Posted on April - 01 - 2011
When I walked into my patient’s hospital room, she was sitting on the bedside commode, a frail, elderly woman with sunken eyes, thin blonde hair and skinny legs.
For nearly two weeks at home, she had been having five to 10 bowel movements a day.
My patient’s diagnosis was not a mystery. A stool test on admission was positive for Clostridium difficile diarrhea, or C. difficile in short.
Few people know C. difficile — a bacterial infection that is often a consequence of overuse of antibiotics. Antibiotics kill bad bacteria, but they also annihilate the natural gut flora, and this allows C.
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Posted on March - 28 - 2011
Today, medical billing and coding field is known as one of the most rapidly developing in the medical industry in the United States. The demand for qualified medical billing specialists and qualified medical coders is increasing year by year. At the same time, the expectation of employers increases too. Unlike in the past, requirements for patient records have become more stringent. Professionals are required to prepare patient records in a more precise form. With increasing demand and competition, most employers require certification of our days as part of the selection process. Read more…
Posted on March - 25 - 2011
Frank W. Hardy
Feature Writer
Frank was born in Germany to a German mother and American soldier after World War 2. Raised in the USA, he has Captained jets over 10…
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Posted on March - 23 - 2011
John Memmer has struggled with his weight for quite some time, but recently dropped from 300 to 185 pounds.
— John Memmer said his light bulb moment occurred when he couldn’t fit on an amusement park ride with his son.
The 39-year-old auto insurance underwriter from Bloomington, Illinois, was on a family outing at a theme park in Missouri and his son, Alex, desperately wanted him to share a seat next to him.
“The attendant tried to push and squeeze me into the seat, but to no avail. I was too big to fit,” said Memmer.
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