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		<title>The Right Questions for your General Practitioner</title>
		<link>http://www.pricedoc.com/blog/2010/06/15/the-right-questions-for-your-general-practitioner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>areg.b</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Kimberly DeOre]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A successful visit to your general practitioner is as much about asking the right questions as it is about the competence of your doctor. If you're in for a routine visit, or if you're in for a more serious issue, ask questions until you feel comfortable about what's going on. Asking questions shows you care, and asking the right questions will improve your relationship with your doctor. ]]></description>
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		<title>Paperwork Predicament?</title>
		<link>http://www.pricedoc.com/blog/2010/06/01/paperwork-predicament/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Marion</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you know what is becoming the most important work done in the hospital?  Many would believe medicine, but many hospitals are finding that paperwork takes up the most time.  Paperwork takes up as much as a third of a physicians workday, which often leads to a deteriorating professional morale.  Discussed by <a title="NYTimes blog" rel="nofollow" href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/paperwork-vs-patients/" target="_blank">Dr. Pauline Chen</a> from the New York Times, administrative responsibilities are keeping doctors from their primary role of treating patients.]]></description>
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		<title>What To Do When You Have a Dental Emergency</title>
		<link>http://www.pricedoc.com/blog/2010/04/02/what-to-do-when-you-have-a-dental-emergency/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pricedoc.com/blog/2010/04/02/what-to-do-when-you-have-a-dental-emergency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brittany Durdin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teeth and mouth injuries can happen at any time, and can be very painful. These injuries can range from a “minor chip or a severe crack to a knocked out tooth or painful toothache,” but “every dental injury should be taken seriously,” reports SpotThisNow.com. If you are suffering from a tooth injury, you should not put off going to the dentist because that will only make the injury worse. Dentists have all kinds of treatments and options for dental emergencies, “including pain management, cosmetic dentistry and restoration techniques,” states SpotThisNow.com.]]></description>
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		<title>Suffering From a Sports Injury? Should You Go to the Doctor or Tough It Out?</title>
		<link>http://www.pricedoc.com/blog/2010/04/01/suffering-from-a-sports-injury-should-you-go-to-the-doctor-or-tough-it-out/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pricedoc.com/blog/2010/04/01/suffering-from-a-sports-injury-should-you-go-to-the-doctor-or-tough-it-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brittany Durdin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are suffering from a sports related injury, such as a sore heel from running or an aching shoulder from swimming, do you schedule a doctor appointment or just tough it out? Paul D. Thompson, a cardiologist at Hartford Hospital and marathon runner, says that most people shouldn’t go see a doctor. He says most doctors don’t know a lot of about sports injuries and will simply tell you to rest.

Dr. Musahl, who also competes in marathons and triathlons, agrees with Thompson. Musahl recommends staying away from doctors if you have injuries like a sore knee or hamstring or heel or hip, but says there are “red flags that should prompt you to get medical attention.”]]></description>
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		<title>New Law Forces Providers to Reveal Prices</title>
		<link>http://www.pricedoc.com/blog/2010/03/11/new-law-forces-providers-to-reveal-prices/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pricedoc.com/blog/2010/03/11/new-law-forces-providers-to-reveal-prices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brittany Durdin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to FierceHealthcare.com, a bill was signed into law on Tuesday in Wisconsin that forces providers to reveal the costs of common tests and procedures, which in turn will allow patients to compare prices and shop around.  “The Health Care Transparency bill will give patients a better idea of their out-of-pocket costs and effectively enables them to price shop,” said Gov. Jim Doyle, who signed the bill into law.

In any other situation people see the price of a product before they purchase it; however, in healthcare it is the exact opposite.]]></description>
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		<title>Managing Cancer &#8211; A Survival Story</title>
		<link>http://www.pricedoc.com/blog/2010/02/18/managing-cancer-a-survival-story/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pricedoc.com/blog/2010/02/18/managing-cancer-a-survival-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Lack M.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On or about August 27, 2002 I awoke in the morning and went to work as usual. I did not know that my world as I knew it was about to change irrevocably. On a subliminal basis I knew that I had cancer of the soul. My marriage was in name only, my family dissipated, my work was my passion. I did not understand that in a few hours, a Kafkaesque moment, I would turn yellow and the cancer in my soul would become the cancer in my pancreas. That was then — now I am a 7 year survivor of a cancer that few get to tell about.]]></description>
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		<title>Family Practitioner Says Healthcare Reform Begins at Home</title>
		<link>http://www.pricedoc.com/blog/2010/02/16/3787/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brittany Durdin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Diana Rosetti from CantonRep.com reports that “watching politicians on television outline ways to save taxpayer dollars through health care reform spurred Dr. Cynthia J. Koelker into action.” Koelker is not your ordinary doctor; she makes house calls and keeps her practice small in order to establish close relationships with her patients. She stresses that patients should constantly ask their doctors questions, and be proactive in their healthcare. Koelker says, “I thought I could write a list of 100 things people could do today, so I sat down at my kitchen table and did it.” Koelker published a book entitled “101 Ways to Save Money on Healthcare” which reveals information medical professionals know and other’s do not.]]></description>
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		<title>Rural Residents Need Healthcare Reform</title>
		<link>http://www.pricedoc.com/blog/2010/02/15/rural-residents-need-healthcare-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pricedoc.com/blog/2010/02/15/rural-residents-need-healthcare-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brittany Durdin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study showed that if healthcare reform doesn’t pass, rural residents will suffer substantially. Lynda Waddington from The Iowa Independent states, “Jon Bailey, director of the rural research and analysis program at the Center and author of the study, believes that existing health care policy, or lack of it, places rural people at a disadvantage that will worsen if steps are not taken by Congress.” Bailey went on to say that “the benefits far outweigh the risks of inaction.”]]></description>
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		<title>Heart Patients Struggling to Afford Healthcare Costs</title>
		<link>http://www.pricedoc.com/blog/2010/02/12/heart-patients-struggling-to-afford-healthcare-costs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pricedoc.com/blog/2010/02/12/heart-patients-struggling-to-afford-healthcare-costs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brittany Durdin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For heart patient Frank Amend, an engineer from North Carolina, his heaviest expense is healthcare, unlike the average American family whose mortgage would be at the top of the list as their biggest expense. Reuters states, “That's why Amend and tens of thousands of patients with similar conditions find themselves at the center of debate over how to reform the $2.5 trillion U.S. healthcare sector -- and whether the country can afford it.”]]></description>
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		<title>What about the Patients Who Can’t Afford the Care?</title>
		<link>http://www.pricedoc.com/blog/2010/02/05/what-about-the-patients-who-cant-afford-the-care/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pricedoc.com/blog/2010/02/05/what-about-the-patients-who-cant-afford-the-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brittany Durdin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Pauline W. Chen from The New York Times says being a doctor involves knowing the clinical facts like the back of your hand, but it also involves being aware of a patient’s economic reality. She recalls a time when she told one of her patients that he was to pack gauze into his open abdominal incision every day in order to keep it clean and healthy, and then come back in a few weeks for a check-up. However, when the patient arrived for his visit, Dr. Chen noticed the patient had not been changing the gauze as ordered, and his wound was no longer healthy and clean. When Dr. Chen began to stress to him the importance of changing the dressing, he pointed to a stack of unopened gauze, and said, “Hey, Doc … Do you think I could have the extra? This stuff isn’t cheap.” She says she filled the patient’s pockets with gauze, and then began to realize the importance of embracing the social and economic aspects of health care. She says, “It [is] possible to learn about the economic and social aspects of health care while immersed in the details of biology, physiology and pharmacology. And it [is] impossible to become a good clinician without doing so.”]]></description>
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		<title>Managing Your Symptoms</title>
		<link>http://www.pricedoc.com/blog/2010/02/05/managing-your-symptoms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. William J. Stillwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us are procrastinators. We let things go until the last minute. Papers, magazines, and books pile up on the desk until the process of finding what we're looking for resembles an archeological dig. Our garages look like our desks. Stuff fills the garage just like stuff covers the desk. Eventually, finding things resembles exploring for treasure in a dark, long-abandoned cave. We're motivated to clean our desks and garages only by the impossibility of adding any more stuff to the clutter and the piles.]]></description>
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		<title>Power Strollin&#8217; Mamas</title>
		<link>http://www.pricedoc.com/blog/2010/01/27/power-strollin-mamas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Meyers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having a baby is one of the most challenging times for women, not just emotionally but physically as well.

Healthy Moms, a company dedicated to promoting successful health and wellness programs to new expectant moms, has classes for women before, during and after pregnancy.

Getting back to the mom's prior healthy shape can be difficult but luckily neighbors are willing to help each other out. Most mom's want to attack those spots that are affected the most after having a baby; thighs and their tummy's. In Raleigh, NC in an area known as the Triangle, moms and their babies show up stroller in tow for a power strolling session. This way the mom's can exercise, get their kiddos out in the fresh open air and have a chance to have some girl chat.]]></description>
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		<title>What Happens if Health-Care Reform Doesn’t Pass?</title>
		<link>http://www.pricedoc.com/blog/2010/01/19/what-happens-if-health-care-reform-doesn%e2%80%99t-pass/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pricedoc.com/blog/2010/01/19/what-happens-if-health-care-reform-doesn%e2%80%99t-pass/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brittany Durdin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Millions of Americans are currently uninsured and the numbers keep on growing. If the health-care reform doesn’t pass, the numbers will continue to grow, and taxpayers will be footing the bill when the uninsured end up in the emergency room. “Families will continue to be paralyzed by the high costs and insecurity of medical coverage," and "people will opt against entrepreneurial ventures and postpone retirement because of the need to stay on employer health plans,” states Barb Shelly from the Kansas City Star. People will be denied affordable coverage from insurance companies due to “preexisting” conditions, and money spent on medical care will continue to overwhelm the country. “People will continue to die from preventable hospital infections and other unnecessary medical errors,” and “physicians will continue to be paid for procedures, not results,” reports Shelly.]]></description>
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		<title>Bringing Medical Tourism to the USA</title>
		<link>http://www.pricedoc.com/blog/2010/01/15/bringing-medical-tourism-to-the-usa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pricedoc.com/blog/2010/01/15/bringing-medical-tourism-to-the-usa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian Henley, M.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever heard of medical tourism? It is a term that refers to receiving medical care in a foreign country for much less than stateside costs. Many individuals are traveling to India for surgical procedures at drastically reduced rates. Here is an interesting example of a local company that secured a deal overseas; quoted from John Goodman’s <a href="http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/medical-tourism-reversing-course/">NCPA blog</a>...]]></description>
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		<title>Making A Life With Fibromyalgia Livable</title>
		<link>http://www.pricedoc.com/blog/2010/01/07/making-a-life-with-fibromyalgia-livable/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pricedoc.com/blog/2010/01/07/making-a-life-with-fibromyalgia-livable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Meyers</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[abnormal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[confidence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[depression]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life can be hard as it is. Add fibromyalgia into the mix and there is a recipe for a very painful life. But before the light at the end of the tunnel seems neverending, Health.com has provided some information that should help this life be more enjoyable.

Accept the diagnosis as soon as you can wrap your head around it then accept the pain you will live with everyday. Speak to your physician about any possible pain reducers. Research any herbal supplements that may ease the pain. Seek a counselor and talk about how you feel to help avoid falling into depression.]]></description>
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		<title>Dentists Close Kept Secrets</title>
		<link>http://www.pricedoc.com/blog/2009/12/29/dentists-close-kept-secrets/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pricedoc.com/blog/2009/12/29/dentists-close-kept-secrets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brittany Durdin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Preventive Healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dental secrets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dentist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dentists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[find a dentist]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How long do you sit in your dentists chair? Unless you are having major surgery, an hour... tops? That could possibly leave time for another 7 patients that day, and maybe about 40 patients a week... Ever wondered what might be going through your dentists head as they peer into mouth after mouth?

Well, Readers Digest did...]]></description>
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