Immediate Care Clinic – No Longer Necessary?

Immediate Care Clinic – No Longer Necessary?

Patients seeking immediate care for medical conditions in San Francisco have many options during normal weekday hours. A�There are several immediate care clinics located throughout the city, and hospitals usually have what is equivalent to an immediate care clinic attached to their emergency department. A�Once patients determine what options are available they can further narrow down the choices according to proximity, wait times and, of course insurances accepted. A�

While ER’s tend to accept many insurance plans, a co-payment is usually required and will depend upon the individual policy. A�Waiting times in emergency …

Should I Refuse the ‘Swine Flu’ H1N1 Vaccine?

Should I Refuse the ‘Swine Flu’ H1N1 Vaccine?

Just yesterday, two nurses approached me and asked if my kids would be getting the H1N1 vaccine. These ladies are medical professionals. Both worked many years as intensive care unit nurses. They believed in and practiced modern medicine. Why did they have hesitancy about the vaccine for their kids?

The H1N1 virus has created two illnesses. The first disease is the viral illness, which typically causes fever, headache, cough and fatigue. The second illness is fear. Initially, there was so much press hype, that many of us feared that H1N1 would roll …

Emergency Medicine Jobs Save Lives

Emergency Medicine Jobs Save Lives

There are emergency medicine jobs available around the country all the time, as openings arise in big cities and in small rural hospitals. Trauma can happen anywhere and at any time, and doctors that fill these positions have to be ready to assess and move into action at a moment’s notice.

The role of an emergency room doctor is a difficult one, especially when patient’s lives are held in their hands. Many times, these physicians are the first people who fight trauma and tragedy. They need to be able to work under extreme stress and …

Explaining the Veterans Aid & Attendance Pension Benefit

How The Government Can Help With Your Home Care Costs
With the rising costs of assisted living and home health care, it’s extremely difficult for many of our elders to receive the care they need. It also places an unusual burden on the spouses of the elderly or other caregivers, but if the senior is a veteran, there may be help.
What many don’t know is that if your elder is an honorably discharged veteran who is over 65, he or she may be eligible for the VA’s benefit program.
Unknown to many, the Veterans Administration offers Aid & Attendance …

HPV Treatment With Homeopathy

HPV Treatment With Homeopathy

For over 200 years individuals have sought homeopathic treatment of genital warts or human papilloma virus (HPV). In recent times, effects of HPV in women, such as cervical dysplasia or precancerous lesions, are monitored by pap test screening, offering early intervention and preventing more serious illness in women. Surgical treatments can save women from more serious cancerous conditions of the cervix.

The HPV vaccine in its early years has been shown to be a potentially dangerous vaccine, causing autoimmune, paralytic and neurological disorders, even death. Its effectiveness has not been proven to outweigh the risks of …

The Impact of Health Information Systems on System Management

The article focuses on the range of managerial implications and applications of health information systems. Consequently, the key concepts around which the discussion will revolve are health system governance, interoperability and healthcare strategy and evaluation.
As far as health systems governance is concerned, one has to first realize the importance of governance in general. Governance significantly contributes to economic growth, social advancement and overall development. In order to efficiently promote good governance of the health system, special attention must be paid to assessment. Improved performance of the health system and better outcomes are achieved through this important key determinant. The …

Patch Testing for Skin Allergies – The Skin Inflammation Test

Many of us are aware about the allergens that cause sneezing or irritation or any form of reaction. They may be dust, pollens, a scent or just about any object. Sometimes, these allergies may form a reaction on the skin, like blisters, rashes, redness or swelling and one needs to know what causes these inflammations. Patch testing is a kind of skin test for allergy to identify whether a particular substance coming in contact with the skin, can cause irritation or inflammation.
Patch testing – the allergen skin test – is also known as contact dermatitis and is categorized into …

Make the Most of Healthy Unsalted Nuts

Nuts are full of flavour and healthy nutrients. They are gluten free, and can help reduce the risks of many diseases. Tree nuts are especially good and as winter approaches, nuts come into their own.
Harvard School of Public Health published its study on nuts and heart disease in 1998 and their have been several reputable studies which seem to show that consumption of nuts reduces the risk of coronary diseases in both men and women. The USFDA (US Food and Drug Administration) said in 2003, “Scientific evidence suggests, but doesn’t prove that eating 1.5 ounces per day of most …

What To Know About Healthcare Management Careers

When we think of a career in health care, we think of the numerous positions that exist throughout the medical community. Health care careers conjure up visions of doctors, nurses, lab technicians, and others who provide patient care. We do not often thinks about healthcare management and what careers are available.
The important patient care that the health care industry provides would not be possible without the proper supervision and administration. It is not easy for people to think of health care facilities as a business, Wellness Calendar 2019 but it is. Without the managers and administrators working to ensure …

4 Things You Need to Know About First Aid Training

4 Things You Need to Know About First Aid Training

We all want to live in a safe world, away from bad news and casualties. However, life is not so smooth. Every now and then, we witness some accident, or someone in pain, and we wish we could have done something to relieve the person of the pain. Wishing for this, these days many people undergo a basic first aid training program, which enables you to perform first aid when the situation arises.

Many agencies offer short courses which certify you as a first aider. Here are 4 things you …

The Basics in Healthy Longevity

For centuries mankind has sought ways to not only increase the length of his life but to make the senior years healthy and more productive. In the book of Genesis, the first book of the Bible, we read of people living to be literally hundreds of years old, having children when they are well past 100 and doing heavy labour (Noah was 600 years old when he and his 3 sons built the ark) when they were several centuries old. Today if anyone lives to be a 100 they get special letters from the queen, president or prime minister of …

Health Care Planning

One of the foremost challenges faced by health care professionals is to formulate a well-devised, well-thought out plan for assisting both the patients as well as the health care givers. Care planning is an essential part of health care, but is often misunderstood or regarded as a waste of time. Without a specific document delineating the plan of care, important issues are likely to be neglected. Care planning provides a sort of ‘road map’, to guide all who are involved with the patient’s/resident’s care. The health care plan has long been associated with nursing; however, all health care professionals need …

What Women Need to Combat Menopause

Revive and Replenish
Ladies, if you have reached your fortieth birthday, there are a few things you should start thinking about now. You have been taking care of and nourishing everyone around you. If you have children you have also become a chauffeur, nurse, chef, janitor and much much more. If Paediatric Surgery you have also had a full time job on top of all that you are more than likely at the bottom of your things to take care of. Well that needs to change as you head toward menopause. The sooner you start to take care of yourself, …

Bad Credit Emergency Personal Loan Plan – 3 Steps

Bad Credit Emergency Personal Loan Plan – 3 Steps

What is a cash emergency? Well, the definition is different for everybody, as everyone’s situation is unique. However, the following situations would definitely qualify as a cash emergency in most people’s book:

you have an unexpected medical bill that must be paid – but you do not have the funds to pay it

unpaid utility and other recurring bills are piling up and you are trying to dig yourself out from underneath them

your car’s transmission suddenly blows out and you need to get it fixed so that you can get …

The Tools and Skills of Emergency Locksmiths

The Tools and Skills of Emergency Locksmiths

Sooner or later, everyone needs the help of an emergency locksmith. Locking yourself out of the house or your car due to forgetfulness, carelessness or through no fault of your own is embarrassing.

Emergency locksmiths specialize in opening a lock of a house, building, car or even a safe without damaging the lock or lock frame. They are equipped with the latest lock devices to open most any style of lock. Some tools of the trade will work around the lock itself as in the case of opening a car door lock.

Car …

Can You Survive If Disaster Strikes Your Home?

Can You Survive If Disaster Strikes Your Home?

You’ve watched the news reports of earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, and other disasters and perhaps you’ve thought what would I do if this happened to me. But, have you ever really thought about whether or not you can survive if disaster strikes your home? Believe it or not most people would be totally unprepared if the unexpected happened and disaster struck.

Of course, you are probably thinking that this kind of emergency could never happen to you but, think of the millions upon millions of people that have been struck by some national …

The Importance of Providing Temporary Power

The Importance of Providing Temporary Power

The words ‘temporary’ and ‘power’ probably won’t mean much to many people, they could get the term mixed up with ’emergency power’, but the chances are a great percentage of the general public either won’t know, or won’t care about temporary power. However, temporary power is something that affects us from day to day, and also helps us in ways that those outside the industry may not have ever considered.

Temporary power, as the name suggests, is a power source that is designed to be used for a short space of time, such as …

Vaccinating Our Pets – Helpful Or Harmful?

Vaccinating Our Pets – Helpful Or Harmful?

Each year people take their beloved pets to the veterinarian for the annual exam. This includes the physical examination, parasite check, and vaccination series. All of this is designed to protect the health and well-being of our pets, but is that what it does?

Vaccinations work by simulating a disease process. The animal is injected with a bacterial or viral agent, either a killed agent or live but modified to be safe. These vaccines stimulate the animals to produce antibodies against the disease so in the future, should the animals become exposed, the …

Vaccine for Alcoholics on the Horizon

Vaccine for Alcoholics on the Horizon

Scientists led by Juan Asenjo at Chile’s Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics have reported that they are working to develop a new vaccine for alcoholism that causes them to feel a hangover after just one drink.

The vaccine works by neutralizing alcohol dehydrogenase, an enzyme required to metabolize alcohol. Many Asians who lack this enzyme experience nausea, sweating, accelerated heartbeat, and hot flashes when drinking alcohol. Following vaccination, alcoholics who do have the enzyme should experience similar feelings with drinking; the goal is to discourage drinking and reduce alcohol consumption by up to 95%.…

Finding a Cure for Alzheimer’s Disease

One of several medical mysteries bogging the minds of scientists for ages is the crippling power of Alzheimer’s disease. Defined in Chamber’s 21st Century Dictionary as “an incurable disease, usually occurring in middle age or later, in which degeneration of the brain cells results in gradual loss in memory, confusion, etc. eventually leading to total disintegration of the personality; named after the German neurologist Alois Alzheimer (1865-1915) who first identified it”.
Never a fan of the term “incurable disease”, the scientific community is hoping to change the definition of Alzheimer’s disease by finding its cure by 2025, thanks to the …