Guidance Offered to Help Doctors Deal With ‘Dr. Google’
Communication is key to resolving conflicts when patients have requests based on online searching
New Health Care Index Reports Increases in Consumer Costs
Increase in coverage by public insurance plans, but increasing number of consumers have deductibles
Survival Improving for Women With Ovarian Cancer
Women diagnosed today 50 percent less likely to die than they were in the 1970s
Moderate Costs Incurred by Living Kidney Donors
Longer distance traveled to transplant center significantly linked to higher total costs
Shortened Fasting Feasible for Children Undergoing Surgery
Improves perioperative experience without raising pulmonary aspiration incidence
AMA: Six Traits of Financially Prepared Female Physicians
Traits include having retirement portfolio on track or ahead of schedule, having emergency fund
FDA: Senza Device Relieves Spinal Pain Without Paresthesia
Implanted device treats chronic back pain
High-Value Research of 2014 Presented for Peri-Op Medicine
Authors summarize 2014 studies that are highly relevant to perioperative medicine
Health Care Reform in Mass. Affects Survival in Trauma Patients
No impact on health insurance coverage for patients hospitalized post-injury, but increase in mortality
ACA Tied to Nearly 17 Million Gaining Health Coverage
But many Americans still can't afford medical care
