Congress waited until the 13th hour to delayed automatic cuts in Medicare reimbursements of 21% – at least until April. Such a drastic cut will force many physicians to drop Medicare to avoid operating at at loss and many may decide to anyway rather than wait for inevitable. How do you opt out? You would...
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No, not just Cheech and Chong. Laguna Woods Village retirement community now has a medical cannabis club even though the members are not allowed to grow it in their community garden plots. That would be like . . as if it were legal and we can’t have that.
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Statistically speaking, we are winning the vaccine wars . .
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It’s like driving with your eyes closed for five seconds or more. This is the equivalent to driving while texting (reading or writing). It’s twice as likely to cause a crash as driving while intoxicated but as of 2010, only 19 states had laws that prohibited texting while driving for ALL drivers (not just...
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So why aren't the Federal government or health insurance companies rushing to compensate and reward physicians who start using electronic medical records systems with e-prescribing ability?
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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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The wit and wisdom that is socialist medical care funding.
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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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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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Obviously vaccinations suffer from a battered public image these days. What is needed is a new advertising campaign.
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