Tag Archives: medical care

23 Dec

Get Ready for 2014: Protect Your Healthcare with These Steps

carypresant Affordable Care Act, Doctors, Health Insurance, Prevention 0 0

2014 will make big changes in how we get our healthcare. These changes are not only in our insurance, but also in our doctors, our hospitals, and our medications. How will you succeed health-wise in 2014?

To help give you some tips, check out my recent blog on the Huffington Post http://huff.to/19JxecW and you will have emote confidence in the coming year. Beware of not doing your homework now. You could be looking at gaps in…

17 Dec

Make Insurance Choices Easier

carypresant Affordable Care Act, Doctors, Health Insurance, Healthcare Reform 0 0

Choosing the right insurance cn be daunting. so many choices are out there! And the exchanges seem to make the process more complicated, at least for the next 3 months.

So I have posted a blog as a contributor to the Huffington Post http://huff.to/1bTQjtB. Read the post and get the help you need to choose wisely! 2014 will be a good year for health, but you are more in control and have more expected…

02 Dec

Sleep Apnea – Do You Have It?

carypresant Medical Tips, sleep apnea, surgical complications 0 0

In the United States, there is an epidemic of obstructive sleep apnea (also called sleep apnea or OSA). OSA is common in the United States. 25% of men and 10% of women have sleep apnea. This is important because it is complicated by an increased rate of death from abnormal heart rhythms, as well as low oxygen levels that can produce cardiac and brain side effects. Also, importantly, patients who have sleep apnea have fatigue…

25 Nov

Which Health Insurance Should You Choose?

carypresant Affordable Care Act, Health Insurance, Healthcare Reform, Medical Tips 2 0

Choosing the right health insurance has always been confusing. But this perplexing dilemma has become more difficult for 2014 because Obamacare is being implemented. So which insurance is best for you?

I have reviewed the various types of policies in my book “Surviving American Medicine”. But now let me give you my best advice on which policy you should choose.

If you are eligible for Medicare and can afford it, choose the Medicare option with…

07 Oct

How Does Having Medicaid Insurance Help Patients?

carypresant Health Insurance, Healthcare Reform 0 0

One of the major types of insurance available to patients with low incomes is Medicaid. Access to Medicaid is being expanded through the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare). The question is, how does Medicaid insurance really help people?

The answer is in part provided by an excellent article by K. Baicker and co-authors (New England Journal of Medicine 2013, Volume 368, Page 173) and an accompanying editorial by R. Kronick and A. Bindman (New England Journal…

08 Jul

Diagnosing and Treating Fatigue

carypresant Fatigue, Health Care, Physician Communication 0 0

Fatigue is one of the most common symptoms in people. When fatigue is severe or constant, many doctors do not spend enough time trying to diagnose and treat the problem, leading to poor quality of life in the person suffering from weakness and lack of energy.

Here are some tips for getting to the cause and treating this common condition:

Ask your doctor to do a complete workup looking for all causes Suggest your doctor…

10 Jun

Know What to Expect from Your Treatments

carypresant elderly patients, Health Care, Physician Communication 1 0

You can develop potentially serious health conditions or illnesses. Good doctors develop excellent treatment plans for their patients, and you may get lots of information about tests, treatments and drugs you may need. But there is a possible problem in how you understand what the doctors and nurses tell you. In an excellent study http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1204410 J. Weeks and coauthors evaluated over 1100 patients with serious diagnoses of cancer. Between 69% and 81% of the patients…

29 Apr

Do You Want to Email Your Physician?

carypresant Electronic Medical Records, Physician Communication 0 0

The ease of using email communications is increasing the efficiency of many businesses, and our social lives as well. Many patients are emailing their physicians and the doctors are sending back answers.

But new regulations implementing 2 of our laws, HIPAA and HITECH privacy statutes, have now been finalized by the Department of Health and Human Services in January 2013.

These new rules indicate that it is a violation of the law for a physician…

11 Jan

Hillary’s Blood Clot: a Lesson for You

carypresant Prevention 0 0

Hillary Clinton had a blood clot in her leg in 1998. Recently, she developed an unusual blood clot outside of her brain, and she is again on anticoagulants (blood thinners). Because she has now had two blood clots, Hillary should be evaluated for a possible hypercoagulable state, a genetic tendency towards recurrent blood clots.

Many patients get blood clots and they can be life-threatening. Because of this, knowing if…

08 Jan

The Risks of Being Overweight vs. Obese

carypresant Obesity 5 0

We live in a society obsessed with weight, body image, food and physical appearance. There is a consistent battle of “fat vs. skinny” that our culture fights with every day – both sides having negative and positive aspects. Being overweight has been long recognized as an adverse health risk, as having a higher body mass has been linked to a higher risk of heart disease, earlier death and some forms of cancer, while being skinny,…

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