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		<title>What Would You Do? What Others Said.</title>
		<link>http://doctorblue.wordpress.com/2009/07/19/what-would-you-do-what-others-said-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(The next in a series of blogs on my quest for competent health care.)
What would you do to get treatment for a rare disease treatable with penicillin that seemingly no U.S. doctor is familiar with? What would you do to get treatment now that your funds have been depleted on living expenses, futile doctor visits, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=doctorblue.wordpress.com&blog=5488405&post=268&subd=doctorblue&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Health Care Reform The Lesser of Two Poor Choices?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 23:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t think anyone knows if government-run or private-run health care is the answer. Both seem to be the lesser of two poor choices for a variety of reasons. Central among the reasons is the lack of focus on patient outcomes (quality of care) and the need to replace the practice of specialists handing off [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=doctorblue.wordpress.com&blog=5488405&post=222&subd=doctorblue&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Defense of Healthcare Reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 02:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama could gain more support for his proposed health care reforms if the government actually enforced existing laws.
Under our current system, I believe medical insurance companies have vicarious liability for the negligence of their network providers. Calling the insurance companies to the carpet for the negligence of its providers would expose reasons for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=doctorblue.wordpress.com&blog=5488405&post=217&subd=doctorblue&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Story #19: VA Workers Compensation Claim</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received an email the other day from a friend who suggested I seriously consider filing a medical malpractice suit for failure to diagnose, medical errors and uninformed consent. She referenced a website advertising free assessment of cases anywhere in the U.S.
I had already contacted a dozen local law firms to file a medical malpractice [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=doctorblue.wordpress.com&blog=5488405&post=162&subd=doctorblue&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Overview: Replace The Caduceus</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Based on my experience, I feel the caduceus medical symbol should be replaced with a picture of a physician with his arms crossed over his chest and his index fingers pointing in opposite directions.
With no help forthcoming from the medical community in determining what was wrong with me after three years, I decided to try [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=doctorblue.wordpress.com&blog=5488405&post=133&subd=doctorblue&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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