Food at the Ottawa General Hospital
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Dr. Yoni Freedhoff
Today's installment in my ongoing Ottawa Hospital Food Series is the Ottawa General Hospital. The fare was more of the same - no-name junk food, although at least on the surface there were a few healthier sounding options: Wraps, whole-grain sandwiches and Carribean crusted snapper. Of course as evidenced at the Ottawa Civic, simply sounding ...
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Will the IRS be the spoiler in hospital-financed EHR and e-prescribing software distribution?
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David Harlow
Not-for-profit hospitals have been none too quick in rolling out cost-sharing programs for physician office EHR and e-prescribing tools. As Modern Healthcarereports this week, they are concerned about being second-guessed by the IRS, and having improper motives imputed to them, which could lead to sanctions. Given the scrutiny that tax-exempt ...
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New Futility Case: Rotaru v. Vancouver Hospital
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Thaddeus Pope
Yesterday's Vancouver Sunreports : "All the doctors involved in her treatment at Vancouver General Hospital agreed: Alecsandrina Priboi was dying. There was no hope for recovery, no point to continuing life support." So, VGH providers discontinued Proboi's medication and ventilator support in early February.Priboi's daughter, Georgeta ...
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SPOILER ALERT
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Selly
Wow, this is my third to last post about SYTYCD 3... no, 4th assuming I devote one to the tour. If you are not interested in spoilers for Wednesday's performance, DO NOT SCROLL DOWN! Neil and Sabra- Hip Hop Lacey and Danny- Vietnamese Watlz (if you didn't watch last season, you probably won't get that reference) Nanny (Danny an...
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Hospital becomes hot spot
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Medical Quack
Hospital becomes hot spot for Internet access. This is a separate network from the hospital patient and administrative records, but can really be useful not only for visitors, but any medical staff member needing a connection to conduct any type of business on the web. Can be very helpful to have this tool as an example for physicians when the...
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Patient education resource centers in hospitals
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Dr. Aniruddha M.
This is a photograph of a general hospital in India. Indian hospitals are very busy places; and doctors here are not renowned for their communication skills. In all fairness, they are so busy taking care of their patients, that they just don't have the time to even eat their meals on time - leave alone talk to patients. However , these patients ...
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This hospital in Pennsylvania is ...
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Medical Quack
This hospital in Pennsylvania is converting all operating rooms to handle telemedicine. One benefit stated is the opportunity to conduct surgery via telemedicine on prisoners as it is very difficult to transport them to a hospital and then there’s the obvious security risks as well. One physician remarks that at some point in time a phys...
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Edward Kennedy taken to hospital
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Robert D. M.
US Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy is resting and undergoing tests in a Boston hospital after experiencing what his office says was a "seizure". Mr Kennedy, 76, is conscious and talking with his family after earlier being flown from Cape Cod to Massachusetts General Hospital. His doctors have said that he did not suffer a stroke, as in...
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Top Hospitals in U.S. for Psychiatry
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Katherine S.
U.S. News & World Report has its Best Hospitals feature in this week's issue. They also rank hospitals based on specialties, including Psychiatry. I think it is important for women to know which hospitals in the U.S. excel in Psychiatry, given that we need to know where we can go for the best treatment. I know some of them excel in the tr...
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