Comments for Med School Ponderings http://goron32.wordpress.com What was I thinking?!?! Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:30:37 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Consumer Driven Health Plan? by Mona Lori http://goron32.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/consumer-driven-health-plan/#comment-56 Mona Lori Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:30:37 +0000 http://goron32.wordpress.com/?p=51#comment-56 I completely agree that CDHPs can reduce overall health care costs, increase innovation, encourage competition, improve services and improve patient care. The real challenge is educating consumers and getting people involved in making informed choices about their own personal health care decisions. Most insurance plans do not provide relevant and useful tools to help consumers make informed cost-effective choices and determine the best value BEFORE visiting a provider. Many internet tools are available to look-up prices for health care services and read doctor reviews, but all these tools lack relevant data. If insurers agreed to lift the veil on secret contracted prices--- and make this information public, the industry would be able to develop meaningful tools to help consumers comparison shop for value just like we do today using eBay, Amazon.com and Travelocity.com. Mona Lori Founder www.Outofpocket.com I completely agree that CDHPs can reduce overall health care costs, increase innovation, encourage competition, improve services and improve patient care.

The real challenge is educating consumers and getting people involved in making informed choices about their own personal health care decisions.

Most insurance plans do not provide relevant and useful tools to help consumers make informed cost-effective choices and determine the best value BEFORE visiting a provider.

Many internet tools are available to look-up prices for health care services and read doctor reviews, but all these tools lack relevant data.

If insurers agreed to lift the veil on secret contracted prices— and make this information public, the industry would be able to develop meaningful tools to help consumers comparison shop for value just like we do today using eBay, Amazon.com and Travelocity.com.

Mona Lori
Founder
http://www.Outofpocket.com

]]> Comment on A Death in the WVSOM family by Mark Neubauer http://goron32.wordpress.com/2007/05/15/a-death-in-the-wvsom-family/#comment-55 Mark Neubauer Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:25:58 +0000 http://goron32.wordpress.com/2007/05/15/a-death-in-the-wvsom-family/#comment-55 Britt was a close freind an neighbor while growing up in CT. I will always remember him as a leader-by-example. He'll always be that fun loving, good kid to me! I'll never forget him. Britt was a close freind an neighbor while growing up in CT. I will always remember him as a leader-by-example. He’ll always be that fun loving, good kid to me! I’ll never forget him.

]]> Comment on Socialized Medicine by christianliberal http://goron32.wordpress.com/2007/09/16/socialized-medicine/#comment-54 christianliberal Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:56:38 +0000 http://goron32.wordpress.com/2007/09/16/socialized-medicine/#comment-54 Estimates are we could save about a third on our health care premiums just by switching to universal health care. Other industrialized nations spend about 11% of their GNP on health care, while the US spends over 16%, and it's estimated to reach 20% real soon. Switching to universal health care would save Americans about $700 billion a year. Besides, it's just THE RIGHT THING TO DO. You take care of your citizens. http://www.nchc.org/facts/cost.shtml Facts on the Cost of Health Insurance and Health Care Estimates are we could save about a third on our health care premiums just by switching to universal health care.
Other industrialized nations spend about 11% of their GNP on health care, while the US spends over 16%, and it’s estimated to reach 20% real soon.
Switching to universal health care would save Americans about $700 billion a year.
Besides, it’s just THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
You take care of your citizens.
http://www.nchc.org/facts/cost.shtml
Facts on the Cost of Health Insurance and Health Care

]]> Comment on A Death in the WVSOM family by Big Jeff http://goron32.wordpress.com/2007/05/15/a-death-in-the-wvsom-family/#comment-52 Big Jeff Sat, 24 May 2008 18:02:40 +0000 http://goron32.wordpress.com/2007/05/15/a-death-in-the-wvsom-family/#comment-52 Brenna and Devon: It's difficult for me to put into words what your dad meant to me. It is hard for me to write this as I feel my words can not do him justice. A year has passed since Brit has left, and I still find it difficult to accept that he is gone. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of your dad. I first met Britt in the gym at TJU while playing a pick up hockey game and offered him a ride home after the game. We immediately bonded and became fast friends. We both shared a passion for the game of hockey and he became my right defensive partner on the ice. When I am on the ice now,and I look over to my right, I see Britt. I love the NY Islanders and hate their cross town rival Rangers. Everyone knows that Britt was a die hard Ranger fan. I am now the proud owner of a white #2 NY Ranger home sweater that hangs on the wall in my house in his honor. Despite his illness, he always talked about Kathy and his girls, how proud he was of their accomplishments, and how much he loved them. I also had the privilege of knowing him professionally( a brilliant physician) and as a good friend( my second brother). I was honored to have him as a part of my life and he will always live on in my heart! Your friend- Big Jeff Brenna and Devon:
It’s difficult for me to put into words what your dad meant to me. It is hard for me to write this as I feel my words can not do him justice.
A year has passed since Brit has left, and I still find it difficult to accept that he is gone. There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think of your dad.
I first met Britt in the gym at TJU while playing a pick up hockey game and offered him a ride home after the game. We immediately bonded and became fast friends. We both shared a passion for the game of hockey and he became my right defensive partner on the ice. When I am on the ice now,and I look over to my right, I see Britt. I love the NY Islanders and hate their cross town rival Rangers. Everyone knows that Britt was a die hard Ranger fan. I am now the proud owner of a white #2 NY Ranger home sweater that hangs on the wall in my house in his honor.
Despite his illness, he always talked about Kathy and his girls, how proud he was of their accomplishments, and how much he loved them. I also had the privilege of knowing him professionally( a brilliant physician) and as a good friend( my second brother).
I was honored to have him as a part of my life and he will always live on in my heart!
Your friend-
Big Jeff

]]> Comment on A Death in the WVSOM family by susan williams http://goron32.wordpress.com/2007/05/15/a-death-in-the-wvsom-family/#comment-51 susan williams Sat, 24 May 2008 13:42:54 +0000 http://goron32.wordpress.com/2007/05/15/a-death-in-the-wvsom-family/#comment-51 So many suffer depression in silence, expending a lot of energy to be "normal", to be there for others. Although I did not know him, from all that is said above he must have been a remarkable man with a capacity for joy. I can't help but think, from my own experiences at WVSOM, that no one was truly watching out for him with the caring eye that he had, that it was easier for those at that institution to go along with the surface that he seemed so dedicated to not living on with/for others. His arrival at WVSOM was one of great difficulty from what I have heard which makes it all the more unbelievable that people chose to turn a blind eye. So many suffer depression in silence, expending a lot of energy to be “normal”, to be there for others. Although I did not know him, from all that is said above he must have been a remarkable man with a capacity for joy.
I can’t help but think, from my own experiences at WVSOM, that no one was truly watching out for him with the caring eye that he had, that it was easier for those at that institution to go along with the surface that he seemed so dedicated to not living on with/for others. His arrival at WVSOM was one of great difficulty from what I have heard which makes it all the more unbelievable that people chose to turn a blind eye.

]]> Comment on A Death in the WVSOM family by devon sanford http://goron32.wordpress.com/2007/05/15/a-death-in-the-wvsom-family/#comment-50 devon sanford Mon, 05 May 2008 22:28:57 +0000 http://goron32.wordpress.com/2007/05/15/a-death-in-the-wvsom-family/#comment-50 Britt was my Dad. Reading all of these comments and responces to my dad's death is really amazing. I remember, even when i was little, how intrested he was in ALL of his classes and his lectures and pictures and tests. He always had an intreset in everyone of his students. I rember walking into his office at one time to find him memorizing a list of his student's names. And another time when he had Brenna and I come into one of his lectures at Jeff to sing the spongebob theme song. He also had my sistre and I come into the disection room to examine a brain, and even catch a glimpse of a body. As most of you know him as a teacher, sports fanatic, and genrous loving guy, he was also a AMAZING and fanominal father. And as most of you said how he never showed signs of his depression- it was always the same in the house. He tried with all of his strength to be the happy and loving dad he always believed he could be. And he was. Its been almost a year to the day and i miss him.. so much. But he deserves to be rembered as the great amazing man and dad he was, and not morned over his lose. He's in a better place now, im sure of it. And i htink that he desereves to be lived on through stories and memories we all have of him. For all of the things he's done for some many different people, i am so prooud of him. I love him so much. And he will ALWAYS be missed. Britt was my Dad. Reading all of these comments and responces to my dad’s death is really amazing. I remember, even when i was little, how intrested he was in ALL of his classes and his lectures and pictures and tests. He always had an intreset in everyone of his students. I rember walking into his office at one time to find him memorizing a list of his student’s names. And another time when he had Brenna and I come into one of his lectures at Jeff to sing the spongebob theme song. He also had my sistre and I come into the disection room to examine a brain, and even catch a glimpse of a body.
As most of you know him as a teacher, sports fanatic, and genrous loving guy, he was also a AMAZING and fanominal father. And as most of you said how he never showed signs of his depression- it was always the same in the house. He tried with all of his strength to be the happy and loving dad he always believed he could be. And he was.
Its been almost a year to the day and i miss him.. so much. But he deserves to be rembered as the great amazing man and dad he was, and not morned over his lose. He’s in a better place now, im sure of it. And i htink that he desereves to be lived on through stories and memories we all have of him. For all of the things he’s done for some many different people, i am so prooud of him. I love him so much. And he will ALWAYS be missed.

]]> Comment on A Death in the WVSOM family by Amanda http://goron32.wordpress.com/2007/05/15/a-death-in-the-wvsom-family/#comment-43 Amanda Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:22:29 +0000 http://goron32.wordpress.com/2007/05/15/a-death-in-the-wvsom-family/#comment-43 I will miss him I will miss him

]]> Comment on A Death in the WVSOM family by Brenna http://goron32.wordpress.com/2007/05/15/a-death-in-the-wvsom-family/#comment-42 Brenna Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:19:50 +0000 http://goron32.wordpress.com/2007/05/15/a-death-in-the-wvsom-family/#comment-42 I love him and miss him sooooooo much! I love him and miss him sooooooo much!

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]]> Comment on A Death in the WVSOM family by Dan Schwartz http://goron32.wordpress.com/2007/05/15/a-death-in-the-wvsom-family/#comment-19 Dan Schwartz Sat, 08 Sep 2007 00:36:56 +0000 http://goron32.wordpress.com/2007/05/15/a-death-in-the-wvsom-family/#comment-19 After my first year at Jefferson, I was denied a neurology summer research fellowship by an administrative error. Dr. Sanford called me on my cell phone the next morning and told me, "Dan, I was up all night last night thinking about what happened, and I feel so bad about this. I couldn't sleep at all." And then he offered to split the fellowship between me and another student. Few teachers -- rather, mentors, in this case -- ever care as much about their students as Dr. Sanford. I am eternally thankful to him for everything he has given me and my peers. After my first year at Jefferson, I was denied a neurology summer research fellowship by an administrative error. Dr. Sanford called me on my cell phone the next morning and told me, “Dan, I was up all night last night thinking about what happened, and I feel so bad about this. I couldn’t sleep at all.” And then he offered to split the fellowship between me and another student. Few teachers — rather, mentors, in this case — ever care as much about their students as Dr. Sanford. I am eternally thankful to him for everything he has given me and my peers.

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