Preventive medicine

Act (HIPAA) of 1996, this law had a significant impact in both the patient and the health care provider. The HIPAA Privacy Rule, finally came effective in 1996, followed by the HIPAA Security Rule in 2003, changing the history in the practice of medicine and health insurance administration. Later, the HIPAA Enforcement Rule and the Breach Notification Rule was followed as well. People were skeptical and wondered whether the new HIPAA would really make a impact, and if any impact would be for the…

In order to move on to receiving an MD, one must attend four years at Medical school, before going onto three years of residency for a specialty in medicine. After completing these three years of residency, and now there's a pediatrician in the world and are eligible to become certified in pediatrics by passing a test administered by the American Board of Pediatrics. During college, most med students…

treatment and preventative disease amounts to billions of dollars each year for Americans. However, there is one prescription that could be prescribed that would assist with treatment and prevention, it’s called exercise, and it’s totally free. Sports Medicine Physician, Jordan D. Metzl, M.D., from the Hospital for Special Surgery of New York City, insists that exercise is sort of a magic pill, and it adds increased health and wellness value to the entire body, both mentally and…

"The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work and the only way to do great work is to love what you do". My inspiration, to save others the emotional agony I had to go through, to prevent children from becoming orphans, wives becoming widows and parents losing their future generations. Sitting outside the ER on the cold December night, having lost my father an hour earlier from complications of congestive heart failure, I had to make a choice. I was in 8th grade I…

It is often difficult to draw a boundary line between medicine and poison because medicine in large doses acts as poison and that a poison in a small dose is a medicine. The only real difference in the legal sense is the intent with which they are purposely and not accidentally given. Acute childhood poisoning is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in children, which can be significantly and effectively controlled by preventive measures. The exposure of toxic substances to children…

It is a healthcare worker’s job to know how to handle their diverse patients. Each patient might have different cultures that the healthcare worker should either know already or should inquire about with the patient if possible. Cultures are different from each other and this can prove difficult in a healthcare system when nurses and doctors are trying to bring people to health; requiring perhaps to need to touch the patient in a way they might not be used to. Here are four barriers that…

policies, the emphases is leaning towards the prevention of disease in the community. It is very important for all physical therapists to understand and incorporate community health education activities into their professional practice to integrate preventive actions and awareness into community aiming to maintain and improve health. Physical therapists have an important role in the community health education with emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention. Due to significant…

have the largely preventable illness but they come to the hospital when the disease is adverse. Of course, there are various reason to explain this scenario in the Ugandan Context. Most people point out the lack access to essential health care and medicines as the cause of the problem. As a young doctor, this situation has led me to my quest for answers to why so many people continue to die of largely of preventable illness…

Statistics show that our current multi-payer healthcare system explicitly favors specific racial groups over other minorities (Institute of Medicine). As reported by the Institute of Medicine, Hispanics are two to three times more likely to be uninsured than non-Hispanic whites (Institute of Medicine). Establishing a single-payer healthcare system would legally insure appropriate representation and equality amongst all citizens throughout the United States. A healthcare…

the allowable charge which is the Medicare fee. Nonparticipating providers are limited to charging no more than 115% of the TRICARE allowable charge. Authorized providers include the following: Doctor of medicine (MD) Doctor of osteopathy (DO) Doctor of dental surgery (DDS) Doctor of dental medicine (DDM) Doctor of podiatry (DPM) Doctor of optometry (DO) Psychologist (PhD) Tricare Standard: a fee for service plan available that allows military families to seek care from civilian providers. In…