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Electronic Prescriptions are . . Legible, Reduce Errors!

February 25, 2010
By RangelMD
Electronic Prescriptions are . . Legible, Reduce Errors!

Sending prescriptions electronically direct to the pharmacy has been proven to reduce errors from 42% to 6.6%! You would think that the Federal government would be rushing to massively fund such an initiative. But, you'd be wrong.
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Dr. Arafiles’ Alternative Legal and Medical Treatments

February 24, 2010
By RangelMD

His response to being reported to the Texas Medical Board is just as unique as some of his medical treatments.
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“Get Your S**t Together”

February 23, 2010
By RangelMD

Entitlement, excuse making, arrogance, and stupidity. These "qualities" on the rise in America have no social bounds.
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The NHS Spends Millions on Placebos!?

February 22, 2010
By RangelMD

The wit and wisdom that is socialist medical care funding.
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e-Prescribing is Here!

February 17, 2010
By RangelMD

I sent my first e-Prescriptions yesterday. I sent them to a local pharmacy using my trusty PracticeFusion EMR and it was very good. E-Prescribing is important as this not only partly automates medication prescribing but it also makes it much more efficient by incorporating this technology into an electronic medical record system thus allowing...
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The “Star Trek” Method of Hand Washing

February 15, 2010
By RangelMD
The “Star Trek” Method of Hand Washing

Sci-tech may finally replace soap and water.
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Vaccine Studies and Conspiracy Thinking

February 13, 2010
By RangelMD
Vaccine Studies and Conspiracy Thinking

The anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists cling tenaciously to a few studies of questionable quality and accuracy and serious credibility issues.
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Physician Politicians?

February 12, 2010
By RangelMD

Is the answer to corruption and runaway spending in Washington to elect more doctors to Congress?
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Source of Spirituality Found

February 10, 2010
By RangelMD

Obviously religion and spirituality are not the same thing (one can have a lot of one of these without much of the other). Prior studies have found that religious ideation involves diffuse brain cortical areas in the frontal and parietal lobes but feelings of spirituality appear to involve at least two much more focal...
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Is Cocaine Really That Harmful?

February 9, 2010
By RangelMD
Is Cocaine Really That Harmful?

In 1986, Maryland basketball player and NBA 2nd overall draft choice, Len Bias had a seizure and died from a single intranasal dose of cocaine. In 2010 one guy uses cocaine to "unwind" on the weekends and wonders if it really is that dangerous.
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