long way to enhancing a customer relationship.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

This data would not go to waste and patients had a forum to act on their own desires to carefully document and share their experiences for the benefit of themselves and others. Following a review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), the government mandated that iCarbonX divest its ownership in PLM.

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Accepted Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In 2017, she was appointed Assistant Dean of Admissions at the Boston University School of Medicine and became Associate Dean in 2018. We can look up stuff. If it’s just facts, we can look them up. But I would assume that the scores on the step two should go up. We break up into teams of four or five.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

While customer satisfaction with health insurance plans slightly increased between 2018 and 2019, patient satisfaction with hospitals fell in all three settings where care is delivered — inpatient, outpatient, and the emergency room, according to the 2018-2019 ACSI Finance, Insurance and Health Care Report.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2018

This is not the first time I’ve mashed up popular culture into a post on health care here on Health Populi. The story, The Shadow Rulers of the VA , broke the evening of 7 August 2018 in ProPublica. The column was researched and written up by reporter Isaac Arnsdorf. David Shulkin, then head of the Veterans Administration.

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The Healthcare Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

By MIKE MAGEE In our world where up is down, and black is white, there is a left and a right – it’s the middle we appear to be missing. Brett Kavanaugh, was nominated by Donald Trump and confirmed by the Senate on July 31, 2018. Does it exist, or was it make believe all along? Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

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