An excerpt from The Mumbo Jumbo Fix: A Survival Guide to Effective Doctor-Patient-Nurse Communication. Team building is a popular health trend. It promotes cooperation, trust and respect, improves communication and improves patient outcomes. Most of the time. But the camaraderie and familiarity of working with the same group of people can lead to an unappreciated …
Related practices and jurisdictions Sunday, December 11, 2022 Effective December 12, 2022, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is updating the USCIS Policy Manual to allow USCIS to automatically extend the validity of permanent resident cards ( commonly referred to as green cards) for lawful permanent residents who have applied for naturalization. This update …
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(NerdWallet) – When you’re laid off, you won’t be in the clearest frame of mind to take care of your financial life. It can be difficult to do much at first, says Pamela Capalad, a New York-based certified financial planner. “But you have to take care of the financial issues.” To protect your finances, consider …
Insurance Committee Co-Chair Rep. Kerry Wood (D-Rocky Hill) joins NBC Connecticut’s Mike Hydeck with his plans to deal with rising health care costs when the new session begins in January. Mike Hydeck: Here in Connecticut right now we’re dealing with runaway inflation, the threat of a possible recession, and chances are, if your health insurance …
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Image source: Getty Images It’s a really scary thing. Key points Drug costs can be high even with insurance. Skipping medication doses to save costs could have serious consequences. The cost of medications can vary greatly depending on different factors. These include whether or not you have insurance and whether you are taking a generic …
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HYANNIS — A former cardiologist and medical director at Cape Cod Hospital has filed a lawsuit against Cape Cod Healthcare, alleging he was fired after speaking out about the hospital’s allegedly unethical practices that favored benefit to patient care. Dr. Richard Zelman, 64, has been an affiliated cardiologist and interventional surgeon with Cape Cod Hospital …
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BAODING, China, Dec 11 (Reuters) – When Li tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday in Baoding, northern China, he prepared for a five-day quarantine at a local makeshift hospital in the under the country’s strict pandemic controls. Instead, China the next day abruptly relaxed the policy that made the world’s most populous country an outlier …
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(Refiles to fix ‘disrupting’ typographical error, paragraph 8) By Ella Cao and Ryan Woo BAODING, China, Dec 11 (Reuters) – When Li tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday in Baoding, northern China, he prepared for a five-day quarantine at a local makeshift hospital in the under the country’s strict pandemic controls. Instead, China the next …
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One of the important goals of universal health coverage is to ensure reach and coverage of the most marginalized population. However, the NFHS-5 results paint a different picture for India, where insurance coverage is lowest among households with the lowest wealth quintile. Also, coverage among minorities such as Muslims and Sikhs is lower than Hindus …
