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You asked: What to expect when you call an ambulance

If you call 911, what should you expect when an ambulance arrives?Scott Johnson, manager and emergency medical technician-paramedic for North Memorial Ambulance Service - Alexandria, answered a few questions:Q: When should someone call for an ambulance?A: “They can call an ambulance for any medical...

CPR Dummy With Breasts Aims To Overcome Fondling Fears

Is CPR more successful on TV than in real life?

Television characters know how to perform this lifesaving procedure, but many Americans do not.

First Aid Tricks ER Doctors Wish You Knew

From how to stem bleeding to saving a knocked-out tooth, these are the things you really need to know before an emergency even happens.

Disease Care or Health Care?

Chiropractors provide health care. They concern themselves with interference to the system of the body that controls all functions—the nerve system. Vertebral subluxations cause interference to t…

Housing is Health Care—and Health Care Can Build Housing

Traditionally, the housing and health care industries have viewed one another as distinct. This distinction has prohibited us from seeing our broader intersections with economic, social and racial equity—and the solutions.

Should we intubate patients during cardiopulmonary resuscitation?

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Why is collaboration missing in health care?

Collaboration by health care professionals is an essential element.

Is There a Right to Health Care?

Saying people have a right to health care is based on a conceptual confusion.

What to look for in a health care proxy

A health care proxy, also sometimes known as an agent or the person named in your healthcare power of attorney, is going to make decisions for you when necessary. Using a medical power of attorney is a very common part of estate planning. You get to select the person who can make medical choices if

Attacks on health care questions and answers

Machine Learning in Home Health Care: The Rewards and the Risks

Machine learning has the potential to greatly aid in home health care, but cyber liability insurance is necessary to protect against the added risks.

Health Care Stocks: Are They More Speculative?

Health care stocks may no longer be a defensive play for investors.

How to Be an Educated Health Care Consumer

With health care costs on the rise, it’s more important than ever to take responsibility for your medical care choices. Asking questions and researching

Benefits of Home Health Care for Seniors

Focus on Health Care Jobs is Misguided

But voices inside the medical community now seem to agree with AIM that the focus on health-care jobs is misguided.

Are You Subsidizing Health Care Subsidy?

As an insurance agent, specifically for this blog, health insurance; I am inundated with information regarding health care costs and questioned about the tax and cost implications thereof. From a statistical perspective, or in the insurance world, actuarial statistics- the increase in health care costs are directly influenced by the increase in risk. In other words, the fact that people are no longer underwritten for health care policies for certain...Read More

Where Is "Health" in Health Care Discussions?

Language matters, and most of the talk (and writing) about health care unfortunately leaves out people’s health.

Is Health Care Cost Transparency the Answer?

NEJM Catalyst Insights Council members say that while health care cost transparency for patients might be necessary, we have to change the way care is delivered.

Will Health-Care Law Beget Entrepreneurs?

Thousands of would-be entrepreneurs want to start their own businesses, but are shackled to their current employer by the need for affordable health insurance. The health-care law could ease this 'job lock' in coming years.