Fast Facts:The average medical school graduate is in $161,000 debt. The now unchallenged Obama-care model creates a 63,000 physician shortage by 2015. Forty-six percent of physicians would NOT choose medicine again as a career.As we move into these unprecedented times in health care, our physicians need our support more than ever. It's hard to ...

(Editor's note: This guest blog is written by Glen McDaniel, a writer and healthcare consultant from Atlanta.) There has been an ongoing debate about the power of vitriolic speech in the aftermath of the shooting tragedy in Tuscon where a gunman killed 6 people and wounded 13 others including a U.S. Congresswoman. Most concede it is difficult to ...

(Editor's Note: October is Health Literacy Month. This guest blog is written by Jimmy Thacker, a respiratory therapist and certified asthma educator.) Low health literacy has a devastating effect on the well-being of Americans. It leads to missed appointments with doctors, medications that are taken incorrectly or not at all, instructions ...

(Editor's note: The following blog is written by Skyler Perkins, a full-time AuD student at ATSU - Arizona School of Health Sciences.) I usually experience healthcare from the provider's point of view, but I recently had the opportunity to experience it from the patient's perspective, and I learned a valuable lesson. During a routine follow-up ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will host a national provider conference call on ''ICD-10 Implementation in a 5010 Environment'' on Tuesday, June 15, from noon to 2 p.m. EST. The conference call will be geared toward medical coders, physician office staff, provider billing staff, health records staff, vendors, ...

Remember those reading comprehension tests in middle school? You'd plow through a passage and then answer questions about the plot. Q: ''Why couldn't the Smiths leave for vacation?'' A: ''They couldn't find Buddy the dog.'' If only life could still be so simple. As adults, we're faced with form after form of archaic language and indecipherable ...