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Overseas Medical Tourism

2012-01-31T13:10:00.000-06:00

A McKinsey & Company report revealed that the core reasons for medical Tourism:

Best technology regardless of cost (est. 40%) This may include traditional or disallowed treatments ( IVF)(Stem Cell Therapy)

High quality and lower costs for medically necessary procedures/treatments (est. 30%) An uninsured or underinsured person may seek reasonable cost alternatives

Quick access to medical care (est. 15%) Specific treatments are not available in the home country, or there is a significant waiting list for an elective procedure

Lower costs for discretionary medical care

US Healthcare System Expensive, Uneven and inefficient:

2012-01-27T15:45:00.000-06:00

Americans Die earlier and receive less care than residents of other nations, they pay far more for healthcare per person-more than $8000 -than do citizens of any of the other countries.

One good thing about US System ,they delivers first class cancer care, with the world's highest survival rates for breast cancer though recently Japanese beating them with Cancer research and technology.

and American Doctors says they are not paid fairly for their work.

Salt Matters

2011-09-20T11:04:00.000-05:00

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Indian Dream or the American Dream!

2011-07-17T06:35:00.000-05:00

doesn't matter if you are an Indian or American its your global right to live and enjoy wherever you want on this planet. go and explore.

Gandhi

2010-11-06T06:21:00.000-05:00

President Obama described Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi as “a hero not just to India but to the world.”

“I am filled with hope and inspiration as I have the privilege to view this testament to Gandhi’s life. He is a hero not just to India but to the world,” Mr. Obama wrote in the visitor’s book at the Mani Bhavan here.

Gandhi, the President said, has inspired Americans and African Americans, including Martin Luther King.

Who should write medical news stories?

2010-09-14T21:52:00.000-05:00

http://www.blacktriangle.org/blog/?p=2111

An interesting paper in PLOS Medicine on media reporting of medical news. Wilson et al examined medical news stories written by specialist and non-specialist journalists in Australia from 2004–08. They found specialist health reporters produced higher quality articles than general reporters, and broad sheets performed better than tabloids. They suggest:

It does matter who writes news stories that cover the benefits and harms of health care interventions. Stories written by specialist health journalists were superior to those written by other groups. These data illustrate what can be achieved in terms of high-quality health news reporting, but this ideal is seldom reached. The analyses also underscore the importance of which outlets journalists work for. Traditional broadsheet newspapers scored highest and commercial human interest programs consistently returned the poorest scores. We presume that these differences reflect not only the professional skills of journalists, but also editorial policies, which dictate the target audience, the writing style (favouring human interest over evidence), the length of the article, and the extent to which it serves particular sectoral interests (e.g., a patient support group or identifiable victims of a disease). These findings are not surprising, but some of the differences were large and likely to translate into flawed information for consumers, with an adverse effect on health literacy.

They also note the commercial pressures the newspapers are under, and the threat that puts on specialist reporters. News gathering and reporting is an important job, and it is clear that newspapers are still struggling to find new models for revenue generation having already let their product out free on in the market. The Times is trying to reverse that situation with a paywall, but the jury is still out on whether they have the solution or have merely locked themselves out of the internet.

The important point is also made that investigators, funding bodies, research institutions, universities’ PR departments, and journals should bear responsibility for the stories and ensure that “balanced claims about the findings, their importance and implications” are provided to journalists. Currently, the drive for research to have an a public impact may have the unfortunate consequence of converting good science into bad reporting.

wondering how many officers feel like this

2010-08-09T09:58:00.000-05:00

2010-08-01T02:04:00.001-05:00

Cruelty become human's pride. For ages cruelty to children, to the elderly, to dogs, chickens, cats,pigs.

you say humans are so sweet?

2010-08-01T01:06:00.003-05:00

Cows are gentle giants, large in size but sweet in nature. In the U.S., more than 41 million of these sensitive animals suffer and die for the meat and dairy industries every year

Are you eating your pets?

2010-08-01T01:00:00.001-05:00

Chickens are inquisitive, interesting animals who are as intelligent as mammals like cats, dogs

here is your juice juice food

2010-08-01T00:53:00.002-05:00

Many people who know pigs compare them to dogs because they are friendly, loyal, and intelligent. can you eat your Dog?

The U.S. Border Patrol was created in 1924

2010-07-05T14:30:00.001-05:00

The U.S. Border Patrol was created in 1924 to help prevent illegal entry across the Mexican and Canadian borders. its funny in 2010 still we say secure the border????

1930-1964
During the Great Depression between 1929 and about 1939, there was enormous public outcry that Mexican immigrants were taking jobs unemployed Americans needed.

World War II again created a need for labor to fill jobs left by military personnel.

"By then, there are over a million Mexicans a year coming to the U.S. to work both illegally and legally,"

1965-today
The most recent wave of immigrants began in 1965, when Congress replaced a system of quotas based on country of origin. Since then, more than 100 million legal and illegal immigrants have entered the U.S., with the majority coming from Mexico in search of jobs.

1820-1879
The first major immigration wave since the U.S. became a nation started in the 1820s and lasted until a recession in the late 1870s. The wave brought about 7.5 million immigrants,
1880-1929
The second wave of immigration spanned the 1880s to the early 1920s. It brought more than 23 million immigrants.

Today is the day to remember

2010-03-23T15:03:00.002-05:00

what we can learn from other health care systems?

2009-11-07T23:53:00.002-06:00

*In Singapore, hospitals publish the cost of every treatment

*In Germany, people suffering from fatigue or back pain can get a three-week stay at a "wellness" retreat in the mountains – all paid for by health insurance.

*In Taiwan, people who go to the hospital swipe a card that gives doctors their basic medical information

*Germany's had a national healthcare system since 1883

*National health services save a heck of a lot of money and are much cheaper, like in Spain and Britain,"?????

*UK, Germany, France, New Zealand use sophisticated information systems?
While 99 percent of doctors in the Netherlands and 97 percent of doctors in New Zealand and Norway used electronic medical records (EMRs), only 46 percent of U.S. doctors reported EMR use.

*Americans take 10 percent fewer drugs than citizens in other countries — but pay 118 percent more per pill that they do take

*In France, the sicker you are, the more coverage you get. For people with one of 30 long-term and expensive illnesses — such as diabetes, mental illness and cancer — the government picks up 100 percent of their health care costs, including surgeries, therapies and drugs

*In 2005, U.S. spending came to $6,400 per person. In France, it was $3,300.

GOOD and BAD

2009-09-13T10:19:00.001-05:00

What’s WRONG with American health care:

•Too many Americans are uninsured
•Too much of our health care dollar is spent elsewhere, not on health care
•Congress is not paying fairly for Medicare and Medicaid
•Too much insurance profit, hassle and abuse
•Lawsuit abuse drives up health care costs

What’s GOOD with American health care:

•Doctors work for you, the patient
•You, the patient, have a choice of doctors and hospitals
•Highest quality in the world
•Innovation and cures save and extend lives
•It’s not a government run system where you wait and wait

source:texmed

who wants to know your friends and states of mind?

2009-08-19T06:50:00.003-05:00

mobile phone records accurately forecast real-world friends. It also found that people’s recollections of how they use their phones differs significantly from reality

the study concluded that 95 percent of friendships between participants could be accurately deduced from the data.

"It's invisible to the user but logs everything: communication, users' locations, people's proximity by doing continuous Bluetooth scans."

"We can give them some real insight with the idea of helping them build a better city that reflects people's actual behaviour."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8205940.stm

http://www.mobilemarketingnews.co.uk/US_Mobile_Phone_Data_Finds_Friends_28184258281.html

singer is guy or girl? very impressive!

2009-08-17T19:13:00.000-05:00

Tradition of America is true?????

2009-06-22T07:35:00.001-05:00

If you fix the immigration then indirectly you are fixing Healthcare because, number of illegal immigrants using services and who have no means to pay that leads economic growth and financial flow sluggish. We are spending more on health care than any other nation but no quality and cost of healthcare for all not affordable.
65: Percentage of voters who believe that every American should have access to quality Healthcare
80: Percentage who oppose providing healthcare for illegal immigrants
Just in Texas, estimates illegal immigrants cost hospitals more than $1.3 billion a year.
No one can fix the economy without fixing immigration and healthcare together.
If tradition of America is true, then all immigrants can be justifying by the law.

10 things you didn't know about...................

2009-05-25T15:24:00.000-05:00

"10 things you didn't know about orgasm," will have you scratching your, um, head, breshing teeth.

chill out christians! Pres. Obama's Notre Dame speach

2009-05-17T14:53:00.003-05:00

Full text of Pres Obama's speech at Notre Dame commencement.

So let's work together to reduce the number of women seeking abortions by reducing unintended pregnancies, and making adoption more available, and providing care and support for women who do carry their child to term. Let's honor the conscience of those who disagree with abortion, and draft a sensible conscience clause, and make sure that all of our health care policies are grounded in clear ethics and sound science, as well as respect for the equality of women."

here is the full text.

France leads the world in health care

2009-05-17T11:52:00.001-05:00

Should Americans have access to health care like many other countries?
No? yes? Selfish Americans cant or have no right.
You know why?
Our health care system is still operating in the dark ages of paper records and handwritten scrawls
Excessive meritless lawsuits against neurosurgeons and ER physicians threaten access to emergency care:
As a result, some trauma centers must transfer Complex cases, are “downgraded” in the care they can pro-Vide, or are forced to close (June 14, 2004; American College of Emergency Physicians,)
One in seven obstetricians no longer delivers babies: because of fear of being sued, is driving America’s ob-gyns to stop delivering babies (American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Medical Liability Survey, July 19, 2004).
Meritless lawsuits cost everyone 125,000 lawsuits currently in the system: On any given day, this is a conservative estimate of the number of active
Lawsuits against physicians—a number almost twice as large as the number of medical students (AMA Analysis, Journal of the American Medical Association Medical Education edi-tion, 2005).
$70–$126 billion per year could be saved on defensive Medicine: This is an estimate of the savings that would
result from enacting reasonable medical liability reforms (“Addressing the New Health Care Crisis,” U.S).
“After 8 years we still talk about 9/11 and seeing two towers collapse and 3,000 productive lives lost, but two months after that, 3,000 more productive lives were lost because they didn’t have health insurance, still our administration and Congress does nothing about it.”

President Obama once said :
I think it should be a right for every American. … for my mother to die of cancer at the age of 53 and have to spend the last months of her life in the hospital room arguing with insurance companies because they’re saying that this may be a pre-existing condition and they don’t have to pay her treatment, there’s something fundamentally wrong about that.

The U.S. model combines private health insurance and publicly-funded programs and spends more on health care than any other nation worldwide. It ranks low in the overall quality of care, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Frances’ health system which relies on compulsory national insurance was ranked best in the world in 2000 by WHO. Britain relies on the world’s largest publicly funded system, was in 18thplace. The world leader America is 37th place.

Manmohan Singh impact

2009-05-16T21:09:00.002-05:00

Congress president Sonia Gandhi was quick to dispel any doubts about Dr. Manmohan Singh being the choice as the next Prime Minister. As soon as the extent of the Congress success became known, there was a clamour that Rahul Gandhi deserved to be Prime Minister. Before the trend caught on, it was firmly and unequivocably made clear that Dr. Singh remained the prime ministerial mascot

No more interest on weddings?

2009-05-15T07:36:00.002-05:00

Iceland’s population is 306,694 and 67% are age 15-64, seems Norwegian culture??? Where Unemployment is 1.6., so more freedom for women.

The number of infants born to unmarried women in the United States reached an historic peak in 2007, at 1,714,643.

Robot to create Facebook profile

2009-05-07T21:44:00.001-05:00

Facebook could soon be helping bridge the divide between humans and robots.

BBC link

stupid people with stupid laws

2009-05-07T20:56:00.001-05:00