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How To Protect Yourself From A Sleep Deprived Surgeon: An MD’s Thoughts On Being An Empowered Patient
Lissa Rankin, December 30, 2010
As an OB/GYN physician who took overnight call for 15 years before leaving the practice of medicine, the CNN article about the latest editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine, which discusses how sleep-deprived surgeons should consider disclosing their sleepy status, caught my attention. As a doctor hard at work on my current book, BROKEN: One Doctor’s Search For the Lost Heart of Medicine, which details the many fractures in our current health care system, this editorial taps right into one of my sincerest concerns about how broken our health care system truly is.
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How To Be An Empowered Patient
Lissa Rankin, August 9, 2010
Do you feel powerless at the doctor’s office? Do you wait for hours in waiting rooms, only to have 7 ½ minutes with a doctor who doesn’t answer your questions? Do you pay way too much for pharmaceuticals, receive letters from your insurance company refusing coverage, and wind up with unnecessary procedures you didn’t understand to begin with? Do you feel like you pay more and more for less and less care? If so, you’re like millions of others.
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