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Promoting a One-Stop Medical Health Center

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:20:44 +0000

One-stop medical health centers are venues that provide all-around medical and dental health care to both member and walk-in patients. One-stop medical health centers are commonly found in commercial areas like malls or local shopping centers. Health centers commonly have a staff of licensed medical professionals that treat patients who visit. The health center commonly has a registration area, a triage, a pharmacy, consultation rooms, and laboratories for blood work, X-ray and neurological examinations. Owners of health clinics also face marketing challenges particularly in its beginning stages. One effective and affordable way to promote one-stop medical health centers is the use of printed marketing materials. Below are examples of printed materials that can be used to market this business.Brochures Brochures on one-stop medical health centers can prove to be quite useful for potential patients. Most patients do not have adequate information about the health centers products and services. This is the reason why brochures are a valuable reference. Brochures are handy and easy to distribute. They can include information about the health centers terms and conditions, consultation rates, health insurance accreditations, business hours, types of medical services and medical staff. Business cards Business cards are small but efficient mediums of information and promotion of one-stop medical health centers. Medical center owners can provide medical business cards to their staff bearing the logo and name of the center. Aside from having essential information such as name, contact numbers, field of expertise and accreditation, professional business cards can also include other branch listings of the medical health clinic, location maps, products and services offered. Business cards can be ordered in bulk through commercial printing services. Posters Posters are highly-visual marketing materials that can directly and quickly spread awareness about a new medical health center. A poster print can be used for a health centers grand opening, a launching of a new service, or special holiday discounts on products and services. Posters can be placed in storefronts and wall placement ads. Posters can be conveniently designed and printed through the services of online poster printing companies.

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Medical Malpractice Nassau County: the Basics

admin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:14:05 +0000

Medical malpractice refers to the failure of a health care provider to provide accepted standards of service. If the health care provider deviates in any respect from the norms of treating a patient, it is termed as medical malpractice. This failure or deviation is very dangerous for a patient as it can cause injury to him, or in extreme cases lead to the patient’s death. This means that medical practice is nothing but professional negligence on the part of the health care provider. Medical Malpractice in Nassau County can be common due to large medical organizations pushing their doctors to be as efficient as humanly possible. This strive for excellence and efficiency causes doctors and nurses to move product or patients as fast as possible causing lapses in judgment that leads to medical errors.

Just like in other lawsuits, even in medical malpractice Nassau County lawsuits there is a plaintiff and defendant. The plaintiff will be the patient, while the defendant is the health care provider, who can be a doctor, physician, therapist or dentist. In case the malpractice led to the patient’s demise, the plaintiff’s role is assumed by an individual who is the administrator or executor of the deceased patient’s estate. Due to the close proximity of Nassau County to New York City, many people are going to hire medical malpractice attorney in both Nassau County and New York City. This means that there is large competition between law firms that could potentially affect the cost of your litigation. Therefore, it is imperative that you hire a medical malpractice Nassau County attorney that has the right experience and knowledge to help you.

Even a hospital, clinic or medical center can be sued for medical malpractice. Depending on the gravity of the case, managed care organizations or medical corporations can be defendants too. Even nurses can be liable as previous cases have shown us that non-physicians cannot be protected for just following orders.

A medical malpractice in Nassau County lawsuit should prove that the medical treatment or care that was supposed to be given or undertaken by the health care provider was not done so. In addition, it must also be proven that the health care provider failed to perform his or her duties according to the prescribed standards. The case should further prove that the duties performed by the health care provider were breached. All this can be done by sworn testimony or proved results of obvious errors.

Medical malpractice in Nassau County is similar to tort cases anywhere. The plaintiff’s attorney first files the lawsuit. The time between the filing and the trial is then used for sharing information between the concerned parties. This period involves depositions, interrogations and requests for documents. If the two parties cannot come to a mutual understanding, the case then proceeds for trial. In the trial, it is important to have expert witnesses who should have enough training, education and knowledge about the specific medical issue. It is only then they can qualify as experts witnesses. If the plaintiff wins the case, he can be awarded punitive as well as compensatory damages.

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Medical Aromatherapy of Biobell

admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:35:49 +0000

Medical Aromatherapy of BioBell

Even though aromatherapy oil products are popular these days, there are not so many people who know the application and the effect of aromatherapy properly.

For example, just because you use the aromatherapy oils when you feel bad, it does not mean you are getting better on the medical side.

If you want to feel the effect using the aromatherapy oils, it would be better that you use the blended oils with more than tree kinds of essential oils in proper ratio.

BioBell manufactures and sales various medical aromatherapy products.

BioBell is researching and producing aromatherapy products and natural cosmetic products.

BioBell Aromatherapy products show very good effects for the diseases and problems which are difficult to be treated by ordinary methods including modern medicine and any other alternative therapies.

By long term and extensive results of treatments by BioBell Aromatherapy products at over 450 hospitals and clinics in Korea, BioBell Aromatherapy products revealed to be very satisfactory for the refractory diseases.

Here is a case of a patient.

Ji-Soo Kim (53 years old) had the symptoms of frozen shoulder for 13 months.

Symptoms were limitation of motion of the shoulder joint, severe sharp catching pain in the shoulder, and pain without trauma in left elbow joint.

She took the injections and medicines in orthopedics but her symptoms were not getting better.

Just after 10 minutes of application of Releagen (BioBells medical aromatherapy product), joint movement range of right shoulder was recovered completely and pain of right wrist and left elbow joint was also recovered promptly. After 30 minutes, she could not have any problem with motion and pain.

Characteristics of BioBell Aromatherapy products

1. In case of products for musculoskeletal pain treatment, usually you can feel the big effect after first trial and usually after 10 minutes.

2. There is no other same products which having same effects in the world.

3. The side effects is very rare comparing to medicines and is very trivial when occurred.

4. All the products are made from only from natural plants materials.

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Global Medical Book Announcing their Definition of Medical Tourism

admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:35:41 +0000

In todays world, medical insurance and costs are very high priced for just about any type of medical procedure, check up, or doctors visit. Medical expenses are very high in the United States, on the flip side, the UK and Canada have universal medical coverage but all too frequently people and patients are exposed to substandard medical conditions in order to save a buck. So the next question would be where can I get some of the best medical care for a reasonable (astronomically lower) price?

Lets think for a minute…

Some of the worlds’ and the United States best doctors are from India, China, and the Middle East, so why not take a beautiful vacation while receiving some of the best medical care for any ailment. These medical vacations can also be called medical tourism. Medical tourism is becoming very popular worldwide and many people are truly benefiting from the high quality medical care, low cost medical expenses, and all doing so while on a very beautiful and tranquil vacation.

As with anything worthwhile, medical tourism is becoming a high demand industry worldwide and competition is pretty interesting. What I mean by this is there are now medical tourism travel agencies, all inclusive medical travel packages and plans, medical vacations. These packages can offer everything from airfare to hotels, food to limousine service, all medical travel packages offering many lavish upgrades.

Visit Global Medical Group to find out more! Receive the best healthcare at an affordable price while traveling the world.

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Health Care Reform: an Opportunity for Insurance Industry Participation in Sierra Leone’s Medical Care System

admin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:56:09 +0000

The socialized system of healthcare delivery and financing, a relic of the British colonial era, still practiced in Sierra Leone has glaringly failed and any efforts at resuscitating it without implementation of major structural and systemic reform will only serve to prolong the inevitable.

Throughout the world, total state control and management of industries, services, markets and the means of production are gradually becoming a relic of the past. This model as practiced in the Sierra Leone healthcare system has empirically been proven to have served only to stifle innovation, growth, productivity and quality output with a resultant decline in overall living and healthcare standards of the citizenry. The current state of the hospitals and health centers glaringly highlights the systemic problems endemic in the entire government owned, managed, financed and operated health care system.

The continued operation of such a decadent and dilapidated delivery and financing system, lacking in even the basics of a modern healthcare infrastructure continues relegating Sierra Leone to the very bottom of the human development index.

The transformation thus of the medical healthcare delivery and financing systeminto a private insurance or a national insurance based system offers opportunities not only for insurers to develop market-based medical insurance plans and policies but also serves to effectuate the Ministry of Health & Sanitations desired policy goals, as espoused in the 2002 National Health Policy Paper.

Both policy and regulatory officials, healthcare providers, the insurance industry and other stakeholders must be engaged to effectuate implementation of fundamental systemic reforms if the country is to avert an even greater catastrophe.

Privatization:

Underthe proposed privatization plan, the Ministry of Health & Sanitation will be transformed from ownership and management of hospitals, clinics, and employer of last resort for all physicians, nurses and ancillary healthcare providers into a health agency with only policy and regulatory functions.

The goal will be for the health agency to serve as a policy and regulatory watch dog mandated with ensuring that adequate and quality medical care is provided at the various private hospitals, clinics and pharmacies that will inevitably be established with the break-up of the current government owned facilities.

With the break-up and subsequent purchase or leases of these hospitals, clinics, health centers and other facilities, investors and entrepreneurs in an effort to realize maximum returns on investments, will economically be compelled to upgrade quality and standard of care, introduce state of the art equipment and technologies and engender a type of market forces competition which will inure only to the betterment of health consumers in the country.

A much needed infusion of capital into the health care industry by such a privatization plan will clearly spur additional economic activities in ancillary industries, as the dynamic forces of privatization and market mechanism forces of demand and supply will ensure competition for the healthcare pie.

Divestiture of Government Ownership:

The dismantling of the current mammoth and highly inefficient government owned healthcare delivery and financing entity must from a public policy perspective be designed and restructured to ensure governmental ownership and management divestiture from hospitals and other health care facilities.

Under such a scenario the governments current enormous but woefully mismanaged capital outlay for health services will be substantially decreased as inefficiencies of corruption, salaries of providers, infrastructure maintenance, costs of medications and diagnostic equipments and other overhead operating costs will no longer be recurrent expenditures from the nations depleting coffers.

A system based entirely on a private market-based national health insurance plan with private enterprise and market competition at its core appears the most logical reform policy route to ensure a future sound, efficient and profitable health care infrastructure.

Health Insurance Plans:

The cog which the proposed new system must revolve around is a nationwide network of affordable health insurance plans creatively designed to ensure a greater pool participation of a majority of the population. In such a system health insurance companies and provider organizations will be established to market various health plans, with minimum services and premiums based on market conditions. The responsibility for monitoring compliance by the various plans would fall under the ambit of both the Ministry of Health and Sanitation and the Sierra Leone Insurance Commission.

Multi-Payer System:

A major plank in this proposed health care delivery and financing privatization hinges on the enactment of health insurance legislation providing for employers to provide health care for their employees and dependants as part of a standard benefits package with concomitant tax incentives and governmental subsidies to ensure compliance. With such legislation the virtual free socialized medical care system, the costs of which have been borne exclusively by the government will now be based on a multi-payer system in which government, employees and employers will all participate.

With the system as currently structured however, only the government has a financial interest and stake and when other programs conflict with the financing of health care, politicians have only been too willing to sacrifice the health of their citizens on he alter of their greed and personal aggrandizement.

It is envisaged that health insurance providers will introduce concepts and plans, such as Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO) and Preferred Provider Organizations (PPO), through alliances of health providers and insurance companies and marketed to employers, labor unions, governmental ministries and corporations on an annual premium basis.

The competition engendered by such health organizations for the medical insurance pie will subsequently result in competitive rates, coverage, deductibles, co-payments and premiums to make health care costs affordable for all.

The Unemployed:

As unemployment and underemployment are perennial problems in the Sierra Leonean economy, the provision of health care benefits to this category of the population must remain the responsibility of government. Medical services provided to this category of citizens in a private enterprise environment must be reimbursed by the government on a negotiated and pre-determined fee schedule or an insurance mechanism established in which government negotiates with providers and carriers for the provision of services.

As an example a fund established by levying taxes on the private health care providers, envisaged to emerge with such privatization, could be instituted and utilized to pay for these indigent services.

Further, since the hospitals, medical clinics and other medical facilities will be operated as businesses, either for profit or as non-profit organizations, the market forces of demand and supply will certainly ensure that patient quality care, improvements in diagnostic technologies, competent personnel and a general responsiveness to the demands of the clients will drive the new marketplace. The lethargic and inefficient atmosphere witnessed at most government hospitals today with customer service virtually non existent would be a philosophy of the past.

The economic viability of healthcare businesses will depend largely on the clientele they can attract and maintain utilizing the above yardstick. Providers of lousy health care plans and services will inevitably loose business to competitors as every year participants will have an opportunity to change health insurance plans.

Since a large population of Sierra Leone resides in rural areas, the proposed privatization plan will ensure the expansion of health care facilities into areas currently inadequately serviced. This plan will ensure that clinics and doctors put up shop in every part of the country in order to tap into the healthcare services available in these rural areas.

Challenges to Insurance Companies:

Designing an insurance system and plan to cater to the needs of the rural population who often are self employed in farming and mining activities posses a challenge to insurers in Sierra Leone, who in the past have been largely passive and unimaginative in policy design to meet the challenges and risks confronting the nations socio-economic landscape.

Proactive and creative underwriting of risks must be undertaking by underwriters, actuaries and marketing specialists to design, tailor and price health insurance coverage to meet the diverse needs of the insuring public. For example, the creation of pools by occupational categories could be one method by which insureds, engaged in similar trades could be encouraged to form co-operatives for purposes of obtaining health insurance coverage at affordable rates for themselves and dependants. Premium payments through the pooling together of the co-operatives commodities can be an alternative payment method for the medical services. Health insurance companies could possibly establish subsidiary or ancillary companies solely for the handling of payments made by cash crops.

The current system under which nearly all doctors and related health care providers are employed by the government while at the same time owning private practices would be changed with a concomitant government savings on salaries, productivity and other fringe benefits. As privatization takes over in the hospitals, physicians, nurses and other providers will no longer be on the governments payroll but will rather be independent contractors with their own practices.

Conclusion:

Whilst a micro version of the proposed reform has mushroomed in an ad hoc manner over the years with some large companies and corporations contracting with individual physicians and clinics for the provision of health care to their employees and dependants, the kind of systemic and structural overhaul needed to forestall a total collapse of the system and extend similar services to all could only be realized by a comprehensive approach along lines of reforms proposed in this policy paper.

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Medical Electives in Nepal / Health Internship in Nepal

admin — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:31:16 +0000

MEDICAL / HEALTH INTERNSHIP IN NEPAL/ MEDICAL ELECTIVES IN NEPAL Volunteer Society Nepal aims to mobilize medical students and volunteers with health backgrounds in rural places where people do not have access to any health institutes, as the government is not able to provide adequate health services. On the other hand, rural Nepali people are often reluctant to go to the hospital and other modern health services because of orthodox thinking, superstition and other cultural influences. Some of the Nepali people may visit a witchdoctor when they are suffering from an illness. Therefore, it is possible that they die without getting the benefit of modern medication. VSN is playing an active role in linking people in rural areas with volunteers from the west and health volunteers within the country who are really eager to serve the many unprivileged people in Nepal. Volunteers will mainly be involved in following three activities:- (1) Working in the Health Post/ Clinic/ Hospital in Nepal Medical/Premedicalstudents will be assigned to clinics, sub-health posts, hospitals and other health institutions. These are either run by the government or a local community in both rural and urban settings. Health students will work with health assistants, doctors, nurses or some combination within. Your daily work will include helping to perform the health staffs job. It will also involve researches of common diseases and health issues. Students will get the opportunity to learn about the basic medication system in Nepal. The work will be daily, 3 to 5 hours, 6 days a week. The Health institutions provide health services to the poor and marginalized people in the community and volunteers will observe and practice following activities: Health Post Based Activities 1. General daily clinic 2. MCH Family planning (Temporary devices) Immunization Ante-natal and post natal clinics Health education Health post based normal deliveries Immunization 3. Pharmacy 4. Simple surgeries 5. Community oral health Clinic 6. Nutritional Rehabilitation center 7. Health Post based nutrition follow up 8. TB Clinic 1. Maternal and Child Health Care Immunization Under 5 health screening Antenatal care Postnatal care Normal home and health post based delivery Identification and referral of high risk pregnancy 2. Family Planning Services DMPA COC Pills Norplant Condom distribution 3. General OPD Services General clinic Pharmacy Dressing and injection Minor surgery 4. TB dots clinic Identification Counseling Treatment Follow up (2) Health Camps in Nepal Part of volunteers program will be deployment to work in health camps for a predetermined amount of time: 1 day to 3 days. (Volunteers will work with their Nepali experience medical personnel. The students responsibilities are to distribute medicine and consult with citizens about health-care. Through this Health camp, poor and marginalized people in the community will be provided general health services and students will observe and practice following activities: Community Health Camp Examining patients Providing general medicines Identification and referral if needed Immunization Education on oral hygiene DMPA, COC Pills, Condom distribution Heath post based follow up (3) Health and Sanitation Awareness Volunteers will be mainly involved in teaching about proper health-care and sanitation and will work with youth clubs, women groups and other local organizations. In addition, they will provide HIV/Aids awareness, First-Aid information to the local people in rural villages and thereby providing them with a practical life-skill. Similar educational lectures will be given to children, by Groups, in government schools, lasting from several days to a week in duration. Again, the Groups major focus will be to educate and mobilize community groups who can then pass the information onto the community at large. Following activities will be organized Community and School Based health program Activities HIV/Aids awareness Community health education activities School health education activities Anti smoking program Oral health education Reproduction health and sexual education First aid training and FA box distribution Others Apart from, learning and experiencing health related issue, students will get a maximum benefit:- Developing work experience in a marginal society and third world country Developing their personal and life skills Developing a deep understanding of the Nepali people, their language, and their various cultures Making a contribution to the ongoing development process of Nepal Enjoying such opportunities as taking part in local festivals, weddings, farming, and visiting different areas in local villagers Visit at http://www.vsnepal.org For details and reservation please contact at vsnnepal@ntc.net.np Application instructions:

To make reservation, please forward +A brief resume +A photo scanned small sized +A cover letter mentioning the program of choice, duration of stay and arrival date To Mr. Sugandha Shrestha VOLUNTEER PROGRAM DIRECTOR Volunteer Society Nepal Kathmandu, Nepal Mailing Address:- Volunteer Society Nepal P.O.Box : 8975 E.P.C. : 1589 Kathmandu, Nepal Phone No: (+977)1-2040353 (+977) 9851009342

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Myringotomy Ear Surgery in India at Jaslok Health Group through Medical Tourism

admin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:44:32 +0000

Myringotomy Ear Surgery in India is done at Jaslok Health Group under skilled surgeons who have acquired certification from best medical institution through out the world. Surgeons and physicians have served in overseas and are qualified in their precise field to fetch the patients coming in India from overseas. India is becoming a medical centre across the world for the people who live in overseas, as India provides one of the finest treatments and surgeries at effectively low expenditure, modern equipments, responsive staff, strong atmosphere, with recreational packages provided by Medical Tourism. Medical Tourism is one of the best options for the patients in overseas to come India for health related issues and after the treatment or surgery they can visit various exotic places in India as India is a land of exotic locations for pleasure and relaxation. India is providing one of the best deals for medication as compared to the other nations across the globe.

Ear Surgery is a type of cosmetic ear surgery that corrects prominent or misshaped ears, sometimes called bat ears. Ears an obvious feature of the face and head that others notice when they look at us, and ears that stick out can be the strike of many cruel jokes. Children with protruding ears are particularly prone to bullying. Ear Surgery such as to make a hole in the ear drum, is a common surgery. It is typically paired with the insertion of a typanostomy tube, a tiny tube that is placed in the recently created hole in the ear drum, which allows infectious material to drain from the middle ear. The procedure is performed by anotolaryngologist, also known as an ear, nose and throat physician.Many parents go for for their child to undergo ear correction surgery at an early age. Most aesthetic plastic surgery operations of this type are performed on young people under fourteen, but it is advisable to wait until the child is at least five years old before considering this option. By this time the ears are their full size and the cartilage is properly formed. Results of such aesthetic plastic surgery are generally very good with negligible scarring, and an enhancement in the shape of the ears is visible within two weeks, although healing may continue for several months afterwards.

The laser method of the Myringotomy ear surgery can be performed in a doctors office with an ear numbing medication, but the vast majority of procedures are performed in a hospital with general anesthesia. It may be difficult to locate a doctor performing this procedure outside of a hospital as the laser equipment is enormously expensive. The eardrum, also called thetympanic membrane, ordinarily heals within two weeks or so of a Myringotomy unless atubeis inserted into the opening that was made or unless the opening is made with a laser. Depending on the design of the tube, a Myringotomy and tube procedure can allow external ventilation of the middle ear space for weeks, months or even years. Myringotomy with tube insertion is performed for the relief of otitis medium. Pressure equalization tubes, known as tympanostomy orMyringotomy tubes, are usually placed at the time of Myringotomy tostentthe eardrum open.

Otherwise the rapid healing of the eardrum (a few days) would necessitate future myringotomies before the underlying condition is fully treated. Most tubes are made of a synthetic plastic material, such assiliconeorTeflon. They typically stay in place about nine months before they are naturally extruded by the rapidly healing eardrum. It is important toproperly prepare children for surgeryso that the experience is not a terrifying one. While different age groups require different information before surgery, it is important that the child should not find out about the surgery upon arrival at the hospital. It is well worth the time to make sure that a childs fears and concerns are addressed prior to the procedure. In most cases, a Myringotomy is performed on adults because of barotraumas. Barotraumas results from a significant difference in pressure inside the ear behind the eardrum and outside of the ear. Major differences in pressure can occur with altitude changes, such as riding in an elevator in a tall building or flying. Scuba diving can also result in barotraumas.

There is no need for incision care as the surgery is performed directly on the eardrum so no incision in the skin is made. In the first days of revival, drainage from the ear is expected. It may be pus like in appearance, blood tinged or clear fluid which is normal. At this point, the ear should be protected from water, which can get inside the ear through the tube, just as drainage comes out of the tube. Your surgeon may recommend earplugs be used during showers, swimming or any activity that has a risk of water entering the ear.

India is improvising patients from foreign countries to take treatment or have their surgeries done in India at reasonably affordable prices. The quality of treatment provided by the Indian hospitals and the surgeons there is excellent. The quality of treatment is compatible to the quality of the treatment available in the hospitals overseas. But the cost of treatment discourages most of the patients to delay their surgery or treatment. But Jaslok with the reasonable price and experienced medical team provide best deals for Myringotomy Ear Surgery in India under experienced supervision with recreational packages provided by the Medical Tourism in India. There is no waiting period or no advance booking for surgery or treatment in India. A patient can approach Indian hospitals any time and can have his surgery or treatment done with utmost care and comfort. Surgeons and physicians assure their patients to recover early and to provide best treatment. Medical Tourism also provides better recreational or holiday packages for the patients coming in India from overseas.

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