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Health in Reach Merges With PriceDoc for Nationwide Discount Health Services

by Admin 05.15.2012

You all know I mentor at Rock Health, the San Francisco-based accelerator for health care startups. I am very impressed with the energy and passion with which the startups there address the broken health care industry. So it is with total conflict of interest , but also a lot of pride, that I announce the [...]

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45 Medical Tests You May Not Need

by Admin 04.09.2012

This is too important not to share. I’ve been reading the newspaper articles about it, but here’s the ABIM Foundation’s original list. What do you think? Nine United States specialty societies representing 374,000 physicians developed lists of “Five Things Physicians and Patients Should Question” in recognition of the importance of physician and patient conversations to [...]

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Lexapro, Xanax, Anxiety or A Good Therapist

by Admin 02.20.2012

About  twenty years ago, when my physician husband was diagnosed with cancer, he made an important decision for both of us. He self-prescribed antidepressants, relatively new at the time, for both of us. I don’t remember why, but he gave me the Zoloft, and himself Prozac. He said they would help us have  an easier [...]

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Hospitals Mining Data for Privately Insured Patients

by Admin 02.10.2012

Every once in a while I find that America’s acclaimed free market health care system (it’s a joke, folks, just a joke) has hit a new bottom. Today I found a piece in Health Business Blog that asked Are you commercially insured with cancer, heart disease or an orthopedic problem? If so, you are a [...]

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