Answers To Diseases

The following is the first in a series of original guest columns by the American Medical Association.
by J. James Rohack, M.D.

Contracting salmonella infection is not soon forgotten. Salmonella is a bacteria that some animals are known to carry. Salmonella can be present in numerous foods, as well as through other sources. You will find the salmonella bacteria in water, raw meat, and eggs.

My mother was around my age when she started having migraines. I’m starting to consider the fact that some of my splitting headaches recently are the result of monthly hormone changes.

Editor’s Note: The post below by E. Richard Brown, Gerald F. Kominski, and Steven P. Wallace discusses the lessons of Medicare for the new public health insurance that Congress is considering creating as part of comprehensive health reform. It complements a study published today in Health Affairs by Commonwealth Fund researchers discussing how consumers rate [...]

Paying physicians via capitation was soundly rejected by patients when it was tried in the HMO era a decade ago.
Massachusetts is trying again. According to a state commission, they recommend “replacing fee-for-service with a system that would use a single payment to cover most of a persons care for an entire year.”

According a recent study, 50 percent of physicians who go online for professional reasons use Wikipedia to answer health questions, and the number of doctors who this popular user-generated web encyclopedia has doubled over the past year.
The explanation for this is simple. Doctors, like everybody else, often turn to search engines like Google to quickly [...]

A few zealous single-payer advocates, Physicians for a National Health Program included, were arrested this past week for disrupting Senate hearings.
Pictured here is psychiatrist Dr. Carol Paris, who was among the doctors arrested.

Here are some of the more interesting comments readers have left recently.
1. Anonymous on whether emergency physicians best served to staff urgent care centers:As an ED doc, I understand the problem. We are taught to always rule out the emergencies, and I am constantly worrying about the worst case scenario, and likely will order more [...]