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Fred gives examples of what’s wrong in our current healthcare crazy quilt, patchwork of healthcare purveyors, providers, and the patients who are on the receiving end. Bariatric surgical banding is recommended at lower body mass weights by (guess who) the bariatric surgeons. The FDA must decide, but higher costs won’t factor into it. Also bad news from urology, cancer care, … Read more about this episode...

Fred talks about Atul Gawande. best selling author of books on healthcare, the latest of which is The Checklist Manifesto. Gawande states that 40 % of the US population doesn’t receive healthcare and the US is closing in on spending 20% of its entire economy on health care. Other topics:health insurance premiums have surged 41 % from 2003 to 2009, … Read more about this episode...

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Focused more than ever on the need to improve healthcare and healthcare reform, Fred talks about the need to keep the current law and strengthen it to get lower costs, create a true high performance health care system, and a consistently high quality system of care. For example, a recent article published in Health Affairs estimates that 100 million emergency … Read more about this episode...

Fred talks about the good, the bad, and the ugly in current health care debate. Teed off by all the misinformation, threats, and ignorance up on display nationally in the recent elections, he tells how the good of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) or the health care reform law requires insurers to provide many preventive services at … Read more about this episode...

Health care providers have wasted billions of dollars in buying health care software, computer systems, consulting contracts, and most don’t have a complete electronic medical record, Chris Couie tells us why and how that effects your health insurance costs. His book, The IT Handbook for Business, tells how to manage information technology costs. EMR (Electronic Medical Records) are the … Read more about this episode...

Dr. David Sussman, Orthopedic Surgeon, talks about the health and legal considerations for those involved in auto accidents in an entertaining and enlightening way. The dangers of disability compensation lead some victims into a disability focused life rather than to full recovery. Health care reform so far doesn’t address any of the policy and practical issues in this fickle and … Read more about this episode...

Jan Janzen, author of Breast Health Exposed, talks about what every woman must know about her breasts. Jan says that healthy breasts don’t get cancer. Jan is a speaker, educator and entrepreneur whose mission is to eradicate breast cancer. She talks about the five myths about breast health and the ten secrets that your doctor will never tell you about … Read more about this episode...

Fred Malphurs talks about the miscellaneous factoids that reveal a compelling story about his three categories of factoids: 1. No one is actually in charge, 2. It’s not that the right hand knoweth no what the left is doing. Its an octopus and none of the tentacles know what any of the other tentacles are doing., 3. Where is the … Read more about this episode...

Jacqueline Klosek, attorney and author, talks about how people can protect their privacy and security while taking control of their medical information. She tells us about the risks and advantages of personal health records. Health privacy is put at risk by social networking sites and possibly effects one’s relations with their employer. Her book, Why Healthcare Reform is Not Enough … Read more about this episode...

Tina Lipscomb, RN, tells us all about case management. Case managers, Registered Nurses or Social Workers, coordinate care for patients across the spectrum of healthcare, including acute, chronic, long term care, hospice, palliative care, home care, etc. Faced with a new and serious diagnosis, talk to a care manager. Want to support better quality and more affordable health care? Go … Read more about this episode...

Alan Smith, author of Unbreak Your Health: Your Map to the World of Complimentary & Alternative Therapies, talks about his own journey to better health. Told by Mayo Clinic specialists that there was nothing they could do for his pain, Alan refused to accept it and began his personal mission of healing himself and spreading the word about complimentary and … Read more about this episode...

Lorene Burkhart’s book, Sick of Doctors? is a prescription for patient empowerment. Lorene discusses what she has learned from her own patient/physician experiences and offers valuable resources for building your own personal health care record and wants you to record every visit and every test. She places appropriate concern about the patient/pysician encounter, especially what is being communicated!… Read more about this episode...

David Blender, an accredited hypnotherapist, talks about hypnosis and hypnotherapy. Clinical hypnosis is used to reduce anxiety, eliminate chronic pain, improve performance in competitive sports, increase confidence and creativity, reduce fear of dentistry or surgery, eliminate fears, control bad habits, improve job performance and memory, stop smoking, eliminate insomnia, hasten medical recovery and much more!… Read more about this episode...

Joni James Aldrich talks about lifelines to W-I-N against cancer. Joni’s book, The Saving of Gordon, tell the story of her husband’s battle against cancer, the mistakes made, the lessons learned and her resolve to provide others with the tools needed to have a fighting chance against cancer. 4,000 people in the US are given a diagnosis of cancer every … Read more about this episode...

Dr. Ira Williams is interviewed. Dr. Ira’s Book, Misdiagnosed: Why Current Health Care Change is Malpractice offers keen insights into the failures of regulation and control of the quality of health care. Dr. Ira thinks that the US health care system has been developed like a weed patch with no master plan. Agencies set up to improve our health care … Read more about this episode...

Vicki Kind talks about the caregiver’s path to compassionate decision making. The choices made should reflect the patient’s wishes for the kind of care and caring that they want for themselves when a high level of care is needed such as after a stroke or at the end of life. The caregiver’s experience is about making choices for their loved … Read more about this episode...

Landileigh Nelson, the Vice President of the diabetesresource.com talks about the benefits of the on-line, one stop shopping, information loaded website. The all encompassing resource offers a free newsletter. Nelson talks about her diabetic condition which requires $300 worth of drugs per month and how health care reform provides great assistance to diabetics through the removal of precondition denials and … Read more about this episode...

eCareDiary.com is a one stop shopping center designed to to make coordination of care and sharing of information easy for caregivers. John Mills and Susan Baida are the co-founders with their own experiences as caregivers that led them to create eCareDiary as a means to help caregivers simplify their own situations by providing the tools and information that the caregivers … Read more about this episode...

Christian Wilde discusses stem cell therapies and the ongoing FDA trials for catastrophic diseases like heart disease, heart failure, MS, diabetes,stroke, back injury and more. His books, Miracle Stem Cell Heart Repair and Hidden Causes of Heart Attack and Stroke are both highly acclaimed. Wilde also discusses tumeric, an over the counter dietary supplement scientically proven to minimize cancer.… Read more about this episode...