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World Renowned Heart Surgeon Speaks Out On What Really Causes Heart Disease

We physicians with all our training, knowledge and authority often acquire a rather large ego that tends to make it difficult to admit we are wrong. So, here it is. I freely admit to being wrong. As a heart surgeon with 25 years experience, having performed over 5,000 open-heart surgeries, today is my day to …

12 Things You Should Know Before Getting A Gel Manicure

6 Long Hairstyles For Women Over 50

Has your age been something that holds you back from styling your hair? Not anymore? Here are 6 fabulous long hairstyles for women over 50.

Canthal Tilt Surgery: Preventing Premature Dropping of the Canthi

Canthal tilt is a key factor in the aesthetics of the eye area. A positive angle is generally more desirable, giving the eyes a more youthful appearance.

Why your family medical history matters

Sara McGregor never worried about getting breast cancer. Neither did her two older sisters. After all, their mother and maternal grandmother never had the disease. So when McGregor's eldest sister was diagnosed at age 32, the news came as a shattering shock to all three siblings

10 Horrifying Things Doctors Don't Tell You

As a modern culture, we tend to put our faith wholeheartedly in doctors. They're the experts, and more often than not we take their advice without question

Drinking Coffee Linked With Increased Risk Of Ovarian Cancer

A new meta-analysis finds a correlation between coffee and increased instances of ovarian cancer.

Benchmark Medical Group Wants You to Feel Like I Feel For Free

If you have followed me at all you know this has been one heck of a year for me. I have transformed myself completely thanks to Benchmark Medical Group in Windsor. I have lost over 140 lbs and kept it off for over 7 months. The mental and physical transformation has been mind blowing.

Ask E. Jean: How Do I Prepare My Husband for My Plastic Surgery?

He's against me getting a nose job, and I'm afraid when I come home with stitches he'll look at me differently.

What A Marshmallow Says About Your Medical Group’s Future

A medical group can't aggregate capital for its future if it zeros out each year. The compensation plan must be revised.

The Doctor Will See You Sooner Now

ZocDoc’s new check-in service lets you fill out your paperwork before you get to the doctor’s office.

Before Plastic Surgery: What Needs to Get Checked

Structure and Compensation: The Genetic Defect In Medical Groups

It’s one thing to understand that playing to self-interest motivates. Harnessing that self-interest advances the business’ own interests. It’s altogether something else to create a medical group that operates as a collective or in a club-like structure. In that situation, the group members generally put their own interests ahead of the group’s interests. That all … Continue reading

Increasing patient volume by knowing your referring providers better

The healthcare industry defies traditional notions of supply and demand. There’s a lot of demand for quality healthcare services than there is to supply – more patient needs than there are doctors to serve. However, doctors ironically continue to worry about seeing more patients – perhaps, the type of patients with insurance plans that will suitably reimburse for their services.

Do Surgeons Swear When Operating?

Well, a study was actually carried out to see if surgeons are truly foul-mouthed or not and published their findings in the British Medical Journal in 1999.

Patients need to be the focus of integrated care

Integration within the NHS has historically been structural but from the patient's perspective it has lacked co-ordination, explains Mark Britnell

Why doctors are prescribing legal aid for patients in need

Though lawyers are often the last people doctors want to see involved in patient care, across the country, many medical systems have begun establishing special legal partnerships. Lawyers become allies for disadvantaged patients who need help navigating problems with landlords and insurers. Special correspondent Jackie Judd reports from Omaha, Nebraska.