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...spread of disease goes unchecked, researchers estimate that some 388 million people worldwide will die of one or more CNCDs over the next 10 years. The economic cost will be immense. There may be weeks or months of lost work per patient, along with expensive health care, before cardiovascular disease or cancer results in death. CNCDs are projected to cost China, India and Britain $558 billion, $237 billion and $33 billion, respectively, over the next decade...
Maximum Recommended Patient Wait Time...
...tell them to back off.' DANIEL HAUSER, a 13-year-old cancer patient from Minnesota, on critics who say he is too young to determine his course of treatment. Hauser briefly fled the state with his mother to avoid court-ordered chemotherapy, which violates his religious beliefs...
...that the patient I saw today and the one I saw last week both came to me having had MRI scans of their ankles...
There are real savings to be had in cutting down on MRIs - especially unneeded ones. But it's quite hard to keep insured patients who ask for expensive medical tests and treatments from getting them. Blocking a patient who wants something they saw in an advertisement is time-consuming. Teaching the complex truth one on one is a lot harder than convincing large numbers through eye-catching, sound-biting market psychology. It's a money loser too. Most of the time, a patient who has been sold on something you don't want to use will just leave...