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More Harm Than Good? by Dean Metz: An interesting article came out in the British popular press last week that states some chronic low-back pain can be cured by antibiotics. The writing is fairly clear that only certain cases would benefit from this approach and it includes links to the Read More...
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Being an English Versus American Health Consumer by Dean Metz: Last week I got to experience being a consumer in the US health system again. What fun!... not. I have a relative who was an emergent inpatient in a hospital in the southern part of the country. I traveled down to assist my relative at home and be present Read More...
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Dancing Faster and Faster by Dean Metz: New York state has made remarkable changes to the way it's administering Medicaid. The Medicaid Redesign Team has enacted changes that will completely alter the current practices and expectations of both providers and patients. As of May 1, all long-term Read More...
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The Road Paved with Good Intentions by Dean Metz: Last week my ADVANCE colleague, Janey Goude, wrote a piece about the Medicare plan to charge penalties to hospitals with excessive readmission rates. I had to reluctantly agree with her assessment... the plan isn't working the way it should. This is one Read More...
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Showing Our Age by Dean Metz: I read this article on NPR (National Public Radio) about how people of a certain age, which includes me, are less fit than their counterparts of two decades ago. How can this be? With all the advances in knowledge and availability of information, how Read More...
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The Vitamin D Question by Dean Metz: As many readers of this blog know, I'm fairly passionate about fall prevention and have been trying to incorporate my work in that arena into my public health work. The potential impact on our aging population, and cost the rest of us will bear as a result, Read More...
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What's In a Name? by Dean Metz: Leave it to me to be able to apply an episode of "Downton Abbey" to health care! Without creating any spoilers for those who may be catching it at a later time, a situation arose in last night's episode that I have seen play out time and again in health Read More...
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Staying in the Loop by Dean Metz: I've been in my new job nearly four months now. It's going rather well and I like the work that I'm doing. I start traveling fairly extensively starting today. That being said, I'm missing the patient contact. My partner asked me, "What do you love doing?" Read More...
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Selling Change by Dean Metz: I've got my work cut out for me. In two weeks, I start traveling a good amount for my job. The company I work for is expanding dramatically. I'm bringing a new method of care management to partners in upstate New York. I'll be teaching nurses, social Read More...
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Peering Over the Cubicle Wall by Dean Metz: I've been pretty busy at work as of late. Our company is expanding from just New York City to the entire state of New York by the end of next year. That's a lot of training and education to be done. It is also uncharted territory as we adapt our approach Read More...
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The Game is Changing... Fast by Dean Metz: I read with great interest today the post of my fellow blogger and former student intern, Lauren Rosso . Despite my near-constant soapbox routine about the positive aspects of the Affordable Care Act this summer, the words finally sunk in under the tutelage Read More...
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Déjà Vu by Dean Metz: I started my writing career with ADVANCE back in 2006 with an article titled, " Surviving Wilma ." It was a detail of the days and weeks of providing homecare after Hurricane Wilma trashed Fort Lauderdale, FL. Now there's Sandy. New Yorkers tend to have Read More...
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Dramatic Change in Medicare Coverage by Dean Metz: Just yesterday the New York Times reported that Medicare will now provide coverage for chronic conditions, particularly for home care and therapy services. This will have a huge impact on physical therapists. Those cases we would have to discharge due Read More...
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Three Down... by Dean Metz: The Physiotherapy UK 2012 conference was in Liverpool this weekend. As I'm now in New York, I couldn't make it to defend the poster of my research, but I left that task in the capable hands of my second author. Unfortunately, she had some serious family Read More...
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How Do You Say, "Thank you?" by Dean Metz: For the past three years, I've had the wonderful experience of working and living in a world previously unknown to me. I arrived with lots of clinical experience and ideas from home to a place at once familiar and foreign. The language was both comfortable Read More...
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