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How to Provide Help When You Live With a Depressed Person
This is a really good article from Clever about how to help someone you’re living with deal with depression, especially during the lockdown. It has some great suggestions and I urge everyone to go read it. However, I have a minor issue with the article. It already assumes that the person trying to help someone…
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Requiem for a Creator
If you’ve never heard of Steve Cash, he’s the man who created the popular Talking Kitty series on YouTube that mainly stars his cat Sylvester. It was one of the few series I would routinely binge-watch on YouTube on a frequent basis. Here’s one of my favorite videos from the series. (NSFW Language) In the…
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Trench on ‘surprise’ medical charges
Lately, an article from the New York Times about surprise medical charges has been making the rounds on Facebook. Once again people are taking the article at face value without doing any further research. Luckily for you, I’m here to tell you the real deal as I call upon my 20+ years experience in the healthcare…
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Suicide is selfish
So as we all have heard by now a renowned celebrity killed himself recently. When my wife told me the news I said that I don’t get it. She said to me that I of all people should get it. What she means is that I suffer from depression, horribly. Also in my younger years…
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Asthmanefrin: DO NOT BUY
If you suffer from asthma and can’t afford a prescription inhaler you probably lament the loss of the Primatene Mist inhalers. So do I. If you go to your local pharmacy and see a product called Asthmanefrin, that is supposedly designed to replace Primatene, do yourself a favor, avoid it if at all possible. Over…
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Are health insurance companies getting rid of customer service?
The trend among health insurance companies used to be to outsource their customer service overseas. United Healthcare was the biggest proponent of this practice in my opinion. Recently I received word through my job that a national carrier and a large east coast regional carrier are moving towards eliminating customer service reps altogether. I work…
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Most teen mental illness goes untreated
Most Teen Psychiatric Disorders Go Untreated: In a study done by Duke University it was estimated that most teens that have mental illnesses suffer without ever having them treated. I’m not talking about ADD either… Adolescents with ADHD, conduct disorder or oppositional defiant disorder received mental health care more than 70 percent of the time.…
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CDC claims e-cigs marketed towards kids
CDC: Makers of e-cigarettes, little cigars target kids: Since e-cigarettes, or vaporizers as they’re properly known, have helped me quit smoking after 30 years I’ve become somewhat of a vocal proponent of them. If you follow me on Facebook you’ll see I’ll post the occasional article about e-cigs. If it’s a good article I’ll sing…
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Obamacare stifles competition
Little Competition, High Premiums In NC Health Insurance Marketplace: Ok, first I need to get some prefaces out of the way. The first is the usual about I have 20+ years of working in the healthcare administration field. The other is that the article I linked to came out before the October 1st health exchange…
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