Tips and Suggestions for Alleviating Snoring

Almost everyone snores on occasion, and though they may joke or find humor in someone else’s sleeping noises, snoring can be a sign of deeper health issues. If you’re a frequent snorer, not only can it affect the quality and amount of sleep you receive, but it also has an effect on how your family members sleep as well.

Types of Snoring

Believe it or not, there are different types of snoring and they affect each individual differently. Those who snore on occasion may do so as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, lack of good sleep, or abnormal sleeping posture. Those who habitually or frequently snore often have too much throat or nasal tissue in the way that is prone to vibrate as they breathe. They can also have issues with muscle control and how the tongue is positioned during rest. If not treated, these issues can cause a person to wake up over loss of breath, or experience other health issues such as daytime fatigue or even heart disease.

Causes of Snoring and Alleviating the Symptoms

Causes of snoring can include, age, body type, sinus problems, and sleep posture among other factors. Some of these causes can be helped by practicing good nutrition and sleeping habits, as well as getting plenty of physical activity to maintain a healthy weight. But if snoring is persistent despite these changes, it may be necessary to look at other methods to solve the problem.

• Continuous Positive Airway Pressure(CPAP) - Used to treat sleep apnea and other sleep conditions, this device keeps the airway open by having the user wear a mask that continuously supplies the wearer with pressurized air to assist with breathing.
• Surgery Options - If the airway is restricted from sinus issues or swollen tonsils or adenoids, sometimes these can be removed and will reduce snoring all together.
• Dental Devices - Similar to an athletic mouth guard, these devices are considered very effective in reducing and alleviating snoring by bringing the jaw or tongue forward during sleep to open the airways.

Dental devices, CPAP Machines, and Surgery are all something to discuss with your doctor if the snoring is interfering with your sleep or the rest of someone else. For more information, consult http://www.duo-confort.com for anti-snoring mouthpieces, or a sleep specialists to discuss other options.

Multiple Medical and Healthcare Benefits Through Dedicated Social Networks

The social media is playing a great role in Sustainable Healthcare throughout the USA and beyond. Being the pioneering social-network for connecting the patients and the doctors is no small task. The website has been designed in such a way that the home page gives you all the available options including registration, online help, answers to the FAQ and connectivity to major social-media networks. This platform acts as free marketing tool for doctors. If you are a doctor and got yourself registered in the social networks like http://drsocial.org  you are ensuring maximum marketing for your services. The website not only lists your name, branch of medication and contact details, it also shows the various MD reviews written by the real patients who might have come to you through the same website’s marketing for a sustainable Healthcare. 

The reviews written here take into account

·        The environment within your health center or clinic

·        Your punctuality and appointment scheduling

·        Your friendly behavior with the patients

·        Level of diagnosis-accuracy

·        Your individual and your system’s efficiency levels

·        Effectiveness of your treatment/medication/surgery

·        The time you spend with your patients  and their satisfaction levels

·        The Meritocratic ranking for doctors that you can use to promote your services 

You might have recalled your own childhood days when you went to meet a doctor in his health-care center when your health was down. The moment you enter the clinical premises, you felt a sudden calmness and mental peace descending in you. You feel that you are now in safe hands and your nerves got calmed down. The same effect will be experienced by your patients when they visit you. Patients’ visits are dependent on your popularity. Popularity depends on the effectiveness of the campaign which depends on the media you select. The most powerful media today at the global level is the social media network. This has become a second home to almost everyone in this world. 72% of the adult population (>=18) who work on the internet or use internet have registered their names in the leading general social media networks. Since the websites like http://drsocial.org  have established understanding with the leading social networks including Facebook and Twitter, the task of Communication Patient-Doctor through this website becomes very simple and straight. Of course, the system does not associate itself in any kind of appointment scheduling, follow up etc. The Forums give you plenty of room to interact and discuss with a wide range of patients on the network.

Working on social media websites like http://drsocial.org gives you the best option of sending and receiving private-messages with the existing-members. By opening the private section of your profile, you will be able to read all the messages that you have received, sent and also store the messages in your system. You can change your profile at any point of time by just logging in with your user name and password.

When you register as a patient you will be able to

·        Access the largest database in the world about doctors and specialists in the USA.

·        Search for a doctor in the USA using the name of doctor, address, services provided and various other custom made options.

·        You can download free mobile-app(s) developed by the system.

·        Contact the doctor based on the contact information provided and be able to read regular MD reviews about physicians from the patients.

·        Write your own reviews about physicians and sustainable Healthcare.

·        Read blogs, add your likes view other likes, interact with the global patients-community through chats and do much more.

·        Use the Meritocratic ranking for doctors to select the best doctor in terms of patient care, facilities and infrastructure and various other factors that include those listed above for doctors.

When it comes to being used as a free marketing tool for doctors, the website has special section called the specialty-doctors. Here, you are benefited both as a doctor and as a patient. Normally it is very complex task to use general search engines when it comes to searching for a particular specialist, for example Chiropractors bone marrow surgeons. The websites like http://drsocial.org have built-in SEO that are custom made for the medical field alone. Besides, the increasing popularity of the social network is adding many of the leading physicians in the USA through registrations. Apart from them, there are literally tens of thousands of medical and alternate medicine specialists across the USA. You can find them all in one roof which makes your appointments simple (The website as such does not get involved in getting you appointments, fix schedules or make any sort of correspondence on your behalf). You can also post general enquiries about any doctor, medication or other information directly to your e-mail. Besides, you can get a direct link from the website onto many leading general social media networks like facebook, twitter and others.

Sustainable Healthcare is not just your appointments and treatments with the doctors. It begins with the health and well-being consciousness from within you. The system walks you through the various forums that host hehttp://drsocial.org/forums/topic/20/message-from-dr-social-s-ceo-to-ualthy and impartial discussions about the complete balancing of a healthy-way of life. This includes your diet, exercising and fitness, how to keep your body immune to diseases and many other interesting and critical subjects.

The FAQ-cum-Help gives you all the related information about how you can use the website to get the maximum benefits. You also have quick-links to Communication Patient-Doctor through dedicated chat center that can be accesses from the general social-media networks. Besides, the website itself is getting new update periodically. 

Registered members get special benefits like

·        Displaying your detailed profile and contact details as a doctor.

·        Promote your services through consistent campaigning based on your preference.

·        Spread your campaigning by sharing information with business-partners, related third-party vendors etc and much more.

JOIN US! With your registration we donate $1 to Medical Research. It’s our way to thank you for having opened a FREE account with us.

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You can also view the mission statement from the CEO of Dr Social at http://drsocial.org/forums/topic/20/message-from-dr-social-s-ceo-to-u

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Physician Employment: Is it all about Job Security?

The future of the private doctor entrepreneur is bleak. To many, this may seem like a death sentence, but it is only a fact, a reality that many physicians are facing. It is no wonder that there is a massive movement to employment in bigger medical groups, hospitals, or groups affiliated to hospitals. In fact, in 2010, data from American Hospital Association revealed an incredible increase in the number of employed physicians from 2000 to 212,000. But before you take the huge leap, there are some factors beyond job security that you should consider.

1. Your Personality - If you are easy going, it is easier for you to make the transition. If a perfectionist, the transition may be very difficult for you.

2. Your Autonomy - When you get into employment, you will lose your autonomy in terms of decision making, location, and even whether the support staff will have the type of skills you require- remember you are no longer the boss. Your service work may also be affected, as you will be expected to spend more time at the hospital.

3. EHR- Electronic Health Records - In private practice, the systems are simple. as the institution is also small. A move to a large organization means that you have to become part of an intricate EHR system, which again makes the transition difficult.

4. A Reduction in Revenue - In a hospital, your salary will be fixed, with only a bonus, if you are productive enough. You may also deal with many patients under medicare, and medicaid, and even those without any health insurance. The lab charges now belong to the hospital. All these factors will without a doubt result in a significant reduction of revenue, a fact that you will have to grapple with.

5. Mission Congruence - Get to know what the organization you are going to be working with treasures most- is it community activities or high-margin activities?

6. Termination - You could get terminated, and your name tarnished. Your employer could terminate you at his discretion, and never refer any patients to you.

However, all is not lost. If you have decided to go into employment, there are some ways in which you can cushion yourself: Get Legal Advise

Before you make the all significant move, get legal advice. An attorney will help you understand all aspects of the employer's contract, and as you will get to know, all parts of the contract are negotiable. It is important to include what you need to work efficiently in the contract, though the hospital could still deny it. This process, in essence, helps you look realistically at the transition and decide whether its worth all the hassle.

Just like in any other business, you have to keep overhead at minimum if you are going to stick around in private medical practice. This is perhaps the biggest challenge many doctor entrepreneurs are facing, with factors such as decreased reimbursement from the government, and the cost of drugs for patients being highlighted. This is indeed a genuine reason to call it quits on private practice, but before you take the dive, brace yourself for tough times.

Prescription Savings of the RGV for entire year 2013

January 1, 2013 to December 31,2013

Total Transactions: 1,227

Total Savings: $25,926.64

Savings Per Script: $25.98

Average Savings: $34.11

Brand Transactions: 81

Brand Percentage: 5.95%

Generic Transactions: 1,146

Generic Percentage: 94.05%

U&C Transactions: 463

U&C Percentage: 34.90%

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