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...didn't treat the carpal tunnel and release the pressure on the nerve in her wrist, and do it soon, she would never get better - the nerve damage would become permanent. Mattie's other problem, triggering, was bad too. It made opening her hand painful and difficult. My patient needed two small operations - just 15 minutes of actual surgery - to cure these problems...
...what so many of us in medicine have been thinking about doing for so long - they said, "No." They responded to yet another insurance-company rate decrease by refusing to accept it altogether. Hospitals can't afford to pay their nurses, buy medicines or give personal attention to each patient, if they're expected to treat so many, so fast, just to break even. Good for them, I thought. But, then, I looked at Mattie, and I looked at my day list of patients - fully half of them had the same kind of insurance...
...what was I supposed to do with this patient? How could I get her to go to my other hospital, so much farther away? And how am I supposed to take care of all the others? There is no answer yet - we're waiting on negotiations between the insurer and the hospital. I twisted some arms for Mattie, and got the insurance company to pay the old rate for her treatment; I'll hopefully get her in soon, but this won't work for every case after hers...
...national conference three years ago, National Institutes of Health Director Elias A. Zerhouni deplored the nation’s efforts in translational science, the process of using basic scientific research to improve patient care. Later that year, Zerhouni announced a major NIH-led initiative to address the problems in translational science, a push that paid off for Harvard this week when the University landed a major grant to fund its efforts in the area, according to a Harvard Medical School spokesman...
...weeding. Unless her children are old enough to do the work for her, there will be less food for the family to eat when the next harvest comes in August. "Then maybe she'll have three malnourished kids instead of one," says Lemukol. In his graphs of annual patient data for the center, he has a column labeled "escaped": some mothers, with other hungry children at home, just walk out, pulling their kids out of treatment before they're medically fit to leave...