Bupa Arabia opens free over-the-phone medical advice service to public - Saudi Gazette

 JEDDAH — Bupa Arabia, the largest specialized healthcare company in the Kingdom, has set out to benefit the community by opening its over-the-phone medical advice service, at no cost.

An integral part of the Tebtom program is the ‘Doctor on Phone’ service, providing health advice and answers any medical questions to both Bupa Arabia members and non-members. This service is available 24/7 and easily accessible by simply calling Tebtom’s
toll-free number (800-440-4040) or through web chat (www.bupa.com.sa),....

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Al-Falih to open conference focusing on patients’ rights | Arab News

 Health Minister Khalid Al-Falih will inaugurate the 1st Gulf Patient Rights Conference on Feb. 28 at King Faisal Conference Hall at the Riyadh InterContinental Hotel. The three-day conference will tackle a host of issues related to patient rights either from the theoretical or applied perspectives.

The issues include the current state of patient rights practices, role of health facilities and health team members, and regulatory authorities and educational, professional and
legal institutions in promoting patient rights....

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Patient-Generated Data: How's a Doctor to Interpret It All? medscape.com

Was the EMR Price Tag Worth It?

Eric J. Topol, MD: We have a problem that with the Affordable Care Act, about $40 billion were used to encourage doctors and hospitals to use electronic medical records (EMRs). Was this a good decision, Greg? Where do we stand with the liberation of the data to people?

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Your Doctor Does Not Give a Crap About Your Fitness Tracker Data - Gizmodo.com

Patients are increasingly bringing their fitness-tracker data to their checkups. Not only are doctors ill-equipped to deal with this information—they’re skeptical that it’s even useful.

As Andrew Rosenblum points out in his latest MIT Technology Review article, doctors are profoundly unimpressed with wearables manufactured by the likes of Fitbit, Apple, and Pebble. As patients disclose the troves of information collected by these fitness-trackers, physicians are at a loss to understand the significance of the data, while also questioning the accuracy of such devices.

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Hospital Red Blanket Problem - Source The New Work Times

 Source : The New Work Times

WHEN I saw my first red blanket as a young medical student, I thought little of it.

One morning, as I rushed around a hospital in California on my daily rounds, I spotted an old man who lay in bed beneath a scarlet cover, a sharp contrast to the white linens wrapped around the other patients. He looked unremarkable, and I assumed he brought the blanket from home. So I moved on. He wasn’t my patient, anyway.

That afternoon, I overheard a discussion about the patient between two physicians. Instead of identifying him in the usual manner — age, gender, medical problems — one of the doctors said, “This is a red blanket patient.”

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Why patients don't follow doctors' orders — and what doctors could do about it. Source :Deseret news national

Medical students traded stethoscopes for skillets this spring in a course designed to make learning how to cook part of the path to becoming a doctor.

"Cooking skills are an incredible tool for any doctor in any specialty," said Dr. Geeta Maker-Clark, a clinical assistant professor and coordinator of integrative medical education at the University of Chicago who, together with Dr. Sonia Oyola, launched the culinary medicine program at the Pritzker School of Medicine. "They help you become a change agent for your patients."
Chicago's culinary medicine curriculum and similar programs at other schools are targeted, at least in part, at a rising obesity rate among U.S. adults, which increased from 25.5 percent in 2008 to 27.7 percent in 2014, according to Gallup. But this plan for doctors to use cooking skills to create a healthier population is challenged by one ever-present concern in the medical profession, health experts said: patients aren't that good at following doctor's orders.

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