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How to Spot the Signs of Breast Cancer

More American women are surviving breast cancer, thanks in part to screening tests that can help detect it early. But knowing your own breasts can help you spot changes and report them to your doctor between exams.Here are some signs to look out for.

10 things plastic surgeons won’t tell you

Beauty is more than skin deep — so this is going to hurt. What to know before you and your wallet go under the knife for cosmetic treatments.

Why (some) parents don’t vaccinate

The million-headed dragon of online anger has a great mouthful of fire for parents who don’t vaccinate their kids. But such scolding misses the mark, alienating caring parents who just want t…

Eagle River: You’ve Arrived

Benchmark Medical Group Wants You to Feel Like I Feel For Free

If you have followed me at all you know this has been one heck of a year for me. I have transformed myself completely thanks to Benchmark Medical Group in Windsor. I have lost over 140 lbs and kept it off for over 7 months. The mental and physical transformation has been mind blowing.

What A Marshmallow Says About Your Medical Group’s Future

A medical group can't aggregate capital for its future if it zeros out each year. The compensation plan must be revised.

Structure and Compensation: The Genetic Defect In Medical Groups

It’s one thing to understand that playing to self-interest motivates. Harnessing that self-interest advances the business’ own interests. It’s altogether something else to create a medical group that operates as a collective or in a club-like structure. In that situation, the group members generally put their own interests ahead of the group’s interests. That all … Continue reading

Optimize Your Health with This Prize

You can optimize your health with this giveaway from Magna Pharmaceuticals.

How To Prevent Your Medical Group From Getting Robbed Of Its Staff

Competitors often rob medical groups of their staff. They strip away the current leadership and employ the former group's staff.

Building Value Within Your Medical Group

If you were going to sell your house, you’d make sure that it’s put into decent or even prime shape before listing it, right? After all, you want to sell it for top dollar to the right buyer, one who is likely to close on the deal. Yet many medical group leaders and shareholders don’t … Continue reading

Medical Groups' Two Major Problems

I see two very common problems with medical groups. They move too slow. They do what everyone else does. In this market – a still-sick economy, the push toward ACOs and other so-called “alignment,” and the other ills of Obamacare – many are pushing toward becoming large. But large makes them fragile — prone to … Continue reading

Hospital Pharmacists Have Better Health Behaviors Than Nurses

Among hospital staff, pharmacists report better health behaviors and more participation in workplace health promotion activities than nurses.

Patients need to be the focus of integrated care

Integration within the NHS has historically been structural but from the patient's perspective it has lacked co-ordination, explains Mark Britnell

Needless medical tests not only cost $200 billion, they can do harm

The health care industry thrives on ordering up medical tests and treatments, but some hospitals are urging restraint.

Meet Dr. Fiege: Physician to help further enhance medical efforts

HRT tablets associated with higher risk of blood clots

New research suggests that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) tablets are associated with a higher risk of rare but serious blood clots. - News - PharmaTimes

Putting Always Events at the Center of Patient-Centered Care

Two experts on improving the patient experience describe why the Always Event approach to co-design has spread throughout England.