We’ve all had a doctor’s visit with a physician who lacked a pleasant bedside manner. In fact more often than not, doctors lack effective communication skills – the kind of skills that make patients feel comfortable or reassured.
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February is Heart Month. It’s always a good reminder to keep your heart healthy by eating right and exercising regularly. Heart disease remains the number one killer of Americans. A new imaging technique is helping to recognize a certain heart condition so that patients can get the treatment they need sooner.
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Just 60 years ago, house calls for doctors were common. If your child was sick you could call the doctor and he would show up in a couple hours with his black bag. While times have changed, what’s old is new again with the increasing acceptance of telemedicine. Instead of the doctor arriving on your doorstep now you might speak with him on video chat.
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Obviously telemedicine and teleradiology are near and dear to our hearts. That’s because we truly believe in the numerous benefits of providing telemedicine to people all over the world. If you’re not exactly sure what telemedicine means it’s simply medical services provided without a doctor physically present.
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Injuries are nothing new for professional athletes. Whether basketball, football, baseball or soccer, injuries pretty much come with the territory. Some injuries are career-enders others require a little rest and rehabilitation. But what every injury has in common is the need for a second opinion.
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We hear stories all the time about people being diagnosed with cancer or other life-threatening medical conditions. Just browse the internet for a few minutes and you can easily find someone coping with a disease or just being diagnosed and learning about their condition. Check out this story about a woman who learned she has breast cancer.
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Did you read the story about a 30-year old man who died in the Emergency Room reportedly after waiting 8 hours to see a doctor? John Verrier showed up at Saint Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx complaining of a rash. A hospital worker found him dead in the waiting room 8-hours later.
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Medical misdiagnoses are much more common than you might think. Take the woman who died in New York City earlier this year. For two years, she searched for answers to her medical problems. She was told it was asthma when it was really lung cancer. Multiple medial errors and a delayed cancer diagnosis ultimately led to her death. 
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Imagine being diagnosed with cancer and being told you have to wait more than six weeks to have crucial tests performed. That’s what happened to more than 5,200 cancer patients in the United Kingdom. A watchdog group blames it on the government’s massive reorganization of the health services department in the United Kingdom.
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Most of us know in order to succeed we have to fail every now and then. The same goes for doctors who make medical mistakes. But in these cases the consequences can be the difference between life and death.
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