A Conversation with GOP Candidate Dr. JayFleitman
By Sana Butler
Last month, Dr. Jay Fleitman, republican candidate for Congress, became the first candidate to officially qualify
for the ballot in the 2nd District. The Northampton resident, who specializes in pulmonary and sleep medicine and is an immediate past president at Cooley Dickinson Hospital, faces an uphill battle. He is challenging U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, who has been in office since 1988.
But “now is a particularly important time to have people with a healthcare background in Congress,” Dr. Fleitman told Healthcare Ledger in a recent interview where he discussed cash-only doctors, declining reimbursements, nurse practitioners and Canada’s disappointment with our healthcare reform bill.
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Changing Professional Boundaries: You a Nurse or a Doctor?
By Nina Slupphaug
Federal health care reform serves to create access to health care services by several million more Americans. However, it is no secret that despite the bill’s intentions, not everyone are is likely to be able to achieve much access as there is a great shortage in primary care providers, --a situation many Massachusetts residents are all too familiar with. The high demand, but relatively short supply of primary and family care physicians has given Nurse Practitioners the momentum to push favorable legislation through the Massachusetts legislature.
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Just Breathe
By Julie Beman
When patients walk into the waiting room at Allergy Associates in Glastonbury, Connecticut on the first Wednesday of the month, they check in at the receptionist’s window as they would any other day of the month. It’s business as usual except for one thing: some of the patients don’t have to pay.
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The Psychological Impact of Disaster on Emergency Response Workers, Victims and Communities
By Deborah Renholm, MS, RN and Stephanie Chalupka, EdD, PHCNS-BC, FAAOHN
Disasters take many forms anddemand quick response fromemergency response workers. Disasters may be natural such as earthquakes
or hurricanes, or they may be
manmade such as mass violence or terrorist
attacks.
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