Save your sanity, time & money!

Need solutions for the medication, medical appliances and/or medical travel that you can't afford? READ EMPOWER Yourself.

A Health Information Management professional, I survived a life-threatening emergency with information that only a person of my professional experience would know. And I’m sharing it!

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Listen to Me LIVE on Blogtalk Radio Later Today!

B'SD


12 Tamuz 5772




UPDATE: Click Hear the Recorded Show! Turn your speakers up as the international call sounded soft. The show cuts out due to a technical glitch at one point, then starts again. Stay with the program ;^ D
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I'll be on the Winning Life Through Pain blogtalk radio show at 9:00 PM Israel time tonight, 1:00 PM Central USA time. Click http://www.blogtalkradio.com/winninglifethroughpain to listen in.

Learn how I helped myself and other people to overcome horrific, debilitating pain with simple, can-do strategies. And find out what I taught to some pleasantly surprised medical professionals!

Money-saving, sanity-preserving info will be part of the presentation. 



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Face Your Future with Optimism.



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Monday, July 2, 2012

How to EMPOWER Yourself in an Emergency Room and MORE!

B'SD
12 Tamuz 5772  




Here’s another important thing you need to know in a medical crunch: When a person already taking medication(s) is admitted to a hospital - including the emergency room - or outpatient clinic, they usually receive new medications or, changes are made to the medication they've been taking all along. That can present some serious health problems for people with drug sensitivities. They become sicker or their medical problem is not adequately addressed while they're in the hospital or clinic. This is scary stuff! Here’s how to understand the problem:


Hospital-based staff members are not mind-readers. Worse, they tend to be crushed by heavy schedules and excessive responsibilities. They can't easily access every - or any - patients' complete medication lists. Communication lines might falter or not even be attempted. Medical professionals down the line aren't always able to know of recent medication changes. As a result, the new medication regimen being prescribed during the hospital or clinic stay, then at the time of discharge could 1) Omit necessary medications, 2) Add too many drugs treating the same problem, 3) Cause physical harm or 4) Hold incorrect dosages that simply do not help the patient.


Sometimes the situation happens in front of you as you scream, beg and plead in vain for someone to pay attention and to prescribe the medication you need versus the stuff they want to ply on you.


The patient and the medical staff share a problem called "A need for medication reconciliation." How that is to be accomplished is one serious matter. I've resolved it live on the spot for a few people.


Here’s how to solve the problem: You need to alert all medical personnel of the issues affecting your health. But what if relevant people aren't paying attention to you the patient, or to your loved ones demanding better care? See pages 42-47 of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge  for the LISTEN to the Person Before You: Lessons for Caregivers section. You can print it out and give copies to nursing supervisors, the head of the medical department treating you and anyone else you deem appropriate. There's NOTHING like in in the How-to and For Dummies line of books! 


Here are a few more suggestions: Print out the "Don't Tell Me You 'Understand'" poem on page 7 and hang it over your hospital bed. Practice more patient-protecting ideas described in the book. Delegate authority and have loved ones or friends present facts to relevant medical personnel. Learn how to successfully advocate for yourself in dire medical straits. Practice until you get it right.


There are plenty of reasons that I chose the “Face your medical problems with dignity. Face your future with optimism” motto for my book-related blog and Self-Help coaching services. An improving and protected sense of dignity plus ever-better optimism and solid information help ill people to cope with medical, mental health and disability challenges. You can overcome despair that way, and allow yourself to heal emotionally, even physically despite devastating setbacks. We hear these great sayings over time, but I learned the lessons in my gut and every cell of my body. You can, too.


Every medical professional owes it to their patients to ask, “How can I help you today?” If they don’t, you’ll know what to do when you read the EMPOWER Yourself book.






Medical and mental health professionals recommend the "persevere past emotional and physical pain" message of It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry If I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. So do clergy of different faiths.


You can learn the lessons to help you when you buy the E-book or print edition book from the publisher, Booklocker, which ships way faster than online book stores. Go to http://booklocker.com/books/3067.html





By the way, Americans, did you know that some doctors fear Obamacare - because it will fail to serve YOU? http://video.foxnews.com/v/1714511797001/

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.


Sunday, July 1, 2012

How to Lower YOUR Medical Costs from Anywhere in the World

B'SD


11 Tamuz 5772




The USA is in a medical mess. The Supreme Court decision did not give anyone jobs so they can earn incomes. How will unemployed citizens, or poor Americans with jobs, pay healthcare imperative taxes?


Are Americans aware that 1/3 of all US hospitals just might close before 2020? I suspect a bigger closure, actually, with Obamacare devastating things and people in the medical world.

What if you're reading this blog from another part of the globe? What can you do to afford better, or any, medical care missing from your life?

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Look at the expense of medical care these days. Nobody is giving the patient calming, cost-cutting answers. So the It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need to: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge book gives them to you. 


I used my professional background in Health Information Management to write the book, including the Global Resources section at the back. It clues you into charitable organizations that pay for part, or all, of specific medical bills if you can’t afford the costs. 

  • Have a child in England with a hearing and speaking disorder but can’t afford therapy and hearing aids? See page 90. 
  • You’re Latino with a liver disease but can’t afford medical care? See page 108. 
  • Need air transportation for an adult or child’s medical treatment? EMPOWER Yourself lists organizations ready to fly you and/or your loved one to the destination at no cost. 
  • Want to get in on clinical trials? 
  • Need a free wheelchair or other medical appliance at low cost
  • How about first-quality medication at low or zero cost

    Learn how to meet your needs when you read
    EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

I can't guarantee results, but I can give you a fighting chance to improve on your situation when you read




Find out what to do when medical personnel refuse or fail to listen to you. See this blog tomorrow for a patient-empowering update on that topic.





Buy the E-book or print edition today. Click on http://booklocker.com/books/3067.html

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.





Friday, June 29, 2012

Here's How to Help Americans with Health Care and Health Insurance Problems

B'SD


9 Tamuz 5772


I  refrained from blogging a few days as I prayed, literally prayed, that Americans would not be suckered in to the misguided policies of Obamacare. I knew it to be modeled on previous "health care" plans that have forced victims of those plans into medical tourism, bribes and utter misery. 


The US Supreme Court shocked me with the least democratic, least American decision I've known to come from there. It is a betrayal of the public interest on many levels.


The next phase to watch for is the dearth of doctors willing to work as slaves and rising numbers of Americans unable to pay insurance premiums. American healthcare now goes under the table, hidden from view. Bribes, subterfuge and appalling statistics to follow. Americans will be going to Canada and elsewhere for competent, timely healthcare (it's been happening for a while) IF they survive the present situation well enough to seek out genuine life support.


Think Medicaid can help you? Think again with this legal look at your medical problems.


Obamacare is likely to damage the already limping US economy.


Here's how to help pitiful Americans who need assistance paying for the medical care, medication, medical appliances, medical transportation and other necessities of overcoming illnesses and disability issues:


They can read the soothing, cost-cutting information in a book praised by mental health and medical professionals






The first half of the book provides insights for calming down from all the stresses of a given disability, medical or mental health situation. The second half is a Global Resources section that clues you in to charitable organizations willing to pay part or all of your specific medical bills.


I used my professional background in Health Information Management to write the EMPOWER Yourself book. I created a Global Resources section at the back to clue my readers into charitable organizations that pay for part or all of some specific medical bills if the patient can’t afford the costs.


You’re Latino with a liver disease 
but can’t afford medical care? 
See page 108.


Need air transportation for an 
adult or child’s medical treatment? 


EMPOWER Yourself lists 
several organizations ready to fly you 
and/or your loved one to 
necessary treatment centers
at no cost.


Want to get in on clinical trials? 

Need a free wheelchair or 
other medical appliance at low cost?


How about first-quality medication 
at low or zero cost?


Learn how to meet your needs when you read the book.


There are plenty of reasons that I chose the “Face your medical problems with dignity. Face your future with optimism” motto for my book-related blog and Self-Help coaching services. An improving and protected sense of dignity plus ever-better optimism and solid information help ill people to cope with medical, mental health and disability challenges. 


You can overcome despair that way, and allow yourself to heal emotionally, even physically despite devastating setbacks.


Medical and mental health professionals recommend the "persevere past emotional and physical pain" message of It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry If I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. So do clergy of different faiths.


Learn the lessons to help you when you buy the book from the publisher, Booklocker, which ships way faster than online book stores. Go to http://booklocker.com/books/3067.html


And keep praying. Americans need all the help they can get to stay healthy now. US healthcare is in severe crisis


A medical crisis is happening to you, if you're American. Use your tissues and handkerchiefs with my blessings borne of experience. GOD gives you Permission to Weep. And you can say that to any critics after explaining that "It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To." See pages 4-6 about that.




Buy the E-book or print edition today for a healthier future. Click on http://booklocker.com/books/3067.html

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.




Wednesday, June 27, 2012

How to End the Dramatic Increase in Abuse of Prescription Painkillers

B'SD


7 Tammuz


This headline article Dramatic Increase in Abuse of Rx Painkillers doesn't address some relevant issues:

  • Men are unfairly pressured to pretend they can cope with heartache and physical pain

  • Men too often feel or believe that they can't trust someone to help them even after courageously admitting they need some sort of help

  • The medical world too often fails to monitor the use of a patient's drug use and potential for drug abuse

  • Society and the medical world need to admit that men are human, deserve compassion and pain relief - psychological, spiritual and physical

We can turn those realities around into a can-do coping strategy. It takes courage, some training by competent therapists and clinicians, an attitude adjustment in society (start a movement among your friends and colleagues!) and a desire to prevent tragedy.


By the way, many of the "Thank you" letters, E-mails and phone calls I receive for 





are from men! I suspect that I know why: 

  1. The book is FILLED with privacy-protected answers to questions they need/want to ask. Too often men are simply unaware of whom they can trust to answer them and to protect their confidentiality. The EMPOWER Yourself book is a safe outlet with information that men need.
  2. EMPOWER Yourself lets them calm down, read and re-read the sections important to them in the confidential surroundings of their home, office or wherever they read the book.

Men, you deserve many healing, helpful breaks. As I tell my Self-Help Coaching clients and book buyers, "A medical crisis - you'd cry too, if it happened to you. Use your tissues and handkerchiefs with my blessings borne of experience. GOD gives you Permission to Weep. And you can say that to any critics after explaining that 'It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To.'"


Be sure to read pages 4 and 5, to get that FYI on your license to cry. 




Buy the E-book or print edition today for a brighter, happier way to deal with your disability, emotional, physical or mental health pain.  Buy your own copy of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge at http://booklocker.com/books/3067.html

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.



Be a man focused on his future, not on suffering.



Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Hippocrates and Health: WHAT Would He Say Today????

B'SD


6 Tamuz 5772


I had the extraordinary pleasure of meeting Dr. Brian Clement of The Hippocrates Health Institute today. He was one of the presenters at a healing strategies conference I attended. We chatted a bit during a break.


The good doctor validates many of the healing things you'll read about in the blog and in E-book or print edition






Want to know what I learned today? 

A) 93% of chemotherapy patients die 
despite their "therapy"
even if they've experienced 
a remission of their cancer. 

B) Autism and diabetes are 
the fastest-growing diseases 
in the Western world. 

Why? 

Commercially prepared foods and synthetic medications (including commercially prepared "vitamins") loaded with synthetic this or that, pesticides, coal tar and turpentine (YES) undermine the human immune system. 


I can't capably summarize the scientifically validated presentation I witnessed for several hours, but I can assure you that the information is publicly available and ignored, misunderstood or misrepresented.

One more thing: Dr. Clement has helped people to recover from many debilitating diseases and to toss away their medical appliances and medications. He even helps people to lose their cancer without using chemotherapy. How? With pure, life-supporting food and strengthened spiritual efforts. 

Hippocrates recommended that centuries ago. So do naturopaths today. You can read about that in EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. Buy it at http://booklocker.com/books/3067.html



WHAT do you suppose Hippocrates would say if he knew how humanity is ruining its health with every mouthful of non-nutritious junk sold as "food" and with doctors poisoning already fragile bodies?

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.



Choose to heal simply, under competent guidance.


Thursday, June 21, 2012

Breast Cancer Risks On Your Plate

B'SD


1 Tamuz 5772


I happen to be preparing a news story about breast thermography and chanced upon information that backs up a claim I've made on this blog and in EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. That information is at Breast Cancer Risk Factors



In brief, you're probably eating foods that can cause cancer. That's not some vegetarian enthusiast telling you this ladies and gentlemen, it is the commentary from a medically-related business focused on protecting human health.


Care to learn more information so you can cost-effectively and sensibly EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge


READ





Buy the E-book or print edition today for a brighter tomorrow at 
http://booklocker.com/books/3067.html



EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.



And better food options.