This is an email I had gotten as a result of sending out an email to a group of friends about a new medication assistance website. This email truly illustrate the problem many people face with trying to access medical…

I just don’t think that there are enough doctors anymore. I work in an ER and when the patients leave I know it could take months for them to see a specialist, not because they are waiting for approval from…

Police and EMTs are usually first on the scene of an accident, and the first thing they do is remove the victim?s seat belt.

Accident victims are often disoriented or unconscious and it is crucial to bring them the proper medical…

I have worked in the counseling profession for many years and keep coming across the same problem. This is simply a person with no insurance and little or no money in need of a surgery however he or she must…

I am seeing something that disturbs me a great deal. I’m not high in the hospital pecking order or chain of command, but I have been working in the field of health care for 30 years. I believe there is…

A major problem in American Medicine is the managed care concept of “medical necessity”…always used against the patient…s/he gets the insurance coverage in good faith, believes that s/he is protected, and finds that “medical necessity” is used to deny care.…

In my area there are no HMOs, just PPOs.

I’ve found many patients will switch to a doctor in the network rather than going to a doctor they had seen before and either their insurance was changed or the doctor dropped…

Proponents of a universal single payer healthcare system in the U.S. tend to believe that healthcare is a human right, not a commodity. I agree. We would never allow our law enforcement, highway, judicial, water, and innumerable other public services…