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Jane Sarasohn-Kahn
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn		 Health literacy isn’t just about understanding clinical directions for self-care, such as how to take medications prescribed by a doctor, or how to change a bandage and clean an infected area. It's also about how to effectively navigate one’s health system…and that skill is in short-supply…
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Carol Cronin
Carol Cronin		 Most people still assume that they don’t need to worry about the quality of the care they receive, whether it is from a doctor, in a hospital or in a nursing home. It’s pretty frightening to realize that you do have to care about it, because it means you have to assume the burden. If quality does vary, you have to do the research. This is hard to deal with when you are upset.
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CFAH Staff
CFAH Staff		 Join @jessiegruman, Otis Brawley MD, Executive VP of ACS and other experts on Twitter today at 2PM with ABC's @DrRichardBesser for a Tweetchat about overtesting and overtreating in health care. Use hash tag #abcdrbchat.
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Michael Millenson
Michael Millenson		 Is the New York Giants bathroom more sanitary than your hospital room? Could be. And that player cleanliness may even have helped send the team to the Super Bowl.
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Trudy Lieberman
Trudy Lieberman

Cash Rewards from Your Health Plan

Monday, 01.30.2012   6:06 PM
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care has moved deeper into the business of transforming health care into a commodity governed by the rules of the marketplace. Plan members can get cash rewards….if they use facilities for outpatient medical procedures and diagnostic testing recommended by the health plan, not their doctors.
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Douglas Kamerow
Douglas Kamerow		 I propose that people stop wearing headphones when they are out in public...More serious than harming your hearing...it appears that earphone use in public can actually endanger your life.
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 Gail HuntThis interview with Gail Hunt is the first in a series of brief chats between CFAH president and founder, Jessie Gruman, and health care experts - among them our CFAH Board of Trustees - who have devoted their careers to helping people find good health care and make the most of it....Read More

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