Think about this. 4 out of 5 persons over age 65 will require some personal care and support with basic activities of daily living in their remaining years. Most persons are totally in denial and unprepared for the financial requirements of that care. In the US, the cost of one ...
from a patient. june 12 2023 The cleanliness of the hospital has me concerned for my and others overall health and wellness I just recently had half my foot amputated to be laying in bed to look down and see a mouse running around the room A vent in the ...
Bill called RCM Health about his sister. His sister Jane is 76. She is hospitalized and has a number of health issues. Bill is going to turn 80. Jane asked Bill to be her power of attorney (POA) for care. The POA for care would help to make decisions about ...
May 25, 2023 Charles Frederick Sharp III had called the police to his home in southwest New Jersey in the middle of the night to report trespassers in his backyard. One was carrying a gun, Mr. Sharp, who spent more than 20 years in the U.S. Air Force, told a ...
According to the Economist ( May 2023): In Britain the focus is on how to fix the beleaguered National Health Service (NHS). In Canada, beleaguered is kind. Broken best describes Canada's heatlhcare scene. Go to an ER to test drive heatlhcare. Hospital waiting lists in England have spiralled beyond 7 ...
Not enough thought is being put into understanding the toxic workplace in healthcare and how to fix it. Many nurses and doctors are opting out. They are opting out because their workplace is toxic. The workplace is damaging them. Their health. Their psyche. Their stability. Their families. So the obvious ...
The greatest tragedy in responding to disasters, and CDN healthcare is disaster, is the misuse of the chain of learning. We fail to learn or we do not implement what we learn. There is a need to do disaster contingency planning for healthcare. Especially primary care. Those in public health ...
I walk the puppy at least twice per day. I tend to look down at the sidewalk. Looking down so as to not stumble. When I look down, there is a story revealed by the imprints in the concrete. In the 1950's 60's and 70's, the imprints show that the ...
Quebec is unique. Family doctors can opt out of medicare. In Quebec the provincial payor is RAMQ. We just got the list with all those doctors who have opted out of medicare in Quebec. The list that we got has about 700 doctors who have opted out. There are about ...
Virtual healthcare or telehealth on a platform like microsoft teams or zoom grew from about 1% pre-pandemic to about 70% during and after the pandemic. Patients and their psychiatrists were amazed by the ease of use and by how the platform made the services more available. But as of today, ...