Health Policy

There are Older Stoners

March 4, 2010
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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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Winning the Vaccine Wars

March 2, 2010
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Statistically speaking, we are winning the vaccine wars . .
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DWT vs DWI

February 27, 2010
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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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Electronic Prescribing Reduces Health Costs!

February 26, 2010
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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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Electronic Prescriptions are . . Legible, Reduce Errors!

February 25, 2010
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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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The NHS Spends Millions on Placebos!?

February 22, 2010
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The wit and wisdom that is socialist medical care funding.
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e-Prescribing is Here!

February 17, 2010
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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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Is Cocaine Really That Harmful?

February 9, 2010
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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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Vaccines: Victims of Poor Marketing

February 5, 2010
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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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Abstinence-only Education Works After Religion is Taken Out

February 2, 2010
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Abstinence-only sex education has never been shown to work well. What if they just threw out all of that "no sex until marriage" stuff and instead, focused on the hazards of teenage sexual activity?
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