Concerned about the Healthcare you receive?

Why you should be concerned about the Healthcare you receive from your HMO, Insurance Company and Doctors. Protect yourself against unfair decisions by your insurance company or HMO, and bring fairness and responsibility to the healthcare industry. These unfair decisions frequently result in injury, death or non-payment of expensive medical bills.

The information has been released online as a means for the user to develop an understanding of the corruption, deceptive practices and just plain incompetence of some Physicians, Hospitals, Healthcare Maintenance Organizations (HMOs), and of the Medical Insurance Industry which have seriously endangered the quality of medical care that a great many Americans are supposed to receive.

Economic lessons for doctors?

Economic lessons for doctors?

Over the last six years I got involved in a business I thought was all about the medical world but it wasn’t! Isn’t it strange that the shift from treatment to prevention, from medication to nutritional supplementation goes mainly outside the doctor’s office? Now I know. Most doctors’ are not in the healthcare but in sickness treatment. They don’t have an education in nutrition and many simply don’t believe in the natural power. They still don’t receive any education about it, certainly not by the pharmaceutical companies, and also not by strict publicity rules, which won’t permit medical claims for nutrition.

Why?
Pharmaceutical companies who train these doctors can’t earn big money on nutrition. They can’t patent natural products it’s as simple as that. Instead they ‘try’ to copy nature by developing medication that the doctor can sample and they earn the big money.

Aging.
With the baby boom generation aging, sickness care will be unaffordable for more and more people. Meaning, less opportunities for doctors to earn money. Insurance companies in the E.U. seen what HMO has done in the U.S. and they start going in that direction, again the doctors paycheck will be less.

Nutrition
The big boom in healthcare is nutrition and it’s already showing it’s results against all odds. Powerful sources are doing everything in their power to give nutrition a bad reputation. But don’t underestimate the power of word to mount advertisement. ‘Looking good’ in the eyes of your colleague isn’t going to pay the bills in the future.

It’s getting better,
… for those who dare to step out of the box. With nutritional test available YOU can be in the picture with anti aging treatments. What did / do I hear from many doctors? Nutritional supplements, well I’m not really interested, but this test eh, … what’s in it for me?
What do you want, earn a small fee once a year and exchange time for money? Or do you like to earn money - every single day -because you showed the results of taking more nutritional supplements. About those doctors who told me; “My patients can’t afford this test”. The answer: “How do you know, did you ask them? And if they really can’t, what’s wrong finding people who are happy to pay you money if you can offer a real solution to their problems. Are you happy to send these patients to those anti aging clinics?

Some doctors,
… will never change their believes. Why? Fear of change, what would my colleagues think or say if I …? Will I loose referrals? Will it be: if you don’t change, the system, and the well informed costumers, will change it for you?
- Henk Mutsaers

Are doctors being prostituted?

Insurance company Menzis (the Netherlands) wants to reward doctors to subscribe cheaper medication to their patients. For every prescription the doctor receives a few euro witch can lead to a couple of thousand euro extra income in the practice. Mezis is one of the four leading insurance companies in the Netherlands. They’ve done this financial proposition to all General Practitioners. The company expects to save 3 million Euros on medication in 2006. The money paid to the doctors comes from insurance premiums. One of the Dutch General Practitioners said; Are we being prostituted?

Source de Telegraaf Newspaper

Women doctors and their careers: what now?

Despite a record number of female medical students, medicine remains a white male dominated profession but its days as such are numbered, says a paper in this weeks BMJ.

Twenty years ago the old boy network and behind the scenes telephone calls were dominant factors in the selection process, and many women who wanted to reduce their hours to spend time with their children were not regarded as proper doctors says Isobel Allen, Professor of Health and Social Policy.

Since then however the proportion of women consultants has doubled from 12% in 1983 to 25% in 2004. General practice has also seen figures multiply - from 19% in 1983 to 38% now.

Changes to the medical career structure in the last few years, such as more flexible training programmes, and shorter hours due to the European Working Time Directive, have all made the career more viable for women.

Ongoing concerns remain, however. Only 7% of consultant surgeons are female for instance, and women doctors do not even make up 40% of the workforce in either general practice or hospital medicine, says Professor Allen. Also, less women than men are in registered doctor training posts.

Academic medicine - training the doctors of tomorrow - is a career path facing serious shortages of women, as the demands of juggling research, being a doctor, and having a family life when little career flexibility is on offer has made the job unattractive to women.

Women often have an M-shaped career structure, showing that contrary to popular belief, many women do not abandon medicine after childbirth but return to their careers.

Despite this, there is still suspicion about those who have not reached a certain grade by a certain age. It is time to reject old fashioned practices and attitudes like these, which deny women the opportunity to make their full contribution, says the author.

The days when pursuing a career in medicine meant losing the right to a normal life for either men or women are rightly gone, says Professor Allen.It was not a golden age and will never return, she concludes.