I'd say I have many of the common chronic diseases (high blood pressure, asthma,arthritis) that accompany aging. But I'm an optimistic and busy person, and I don't let myself focus on them. I had my hip replaced two years ago, which I found frightening, and I've blogged about it here: http://www.francine-hipreplacement.blogspot.com. I had to wait until I got old enough for Medicare to do it, because my insurance would not have covered it. This forced me to take a lot of anti-inflammatories that probably haven't helped my gastro-intestinal system.
I am the widow of a physician, and have first hand experience at how bad the health care system in the US has become, for both men and women. That's why another woman and I started http://www.ushealthcrisis.com
When Michelle advised me to take magnesium for my IBS, I listened! now in doing my research I have found that magnesium also helps with diabetes, joint stiffness, spasms, and diabetes. Here's the ...
April 25, 2012 - 9:04am
I finally went to a nutritionist who gave me a blood test called the IGC. This test identifies food sensitivities. It found out I was sensitive to dairy -- not just lactose, but ALL the proteins ...
March 10, 2012 - 12:03pm
After being on LexaPro for fifteen years, I tried very hard to get off it slowly. I thought I did it right, but I ended up with major anxiety attacks and am now back on. Anyone else have this ...
February 18, 2012 - 6:06pm
@awhymommy died last night. She was a mother of two young children, a planetary scientist, a blogger, and an activist for more research and awareness of metastatic breast cancer. I encourage you ...
February 7, 2012 - 9:04am
Yesterday I went to my primary care doctor. The physician assistant said, as she looked at my records, ”you haven’t been here in a while.” I agreed, and the next thing she said was “we have to ...
October 5, 2010 - 11:18am
At lunch yesterday, I was the guest of a group that contained several retired physicians (all male). We listened to a talk by a board member from a large non-profit local hospital system. The ...
May 6, 2010 - 1:18pm
A few years ago, my partners in AHITA.org (a non-profit organized to help providers implement EHRs) and I implemented an electronic health record in a physician practice. Along the way, we ...
January 13, 2010 - 7:51am
Next time you go to a doctor and she sends you for X-rays, scans, or an MRI, give some thought to it before you go. My late husband, a radiologist whose wisdom constantly returns to me during the ...
December 22, 2009 - 8:26am
Will the obstacles never go away? Now people are fighting the Medicare buy-in for uninsured people 55-64. Leave aside for the moment that, as currently structured, buying into Medicare might be ...
December 16, 2009 - 8:13am
I feel compelled to add my voice to all the others talking about mammograms.
I spent years married to a radiologist who did nothing all day but diagnose DCIS and other cancers. He prided ...
November 25, 2009 - 7:13am
Francine explains how a woman can find her hip replacement blog.
November 4, 2009 - 4:47pm
We knew it all along. One third of the dollars spent on health care are wasted, and 22% of that waste is outright Medicare fraud. I don’t know if you saw 60 Minutes last night, but there was an ...
October 28, 2009 - 7:20am
I spent the day at Health 2.0 conference in the Bay Area. This is the third year of the conference, and it has grown from a fringe group of early adopters and application developers to a bona fide ...
October 7, 2009 - 7:27am
My friend has leukemia. She’s laid off. She’s uninsured. She lives alone. She’s scared. But she has been a communications professional in the health care field for 30 years, and writing makes her ...
September 23, 2009 - 7:34am
As our health care debate has overheated, myths about the Canadian health care system abound. The Republicans and the media are using the Canadian system to criticize everything from the public ...
September 9, 2009 - 7:11am
All summer long I’ve been turning myself into an expert on health care reform. I always knew more about health care in the USA than most, because I did the public relations for the first HMO in ...
September 5, 2009 - 7:07am
How can you argue about a reform plan when you don’t even know what will be in it? And yet, town halls go on and on through the hot and lazy last days of summer.
So, as my father used to say, ...
September 2, 2009 - 8:47am
Roger Ebert, famous film reviewer and also a cancer patient, thinks we should enact universal health care because it is morally right. Bill Moyers, 75, is devoting his acclaimed Journal to ...
August 26, 2009 - 9:24am
We’ve gotten away from the notion of real health care reform, I notice, and are just concentrating on insurance reform. But insurance reform doesn’t control costs, and doesn’t make Americans ...
August 17, 2009 - 1:33pm
Like everything else in Washington, health care reform discussions seem to have devolved into “left” vs. “right” and talking heads. Attributed to the left is the wish for a public plan. Attributed ...
August 5, 2009 - 7:51am
I just flew East to visit a Vedic scholar from Vrindavan, India who is teaching a summer session at Rutgers. He’s a friend, and I asked him how he found the United States on this visit compared to ...
July 29, 2009 - 7:34am
Here's what you need to know about worst case scenarios
My husband died from prostate cancer, which they are now debating about screening for. He was young too; 65 when he died, 59 when ...
July 24, 2009 - 3:53pm
As the Beltway postures about health care reform, slowing it down so the vested interests can either be preserved intact or get all their favorite amendments into the legislation, 46 million ...
July 22, 2009 - 7:18am
This morning, a medical malpractice attorney who had written a book called, “The Life You Save,” appeared on the Today Show. That should be a signal to us how prevalent medical errors have ...
July 15, 2009 - 8:47am
The health care industry is spending about $1.5 million a day on lobbying efforts in Congress. Most of those dollars are spent fighting against the threat of “rationing.” That doesn’t count the ...
July 8, 2009 - 8:11am
The new Pew study on the impact of the Internet on American life came out last week, and as usual, someone, @mrinaldesai to be exact, Tweeted it and I found it :-) Yes, this is what Twitter is ...
June 24, 2009 - 7:44am
Single Payer - Not necessarily socialized medicine. Not even necessarily the government. Just means one set of uniform paper work to one entity with common standards.
Could be very ...
June 17, 2009 - 7:16am
We’ve been watching President Obama walk back from a number of his campaign promises lately. And now we are watching the health care industry back off from the premise of the May 11th Summit, ...
June 3, 2009 - 7:35am
OK. I’m officially freaked out by what is happening around health care reform after watching Bill Moyers’ Journal.
Link: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/05222009/watch.html
Single payer, ...
May 27, 2009 - 7:57am
The Obama administration is serious about health care reform and about getting support for it. This was in my inbox this morning from Jenny Backus, probably because I held a health care meeting in ...
May 20, 2009 - 8:48am
Senator Merkin from Oregon wrote a piece in the Huffington Post yesterday that deserves your attention. You have to be concerned enough to remember when Frank Luntz, noted Republican pollster, ...
May 8, 2009 - 5:06pm
Francine explains if she is concerned about dislocated her new hip since receiving her hip replacement.
May 7, 2009 - 2:33pm
Francine describes how focusing on the breath, learned through yoga, has improved her overall health.
May 7, 2009 - 2:28pm
Listen, as Francine provides resources for women interested in learning more about yoga.
May 7, 2009 - 2:25pm
Listen, as Francine explains how yoga has beneficially altered her life.
May 7, 2009 - 2:21pm
Francine describes how she discovered yoga.
May 7, 2009 - 2:17pm
Francine explains how water aerobics can help a woman safely get in shape before hip replacement surgery.
May 7, 2009 - 1:57pm
Francine gives advice for women who need a hip replacement, but are scared to undergo surgery.
May 7, 2009 - 1:52pm
Francine recalls when her hip replacement occurred and if she still experiences discomfort.
May 7, 2009 - 1:49pm
Francine recalls the post-operative restrictions she was given following hip replacement surgery.
May 7, 2009 - 1:45pm
Francine describes how yoga helped her recover from hip replacement surgery.
May 7, 2009 - 1:40pm
Francine explains how she chose a physical therapist after having her hip replaced.
May 7, 2009 - 1:36pm
Francine recalls how she strengthened her gluteus medius, the muscle that rotates the hip, after hip replacement surgery.
May 7, 2009 - 1:28pm
Francine describes when she was able to walk naturally after having her left hip replaced.
May 7, 2009 - 1:22pm
Francine explains how long she had to wait before she was given medical permission to drive after having her hip replaced.
May 7, 2009 - 1:18pm
After being on LexaPro for fifteen years, I tried very hard to get off it slowly. I thought I did it right, but I ended up with major anxiety attacks and am now back on. Anyone else have this ...
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