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Emergency Rooms: Ground Zero for Health Care

Emergency Rooms: Ground Zero for Health Care

I don’t know if you’ve had the pleasure (or misfortune) to visit an emergency room lately, but if the ER visit is a litmus test on the current state of the US healthcare system, we are badly failing as a society. Let me relay our most recent experience with a local health system provider – whose name I will withhold, but if you live anywhere near me, you’ll know exactly what organization I’m talking about. My mother was involved in…

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Have You Been to the Doctor Lately? Good Luck!

Have You Been to the Doctor Lately? Good Luck!

I’d like to think that I’m a pretty healthy person.  I try to watch what I eat, get plenty of sleep, work on getting some steps in – you know the routine.  I’m turning 54 this year, so it’s a stark realization that I’m looking forward to fewer days ahead of me than have passed behind me (unless I follow in the footsteps of my great-grandmother – who lived to be 111), so I have to pay more attention to…

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