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The burnout epidemic is hitting healthcare workers hard

Work Life

Unfortunately, healthcare workers are being especially impacted. Both of us have seen that impact firsthand through our work with healthcare groups. We interviewed workers to better understand why the burnout epidemic is hitting healthcare workers so hard. And microstress is truly unrelenting for those in healthcare.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 1, Part 2)

Mad in America

Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. This distinction is important because the MD is basically a practitioner degree (which is appropriate for the practitioner) and not a research degree, which unfortunately has shaped the quality of healthcare in the 20 th century and beyond. This has resulted in both good and poor healthcare.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 1, Part 1)

Mad in America

Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. ” —attributed to Mark Twain What are some of the sources of much of the poor quality and costly healthcare in the U.S. healthcare (17% of GDP and climbing). The Peterson Center of Healthcare reports that the U.S. healthcare bill is only exceeded by the approximately $3.8

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Preface)

Mad in America

Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. healthcare, primarily “everyday” healthcare. By “ research in healthcare” in this manuscript I am concerned with questions of the science of determining the efficacy and safety of drug and non-drug therapies and whether or not the current FDA standard is adequate or needs major revisions.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 5)

Mad in America

Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. 9 Study 329 was a GSK-sponsored randomized, placebo-controlled, eight-week Paxil and imipramine (i.e., This would be sure terror because most of us, including emotionally normal and most mentally impaired people, are usually capable of maintaining some degree of control over thought and action.

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Run Your Hospital Wellness Program with One Simple Solution

FirLyfe

If you outsource data management to help you store patient health data and records, it’s a risk that’s out of your control. You’ll sleep easier at night knowing FitLyfe 360 is designed with rigorous controls, security standards, and compliance regulations to keep your patient data safe. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

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Wellable And Truth Initiative Team Up Help Employees Quit Smoking

Wellable

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “paying for tobacco use cessation treatment is the single most cost-effective health insurance benefit for adults that can be provided to employees.” Although smokers have been pushed out of sight by smoke-free laws, the costs of smoking remain staggering.