Heart Health

Doctor-dubai provides information about virtually all doctors and physicians licensed and their services in Dubai, (UAE). The information includes contact information, education/training, practice information, health insurance affiliations, languages understood, nationality, maps and pictures. For doctor it serves as publicity facility as well. Working in Dubai by www.doctor-dubai.com provides useful links to help you work in Dubai, UAE. The information is valuable if you want to find a job as a doctor in Dubai or attaining a license to practice medicine in Dubai. For a common user, any person finding a doctor in Dubai is as easy as 1.2.3. The search can be narrowed to the location, facility name, medical specialty, nationality etc and even by the medical degree of the doctor.

Dubai has an excellent healthcare system, with a large number of public and private hospitals and clinics offering state-of-the-art medical technology and the highest standards… Read More…

According to a recent study by the Cato Institute of Britain’s National Health Service (NHS), there is no perfect scenario when it comes to health care.  On one side of the spectrum is the desire to have unlimited medical care to extend one’s life as much as possible, and the other end of the spectrum is to ration care to control spending.

The NHS is a centralized government version of the one-payer system in England, and it pays directly for health care and finances the system through general tax revenues.  Most physicians and nurses are government employees.  Below are some key statistics to keep in mind when looking at a government system without competition.

Waiting Times. Presently as many as three quarters of a million Britons are waiting to be treated in Britain’s hospitals. Cancer patients, for example, will wait as long as eight months before being treated.… Read More…

Against the backdrop of expensive health care costs, the Americans would not be better off if they are for socialized medicine?

Not so, according to a recent study by the Cato Institute of Britain’s National Health Service (NHS). There is no perfect scenario when it comes to health care. On one side of the spectrum is the desire to unlimited medical care, their own lives as much as possible and the other end of the spectrum is rationed to extend to haveTo control> care spending.

The NHS is a central government version of the single-payer system in England and it pays directly for health care and finances of the system through general tax revenues. Most doctors and nurses are government employees.

What can we learn from Britain’s health care?

1. Long waits

* Currently, no less than three quarters of a million Britons are waiting to be treated in… Read More…

Two months after my open-heart surgery, through my cardiologist’s referral, I was cleared to begin a physician-sponsored cardiac rehabilitation program – a program of exercise and risk-factor education for individuals recovering from serious heart procedures and heart disease.

Some patients are healed enough to begin sooner, some later. The gym facility where I live in Santa Fe, NM, called the Center for Living Well, is spaciously housed in the basement of our one hospital. In the last thirty years, thousands of cardiac rehabilitation programs have sprung up far and wide in the U.S. alone, all featuring similar characteristics.

In my book, The Open Heart Companion: Preparation and Guidance for Open-Heart Surgery Recovery (Open Heart Publishing, 2006) I advise, “systematically increase your walking every day, to the point where you can visualize and look forward to the strength retraining and aerobic stamina offered in a good cardiac rehabilitation program. Once your… Read More…