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Healthy Community, Healthy Initiatives
Morristown/Hamblen County Region Reaching Out
Hamblen County is unique. As part of the Lakeway Area, the region is nestled between the Smoky Mountains, Cherokee Lake, and Douglas Lake. As for locale, the county, centered around the city of Morristown, can boast proudly. As for health initiatives, the county can boaster even more proudly.
BRIDGET GARLAND |
Healthcare Reform Affects Medicare Patients and the Under 65 Set Differently
How to Answer Questions from Your Patients
If you’re a physician, chances are you have already fielded a bevy of questions from patients about healthcare reform. Rest assured, the questions will keep coming. Experts say that doctors need to be up to speed, and fast, about how reform will affect their patients’ healthcare and their insurance options in the future.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
Moral Medicine: Professionalism
As a child, I was scared to go to the doctor. It seemed there was always a nurse lying in wait with a big syringe attached to a bigger needle dripping some syrupy liquid ready to cause me pain. No matter how much my mom reassured me it wasn't going to hurt much, it never turned out that way.
DAVID STEVENS, MD, MA (Ethics) |
East Tennessee Region Welcomes New Hospitals
Despite the current economy and uncertainty surrounding healthcare reform, the East Tennessee region has experienced tremendous growth to its medical community. With the recent addition to the University of Tennessee Medical Center's new heart hospital in Knoxville, as well as the region's first "green" hospital to open in Johnson City, Tenn., healthcare in the Smoky Mountains just keeps getting better.
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Gearing Up for Guatemala
Donations needed for trip to begin July 12.
Part Four in our series following Lisa J. Broyles, MD, as she plans to lead a medical missions trip to Guatemala
Lisa J. Broyles, MD and Brad Broyles |
Enjoying East Tennessee: Making Music!
The "lazy days of summer" are synonymous with July. Whether it's enjoying a parade, outdoor grilling on the 4th, or just spending time around the region close to home in the evenings, the midsummer month is just a little more relaxed and festive.
LEIGH ANNE W. HOOVER |
The Literary Examiner
Reviews of Healing Hearts: A Memoir of a Female Heart Surgeon by Kathy E. Magliato, MD and The Match: 'Savior Siblings' and One Family’s Battle to Heal Their Daughter by Beth Whitehouse
TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER |
Legal Matters: Contracting for Health Information Technology
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act has flooded billions of dollars into health information technology projects. Part of the HITECH Act includes incentive payments through the Medicare and Medicaid programs for meaningful use of electronic medical records and back-end penalties for failing to meet the requirements. Successfully choosing and implementing any health information technology project presents some unique problems...
RANDALL E. SERMONS |
There’s an App for That!
Medical Applications for Mobile Technology are Burgeoning
With mobile technologies advancing, so too are medical uses of those technologies – and the ride has just begun, predicts one expert.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
| Provider/Payer Relations Focus |
Stark Reality
Multi-Specialty Practices Anxiously Await MedPac Recommendations for Imaging
Over the past few years, there has been a gradual chipping away of allowed reimbursements for imaging. Tightening Stark regulations have largely been driven by concern over the rising costs of advanced diagnostic imaging and soaring utilization rates.
CINDY SANDERS |
Physician Spotlight: Sonya Clark, MD
Nothing slows down Sonya Clark. Whether she is skiing the slopes, trekking triathlons, paddling in her kayak, or being a mother to her 7-year-old, Clark understands firsthand why her patients need to be back in full health.
CHELSEA FARNAM |
Administrator's Corner: Early Mornings Equal Success for Morristown-Hamblen Hospital's Dedra Whitaker
Being a hospital administrator invariably entails organization, a keen sense of the proverbial "big picture," and, perhaps most of all, time-management skills. Considering the spate of staff and physicians, the deluge of ever-shifting regulations and red tape, and the sheer volume of tasks, it's a wonder that anyone has the tenacity required for such a demanding position. For Dedra Whitaker, Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer of Morristown-Hamblen Hospital, meeting all of the aforementioned demands on a daily basis can only work when she rises before dawn—every wearying day of the week.
JOHN SEWELL |
Physician Spotlight: Anuj Chandra, MD
Anuj Chandra, MD, is constantly on the move… running his own practice in sleep medicine in three offices in Chattanooga, Cleveland and North Georgia; reading sleep studies for most major hospitals in the area; and traveling to India, where he teaches and serves on the organizing committee for a physician education course that is bringing cutting edge sleep medicine to cities across India.
Rich Bailey |
Physician Spotlight: Cary H. Meyers, MD, FACC, FACS
"If you go back ten years, when I was a resident, when we saw people with venous disease, it wasn't ignored, but it was completely de-emphasized," explained Cary H. Meyers, MD, a board-certified surgeon with Cardiovascular Associates (CVA). "There really were no treatment options for patients, or for physicians, beyond surgical vein stripping, and with that, the patients would come back, and they would be miserable. They also had to be hospitalized for several days."
BRIDGET GARLAND |
Administrator's Corner: KJ Gulson
First impressions say a good deal about a person. For KJ Gulson—young, enthusiastic, dedicated—are just some of the attributes that stand out upon meeting her. As the administrator for primary care and internal medicine with Blue Ridge Medical, such qualities make her shine in her management role of nine clinics throughout East Tennessee...
BRIDGET GARLAND |
Loss of Limb does not mean Loss of Life
Adding quality of life to all amputees requires a deeper commitment to patients
In the solitude of the exam room of her vascular surgeon’s office, an eighty-six-year-old grandmother of ten tries to hide the tear forming at the corner of her eye. Her stoic strength has always been a lighthouse in the ebbing challenges facing her family. With her husband’s passing a few years ago, she has continued to carry the mantle of leadership for her clan.
Paul Dixon, CP |
Physician to Physician: Progress in the Treatment of Metastatic Liver Cancer
Over 20,000 patients per year are diagnosed with primary or secondary liver cancer. The majority of liver cancers are secondary liver cancers occurring from metastatic spread to the liver from other primary sites. Common sources of metastatic liver cancer are colon, breast, pancreas, lung, and stomach. For many years, the prognosis of metastatic liver cancer was extremely poor. Over the last twenty years, with the development of new surgical and nonsurgical techniques, patients with metastatic liver cancer have effective treatment options which can greatly improve survival while preserving a reasonable quality of life.
Joseph R. Lee, MD |
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