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Holding on for Now
Creativity, Determination needed to cover Tennessee's Uninsured
It's a statistic that is becoming a daily part of doing business for healthcare professionals in Tennessee: one in three Tennesseans spent at least part of 2008 without health insurance.
SCOTT BROOKS |
Clinically Speaking
If You Don't Ask, They Won't Tell
Physicians diagnose only one in eight Americans who have experienced urinary incontinence. On average, women wait 6.5 years from the first time they exhibit signs of bladder control problems until they obtain a diagnosis, and men are less likely to be diagnosed than women.
MICHELE WEBB, PT, DPT |
The Bottom Line: More Flexing For Better Health
We talked last month about the benefits of flexible work schedules in reducing costs and improving employee morale, but is your business taking advantage of flexible spending accounts to reduce taxes for both you and your employees?
BILL MORRIS |
Literary Examiner
"Match Day" by Brian Eule and "Medical Myths That Can Kill You" by Nancy L. Snyderman, MD
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Women Have More Healthcare Options
Women deal with a variety of special healthcare issues, ranging from continence to uterine fibroids to ovarian cancer, and physicians and organizations throughout East Tennessee are offering quality care and support through all of these health problems that women face.
MEGAN NORRIS JONES |
Health Consequences and the Climate Crisis
One of the goals of East Tennessee State University's Leading Voices in Public Health Series is to encourage attendees to ponder, explore, and debate public health issues, and with the recent visit to Johnson City by former Vice President Al Gore, that goal was far exceeded. On March 26th, Gore, invited by long time friend Elliot Moore from Mountain States Health Alliance, opened by expressing his delight in being back in the East Tennessee region.
BRIDGET GARLAND |
Physician Spotlight: Evelyn Sevilla, MD
Multilingual, classical guitarist-trained, opera buff—not the typical description one would expect to hear of a Knoxville neurologist, but Evelyn Sevilla, MD, is not your ordinary physician. Sevilla, who owns her own neurology practice in West Knoxville, also dabbles on the piano, plays tennis, hikes, gardens, and bikes often.
BRIDGET GARLAND |
Administrator's Corner: Pam Bridges
With dedication, intensity, and a standard of mastery, Administrator Pam Bridges conducts business at Fort Sanders OB/GYN much in the same way that she has devoted herself to the study of piano throughout her life.
CHELSEA FARNAM |
Administrator's Corner: Kathy Ownbey
In the world of healthcare administration, even in our society's general workforce, Kathy Ownbey is a rare find. While many trudge to work every morning, Ownbey, the clinical coordinator of University OB-GYN Center, happily makes the commute from Cleveland to Chattanooga five days every week. What inspires such unique enthusiasm? "Part of it is my faith. I believe if you are able to work, you should work," explained Ownbey.
BRIDGET GARLAND |
Physician Spotlight: Robert Geer, MD
For Robert Geer, MD, medicine and mountains are passions. As the co-founder of Holston Medical Group (HMG) and a physician in HMG's Urgent Care Clinic, medicine is a large part of his life. As an extreme hiker and technical mountaineer, life becomes a walk with God.
BRIDGET GARLAND |
Administrator's Corner: Charlene Ehret
This may surprise most people, but Charlene Ehret, Director of the Mountain Home VA Medical Center since 2003, finished an Ironman® Triathlon at the age of 44 and has run over a dozen marathons. And, for those of us who haven't looked into becoming an Ironman, the race includes a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride, and 26-mile marathon.
MELISSA BRIGHT |
The Four New Realities of Financial Security
Investors have truly been challenged in the last 18 months by the stock market and the economy. We have entered a new era of American finance–and really a new era of world finance. We have ended an era of greed, and now find ourselves in an era of caution–as in we really need to proceed with caution.
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