Progressive Vision Loss - Articles
Hospitals in Hawaii Continue to Lose Money – Desperate Hospitals
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Medical Quack
Some of the hospitals went bankrupt and are now trying to recover. Hawaii has been a focus of telemedicine more so perhaps than other states and it also stands to represent some potential savings. The report states in the long run for next year, things are not going to get much better with current economic conditions and people losing their healt ...
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Celebrating Life
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aggie01l
Today I had the honor to attend the memorial service for a precious baby girl named Kaiya. She was perfectly formed and created by the Lord but she was born far too early to survive. My heart broke in pieces for her lovely family who is grieving such a devastating loss. In spite of this grief, baby Kaiya's grandfather spoke on behalf of the family ...
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New Bike Love
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Karen Voyer-Caravona
No, I don't have a new bike and still am passionate about the Breezer Uptown 8 but my eye did wander this week. The story in brief as follows: The Running Bob and I visited Absolute Bikes early in the week so that he could reserve his bike rental for this weekends Blue Water Triathlon. As we walked in Bob nodded his head toward a vision of lovelin ...
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Humana One Sees Profits Rise in Third Quarter
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JLevy
According to the article “Humana Profit Rises 65% Despite Commercial Falloff” by The Associated Press on the NYTimes.com, Humana One posted a significant profit because of an increase in membership and premiums from Medicare Advantage. Humana’s quarterly revenue increased by 8% as enrollment rose 11% from last year in its Medicare ...
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Top Tips for Dealing with Your Patient’s Family
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NPs Save Lives
The following is a guest article from Kathleen Baker:Wouldn’t it be great if you could just do your job as a nurse practitioner, and do it the way you know is best? Unfortunately with most patients, you also have to answer to the family members and friends who have their own opinions about how your patient should be cared for. And while havin ...
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Opthamologist
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Lisa
Finn had a regular follow-up appointment with the pediatric opthamologist today. It was a complete non-event, which I guess is good. Everything looks good, he seems to see just fine, and the doc didn't mention anything about the apparent smaller optic nerve that he made note of 9 months ago. Whatever. Sometimes I feel like we're just going thro ...
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Checking off the Medical Appointments....
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Paula Burckhard
As the days go on, I am able to check off the medical appointments needed for both Bella and Grace. Today, with the help of our Jen, we headed off for Grace to have her blood drawn to check up on her thyroid. She has been complaining of being tired lately. She says "I not sick, I tired!" And her gym teacher said she is wanting to go off a ...
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