Will your next visit to the doctor be with an independent nurse practitioner? As the need for healthcare providers grows, expanded nurse authority could help meet patient demand.
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Find the Best Medicare Part D or Advantage Plan with Free Website
A local physician, Dr. Steve Cohen, has launched a free website to help people find the best Medicare D or Advantage Plan.
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Mice Offer Key to Understanding Humans and Our Ailments
Great strides are made in biomedical research thanks to a very small ally – mice! From understanding memory to treating cancer, mice help us learn how to heal humans.
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Good Conversations Lead to Good Health
Without good communication between doctors and patients, health suffers. Are you prepared for your next checkup?
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Three Pages Later, Health Insurance?
This October, one of the most contentious creations of the ACA will open for business – state health insurance exchanges.
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March Is Deep Vein Thrombosis Awareness Month
While most blood clots can be detected in a hospital, blood clot-related deaths account for more deaths in America than breast cancer and AIDS. This week, David Martin begins a four-part series on blood clots for Deep Vein Thrombosis Awareness Month.
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Bringing New Doctors into Your Practice
By David Martin, President and CEO of VeinInnovations This month, I was excited to share news about my practice, VeinInnovations. Two new doctors, Dr. David Park and Dr. Alexander Park, are the newest members of our medical staff. In case their names made you wonder, the two are brothers. Before joining VeinInnovations, they operated their […]
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Prevention and Treatment of Varicose and Spider Veins
By David Martin, President and CEO of VeinInnovations My practice, VeinInnovations, specializes in treating venous conditions. This week, I’d like to discuss two common venous conditions, their causes, steps for prevention and treatment. Varicose veins and spider veins will occur in about 50 to 55 percent of women and 40 to 45 percent of men […]
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Exercise over the holidays
By David Martin, President and CEO of VeinInnovations November (September for some eager retailers) kicks off the holiday season. Weeks and weeks of indulging with family and friends means extra calories coupled with more relaxing. Studies once claimed that on average, most people gained five to seven pounds. The news isn’t that bad! In 2007, […]
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HIPAA Risks and Social Media
By David Martin, President and CEO of VeinInnovations Is your practice using social media to stay in touch with patients and reach out to new ones? If so, you’re one of many in the medical community expanding into digital society. The New York Times recently profiled a doctor who goes one step […]
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Why the Nursing Shortage Exists
By David Martin, President and CEO of VeinInnovations Anyone who’s been treated at a hospital knows how important nurses are, and what a large role they play in tending a patient’s needs. A shortage began in 1998 and eased, ironically, as unemployment rose during the recession. Nurses found themselves in need of income, and those […]
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In Office Dispensing
By David Martin, President and CEO of VeinInnovations Let me start off with an quick note on the decline of general practitioners. There is a shortage of general practitioners in the United States, a fact that we wring our hands over periodically. General practitioners are becoming scarce thanks in part to the rising cost in […]
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Preventing Childhood Obesity
By David Martin, President and CEO of VeinInnovations “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of a cure.” Benjamin Franklin is famous for many sayings. Today, this one feels prescient. In Georgia, we spend 2.4 billion dollars on obesity related care. It’s a small but sizable portion of the additional 190 billion spent nationally […]
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Using the Internet to your advantage
By David Martin, President and CEO of VeinInnovations A long time ago, before the Internet, the only way to find a good doctor was to ask a friend. Now the web is littered with sites to match patients with doctors, along with reviews. For a practice like mine, boosting SEO (search engine optimization) is critical. When a […]
