The human body is amazing. We take for granted the underlying, almost autonomous functions that keep us healthy and functional. Most times, with a casual nonchalance, we don’t even realize what goes on second by second inside our bodies as we direct our conscious attention to interaction with the outside surrounding environment. Our bodies are more complex than most computers.
Organ system examples are fascinating.
Allen S. Weiss, MD, FACP, FACR, MBA
Recent posts by Allen S. Weiss, MD, FACP, FACR, MBA
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Measuring Quality of Care
Quality matters. Better health for everyone should be America’s goal. Where you live and receive your healthcare services makes a difference in your health.
Topics: Bulletin
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The Importance of Diet
Over 80% of illnesses are caused by our own behaviors. Most everyone knows there is an association between heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and hypertension with high lipids (fats in the blood). Equally understandable is the concept that we are what we eat.
Topics: Eat Wisely Bulletin
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Patient Navigators, an Invaluable Asset for the Sick
Patient navigators provide personal guidance for patients who are faced with daunting health challenges. These competent and compassionate professionals may well be lifesaving and, at the least, very comforting for you.
Topics: Bulletin
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Equity in Care
Equity in care is care that does not differ by geographic location, socioeconomic status, gender, ethnicity, or other patient characteristics according to an
American Hospital Association Guide for Hospital Leaders. Although no single solution for addressing disparities exists, multiple recommendations for reducing inequalities have been made. These suggestions include increased awareness, data collection, societal research, and most importantly taking action.
Topics: Bulletin
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The Dementia Challenge
The number of people with Alzheimer’s disease is expected to triple by 2050. That would be a projected rise from about 5 million to 13.8 million.
Topics: Bulletin
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Opioid Dependent Babies
Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) is a condition in which a newborn is born to a mother who has taken drugs such as heroin, codeine, oxycodone, methadone, buprenorphine, or another narcotic during her pregnancy.
Topics: Bulletin
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Precision Medicine and Big Data
Individual differences in health and disease are still not completely understood by modern medical science.
Our overall life spans have lengthened. But we do not definitively know what makes a difference among the many variables contributing to health or disease.
Topics: Bulletin
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A Lower Incidence of Major Illnesses
The overall death rate in America and other developed countries has dropped one or two percent per year since 1900 until 2013 but has risen since in the last decade. That is sad news.
Topics: Bulletin
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Protecting Yourself from Medication Side Effects
One of the most common treatments for someone receiving care involves taking a medication, or a few medications.
Unfortunately, medications come with side effects and interactions. These unforeseen and unwanted effects range in severity from benign to serious and in frequency from rare to commonplace.
