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#1 Reason Doctors do not want to treat or become a Medicare patient.

April 17, 2010

#1 Obamacare.

I got this special alert describing the congressional approach to paying doctors for their work.  Basically, decrease pay by more than 21% and hold those payment  for several weeks to discuss it some more.  Maybe the bill will be repealed.  Maybe not.

Special Alert on Obamacare

Official CMS announcement regarding April claims processing
CMS continues to work with Congress towards possible legislative action to extend the zero percent update for the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule.  The zero percent … Continue Reading

Telemedicine Usage Exploding–eICU, daVinci Robotic Surgery

August 6, 2009

James Geiger M.D.–

Get Healthier using your Mobile Smart Phone

Smart phones are evolving rapidly. One day there may well be an specialized application (APS) for everything. Some of the health care oriented APS, include Mobile Phone Click Diagnostics offering a wide variety of consultations services and Airstrip OB which can monitor fetal heart rate and maternal contractions. Major medical concerns can be facilitated, like medication compliance of infectious disease patients with programs like Stop TB. Patients can be given a cell … Continue Reading

Happy Hungry and Horny: Some benefits of Propofol

July 7, 2009

Happy  Hungry and Horny : Some benefits of Propofol.

Anesthesiologists know that propofol has many benefits including the fact that it is practically an ideal anesthetic agent. If Micheal Jackson had been given propofol he would have realized how wonderful an anesthetic agent propofol is as a sleep aide in spite of the fact that is not an FDA approved usage of the drug. Propofol does not induce proper restful REM sleep. The three H’s are very unique benefits that an anesthesia patient can identify and enjoy. Propofol is a white emulsion (1 … Continue Reading

Awareness (not that kind of Awareness) and Anesthesia

March 20, 2009

Awareness and Anesthesia
To arrive at the ideal anesthetic, we need to understand more
about how anesthesia works and how people consent to have anesthesia.
Some types of surgical procedures can and should be accomplished using a
technique called conscious sedation, with monitored anesthesia care. Some
awareness is intended and expected during conscious sedation, so patients
need to be educated and consent to undergo that type of surgery and
anesthesia if indicated. In my experience, many people do not understand
the difference between conscious sedation and general anesthesia when it is
explained before surgery, nor do they remember the discussion after surgery.
Awareness while under the influence of general anesthesia … Continue Reading