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Best Practices: Advanced Pediatric Surgical Specialists
Offering the Most Complex Pediatric Surgeries in FloridaFaster recovery begins at Advanced Pediatric Surgical Specialists, where Chris Anderson and Bryan Weidner, MDs, have quickly become known throughout the Sunshine State as experts in pediatric care, with a specialty niche in minimally invasive surgical techniques...
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Best Practices: Cause and Effect: Diabetes and Foot Ulcers
The patient may have been a diabetic, but she was also a great-grandmother who dreamed of going on a cruise with her family. One problem stood in her way and she was standing on it – a non-healing foot wound that hampered her mobility. After outpatient therapy at Florida Hospital Fish Memorial's Wound Care and Hyperbaric Center, she recovered and was well enough to travel...
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Best Practices: Advocates for Leg Health
Leg health in our patients is extremely important but often not dealt with aggressively.
Leg Health encompasses arterial, venous, and lymphatic problems as well as degenerative arthritis and muscle issues. Quality of life depends on leg health.
Arterial problems are almost exclusively atherosclerotic in nature. Smoking accounts for 90% of arterial problems with diabetes and hypertension following in the distance. The most common presentation of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is claudication (predictable calf and/or buttock cramping with walking)...
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Doctors and other healthcare professionals are feeling the pain from all sides
Florida-based Dr. B. Gordon needed quick cash-and lots of it. Maxed-out credit, rising overhead and expenses threatened to shut down his practice for good…
One month and four bank rejections later, Dr. B. Gordon (name changed for privacy,) was still stuck…and frustrated. Until he stumbled upon a private equity lender who specialized in medical funding...
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Tis' the Season
With the Holiday Season approaching many of us will be travelling to share time with our friends and loved ones. We laugh, shop, eat, attend parties and do whatever we can to bring joy to the season. Below you will you find a few "Helpful Hints" to protect you and your family from becoming possible victims of fraud and identity theft. Remember: Children are often victims of identity theft too! During the holidays check those credit reports for everyone in the family!
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Multidisciplinary Breast Cancer Clinic
When a patient hears the words "suspicious lesion" after a diagnostic mammogram, the statement is typically followed by an explanation of risk factors, the necessity for further evaluation, a bewildering array of treatment options, therapy side effects and cosmetic implications. A comprehensive plan of care for management of patients with newly diagnosed breast cancer needs to integrate opinions from the surgeon, medical and radiation oncologist...
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Patient Safety Improving but Work Still Needed
Medicare Delivers Ultimatum to End Preventable Mistakes as Hospitals Adopt Low-tech and High-tech Solutions
Hospital associations in at least 12 states, including Florida, urge their members not to charge for serious preventable medical errors dubbed "never events."
But when Medicare announced in October that it wouldn't pay for the same type of mistake, that was a different thing entirely because for the first time the largest healthcare payer will make that determination....
DAVID ROSENFELD |
Off the Hook
Signature Pharmacy Turns Tables After "Drug Dealing" Acquittal
For nearly two years, charges that an Orlando-based pharmacy was the hub of a nationwide drug ring involving the supply of steroids and human-growth hormone brought intense media scrutiny to Central Florida.
On Sept. 11, Judge Stephen W. Herrick dismissed more than two dozen counts against the primary operators of Signature Compounding Pharmacy, a $30 million-per-year family-run business established in 2000. In 2006, with the help of 49 employees, Signature filled 300,000 prescriptions...
LYNNE JETER |
Humana and Florida Hospital Ink New Deal
Medicare Advantage Members to Receive Care at Seven Area Hospitals
Florida Hospital and Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) announced Oct. 14 the two companies had reached an agreement on a new contract that enables Humana's Medicare Advantage members in Central Florida to receive care at Florida Hospital's seven area hospitals in Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties...
LYNNE JETER |
Workouts that Work
Arthritic and Osteopenic Patients Need a Special Exercise Regimen
Jane Fonda was 44 when she popularized the phrase “No pain, no gain” in her first fitness video in 1982.
Chances are she wasn’t thinking about how that phrase could take on a different meaning for people like her who now are in their 70s and painfully aware of their bodies’ limitations...
J.L. WEBB |
Anh-Vu Nguyen, MD
Emergency Room Physician Does Double Duty as an Author
Board certified in emergency and family practice medicine, Anh-Vu Nguyen, MD, FAAFP, was exposed to the world of medicine at an early age through his mother, now a retired orthopedic nurse.
Referring to himself as a "math and science" person, Nguyen, an emergency medicine physician at Bay Pines Veterans Administration Hospital and preceptor for the family practice residency program at St. Petersburg's Bayfront Medical Center, initially thought he was going to be an engineer...
WENDY R. LEVINE GROSS |
Getting Ahead of the Tax Man
The air and the apples are crisp, and football is in full swing. What time is it? Time for some serious tax planning before the end of the calendar year, according to CPA Keith Kamperschroer, immediate past president of Nashville-based HCAA, the National CPA Health Care Advisors Association...
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
Painful Spine Fractures Can Be Fixed Without Major Surgery
Osteoporosis is a major public health threat for an estimated 44 million Americans, 80 percent of whom are women. Advanced age, asthma, diabetes, emphysema, menopause, chronic steroid use and rheumatoid arthritis are all risk factors for osteoporosis. The resultant weakening of bones can lead to compression fractures of the spine causing severe pain, deformity, loss of height, immobilization, and in some cases, failure to thrive...
RICHARD KINARD, MD, INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGIST |
The Diabetic Heart
Scientists Meld Metabolic and Cardiovascular Research
The negative effects of diabetes on heart diseases have been known for years, thanks primarily to comprehensive studies funded by the National Institutes of Health, which provided the evidence physicians and researchers needed to develop better treatments and medications. But most of the questions about why that link exists remain unanswered...
J.L. WEBB |
The Hidden Power of Testosterone
Ask most doctors about testosterone, and they might tell you that this hormone helps transform a boy into a man. Or they might tell you that it helps regulate the sex drive. While that’s all true, doctors are only now beginning to understand the many other vital functions of testosterone in men and women (yes, women)...
DANIEL THOMAS, DO |
Physicians…Own Real Estate
"When I grow up I want to be a doctor. I'll make lots of money and I will help people." Do you remember that dream? Now after many years of school, you are working long hours to make payroll and rent or mortgage payments. You are helping people, but find it difficult because of insurance companies' control over your practice and your patients. How does a successful physician find time to help himself and reach his own goals?...
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