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My local newspaper, The Roanoke Times, recently published an article by Dr. Michael Camardi, an internal medicine doctor who spends a large portion of his professional time treating elderly patients in our area. The article (“Include the Patient When Selecting a Nursing Home“) starts out describing a family at wit’s end in caring for an…

Do you remember in Star Wars when Princess Leia says “Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope?” Well where do you turn when nursing homes continue to require families to sign arbitration contracts, without proper instruction as to what the contracts mean? “Help me Congress – you are our only hope!” Legislation Eliminates Mandatory…

I subscribe to a few blogs myself and this post caught my eye this morning:Doctor misses 32 lb. cyst. Why and how could he miss that? Apparently he said she was overweight. Could they remove it? YES – along with her ovaries, womb and fallopian tubes. And the physician is still practicing, although in New…

Why can’t nursing homes take good care of our family members? The corporations which own these facilities are making plenty of money. Is there a good reason why they cannot spend some of that money on patient care? The latest sign of the times comes from West Virginia. The estate of woman who died from…

There has been a great deal of press in our local papers (and National) about non-profit health care providers…. So What essentially is the difference between non-profit or for profit? Non-Profit: Tax Exempt – does not pay property taxes No Shareholders Has a Board of Directors (which is usually not paid for service) Must have…

Most Americans know by now that doctors get all kinds of “freebies” from the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. Besides the possible illegality of the situation, it makes me question the safety of the drugs and devices used by those doctors. If the products were so good…the manufacturers would not have to “purchase” their use…

A recent article in the WallStreet Journal highlighted a local hospital’s efforts to collect from unpaying hospital customers. This came as no surprise to me as I have had to wait in local general district court rooms for hours, to have my case called behind the hospital collection cases. And these weren’t families that owed…

Prostate cancer occurs when cells in the prostate gland grow out of control. There are often no early prostate cancer symptoms, but some men have urinary symptoms and discomfort. Prostate cancer treatment options are surgery, chemotherapy, cryotherapy, hormonal therapy, and/or radiation. In some instances, doctors recommend “watchful waiting.” Prostate cancer kills thousand of patients every…