Here’s one case where they failed miserably. Sometimes people laugh when you ask for medical advice online or whatever but the scary fact is that we have to be responsible for our own health because we can’t necessarily trust doctors to do what’s best for us.
Sure when we get sick they’ll talk to us for [...]

This is a friend’s story: I have a bridge because of dental malpractice. I had a cap put on a tooth due to a bad cavity. The dentist then told me I was good to go. He had put on a TEMPORARY cap, never saw in his files in return visits (checkups and cleanings) that [...]

A friend’s dad was in the hospital. The friend was visiting and was sitting there reading a magazine while dad napped. Long time Primary Care doctor, who was NOT an attending physician poked his head in and asked friend how dad was feeling … never read the chart or even approached dad. Dad passed a [...]

Here’s an interesting story from the New York Times about how using platlets from a patient’s own blood can be an alternative to surgery. I know one guy who had to regrow some bone in his mouth for some dental work. They used this blood platlet technique on him (after taking some blood and putting [...]

This article from the New York Times talks about how unhappy doctors are. They are overworked because they spend too much time dealing with insurance companies and patients who think they know something. Here’s a story that comes from a friend of mine (not from the article):
A patient comes in with 2 days of congestion [...]

WAYS TO BE SEEN QUICKER IN THE ER (No particular order)
1- Arrive by ambulance. They can’t take a patient from an ambulance and put them in the waiting room in most states. This is also why you can wait in the waiting room forever… if a steady stream of meatwagons keep pulling up, [...]

I’ve known for a long time that Thailand is famous for cosmetic surgery resorts and sex change operations. It seems that more countries want to benefit from medical tourism. They call it medical value travel in India alhtough many people feel that India does not yet have the infrastructure to support world-class healthcare.
As one of [...]