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Curtis Graham - EzineArticles.com Expert Author  

Curt Graham is a proliferative author and writer. While practicing medicine for over 35 years as a Board Certified OB-Gyn he continually authored hundreds of practice marketing and patient education/information articles. It is unusual for medical doctors to take time to educate their patients in this way. Additionally, he authored a book on infertility, and used it as a special handout to his infertility patients, his primary focus in practice. Syndication of many of ... [More]

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  • No Doctors Left - You Asked For It!
    [News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion] Impossible gibberish? Physicians aren't dumb. Actually, they're smart enough not to bet on a lame horse regardless of their intellectual prowess, their passion for relieving human suffering through medical care, and their instinctual driving force to make a difference in our sick world.


  • Health Care Stinks - How to Push Your Personal Health Care Over the Top
    [Health-and-Fitness:Healthcare-Systems] People are frustrated with the deficiencies in our health care system and in the delivery of it. It's critical to find ways to beat the system, avoid the pitfalls, jump the barriers, and obtain good or top health care or medical care in a consistent manner. The problem is that most patients don't know how to do it. This article touches on how regular patients can use strategies which are easy and practical to get top medical care anywhere, anytime. Once a patient gets the idea of what to look for and how to approach their doctor in an effective way, they suddenly become aware that better medical care is there for the taking.


  • 5 Reasons For the American Physician Shortage-Didn't Know There Was One?
    [News-and-Society:Politics] The evidence is clear for understanding why there is a significant shortage of doctors in America. The 5 factors which create barriers to any physician wanting or needing to stay in medical practice are also the same reasons college students do not want to become a medical doctor. Each factor can be resolved, but in 40 years they haven't. Having to enter a profession where income is controlled by fee restrictions, medical malpractice is a threat every day, hierarchy conflicts are common, and the high costs of health care are still blamed on physicians is becoming less and less desirable as statistics show.


  • How to Save Hundreds of Dollars on Your Health Care Costs
    [Health-and-Fitness:Home-Health-Care] Health care costs can be reduced significantly with the use of common sense, understanding where and how patients can save money while obtaining medical care, and with following the advice and tips this doctor gives to patients. Close attention is needed to recognize how marketing strategies by billion dollar companies of health care products, from herbal medicine to cosmetics, persuades everyone their products are effective, contribute to healthy bodies, and worth the cost they charge for them. When people are able to bypass the marketing hype and social trends that brainwash them, they can save thousands of dollars that otherwise are wasted. Secondly, hundreds of dollars can be saved within the health care system with ordinary tactics that are effective and save time and money on every doctor visit.


  • 10 Ways You Can Make Sure Your Mom Stays Healthy
    [Home-and-Family:Elder-Care] With mother's day approaching, it's the perfect time to check out your mothers health. The most important ways to do that are described in detail and point out the most common problems aging mother's have. They typically hide them from the "kids" for one of many reasons, but primarily because most prefer to remain living independently of their families and therefore hide every bit of evidence that may indicate their inability to remain independent and provide an opening for the family to plunk her into a nursing home.


  • Prostate Cancer Prevention and Risks
    [Cancer:Prostate-Cancer] If you were born a male, you have a prostate gland buried in your pelvis. Every male, some at more risk than others, if they live long enough, face the risk of developing prostate cancer.


  • How to Resolve Conflict Between Yourself and the Person Verbally Attacking You
    [Self-Improvement:Personal-Growth] Confronting conflicts is not a skill most people have. Understanding strategies for resolving verbal conflicts which work very efficiently enables anyone to manage verbal conflicts at home or in the office with responses which disarm the opponent quickly and prevents physical and revengeful repercussions.


  • Marketing Your Medical Practice - 8 Reasons to Make Time to Do it and Watch Your Income Accelerate
    [Business:Marketing] Physician incomes are steadily decreasing over the past 10 years by AMA studies. It's resulted in physicians terminating medical practice early, leaving solo clinical practice, and accounting for the number of physicians decreasing in the USA. Marketing one's own medical practice is a powerful means of dramatically increasing practice income if given the effective implementing strategies, understandable reasons to do it, and what it takes to make it work. Physicians are never taught about running a small business (called office practice) or about the value, depth, and extensive attributes marketing offers them. The usual factors holding doctors back such as high cost, too busy, willingness to settle for mediocre, and not knowing what they don't know are all false assumptions which hold doctors hostage, compromises their family life as well as their lifestyle dreams of affluence, and leaves them in medical practice quicksand. Basic principles of marketing apply to any type business or profession. Learning them is much faster and considerably easier than memorizing the origin and insertions of every muscle in the body. Physicians just don't have to settle for "Wal-Mart" medical practice because the Internet has changed everything. Once hard, now easy. Be a better physician.


  • How to Market Your Medical Practice Without Losing Time and Money
    [Business:Marketing] Is there any doubt? Private medical practices are scampering to fight off the medical practice competition from many sources. The urban overload of doctors doesn't leave much room for new doctors starting out. Your patients are gradually being absorbed by managed care enterprises.


  • Doctors - 7 Reliable Ways to Insure Your Practice Thrives - That Are Neglected by Others
    [Business:Small-Business] Marketing a medical practice usually involves large expenditures. Doctors should be aware of many marketing techniques that don't cost a cent and can easily be done "in-house." The cost is in time and attention. Learning what patients need and want from their doctor is the key.


  • How To Manage And Resolve Your Frustrations With The Health Care System Barriers
    [Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] Every medical patient can describe at least one or two infuriating experiences with their medical care whether in a hospital or doctor's office. How did you manage yours? Pay attention to these proven techniques and strategies that not only dissipate your stress in a mature manner, but also easily bring the opponent to their knees begging for mercy. I call it "verbal revenge."


  • 10 Ways To Get The Most Benefit Out Of Your "Quickie" Office Visit With Your Doctor
    [Health-and-Fitness:Medicine] Tackling your doctor as a means to get more time with the doctor is not the best way to add more time to your visit. Learn how to quietly sneak up on your doctor with simple easy strategies and tactics that not only create more time with your doctor, but also enables you to get every medical issue you have handled in an efficient manner. And leave the doctors standing there wondering how they could be held captive so long and why they never caught on to what was happening. OUCH.


  • Doctors And Patients Held Hostage
    [Health-and-Fitness:Pain-Management] If you have chronic pain, or know someone who suffers with it, here is a wake-up call that will immediately clear up why doctors fight with you about prescribing narcotic pain medications, why doctors react negatively to treatment of chronic pain the way they do, and why your complaints about poor treatment of your chronic pain should be directed towards the real culprits--DEA, government, Medical Boards.


  • If You Don't Like Your Doctors - Can You Still Trust Them?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Medicine] Some medical doctors are outright intolerable for one reason or another. If you have had that experience and you would like to learn how to handle a doctor like that, this doctor will let you in on a few secrets to fighting back. Learn how to do that in a ways that are mature, direct, and effective. Doctors can't stand other doctors sometimes for the same reasons as you. They use the same strategies.


  • Discover The Incredible Benefits Others Already Enjoy By Giving
    [Self-Improvement:Inspirational] There is a quiet secret of how some people seem to enjoy life and exhibit a happiness that most others never seem to find. The secret is so simple and understandable that it blows your mind. Yet most forget the where real values in life lie. Learn at least one way that is so easy, satisfying, fulfilling, and fantastic that those who believe in it reach levels in life that are unattainable otherwise. The proof is Biblical in dimension and true reality by experience.


  • Harness Your Thoughts About Retirement---It Doesn't Exist!
    [Home-and-Family:Retirement] If retirement means no work, no job, and no physical or mental efforts, then retirement is a myth. Seven issues support the fact that all of these attributes continue for life and make retirement a misnomer and a true misinformation tactic. It's a good thing and a true wake-up call.


  • Does Your Word (Personal Integrity) Mean Anything?
    [Self-Improvement:Inspirational] If you seem stalemated because you have succumbed to our social environment where one's "word" has become a laughable, integrity destroying, and useless set of words, then it's time to persuade yourself that the benefits of keeping your word has priceless value. It's not simply the fact that you say what you mean, and mean what you say. The spinoff from that effort is measured in multiples of positive effects.


  • And They Wonder Why Patients Have Become Their Adversaries
    [Health-and-Fitness:Medicine] Deficiencies in medical care can often be attributed to the medical doctor rather than the health care system. Doctors often wonder why they keep coming up short in the process of building their practice. The problem is that either doctors don't care how they treat patients, or have no clue as to what offends patients. The solution is for patients to find another doctor because doctors rarely change their attitude---even when they are standing in quicksand.


  • How To Recognize When You Are Being Bilked By An Ebusiness Web Site
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Security] Novice small business Internet entrepreneurs have a difficult enough time learning how the system works, let alone keeping themselves from becoming victim to Web preditors. The characteristic factors and events leading up to victimizing an ebusiness warrior are sometimes subtle, but are recognizable.


  • Uncover Free Veins Of Gold By Prospecting Online Guru Newsletters (Part 1 of 2)
    [Business:Small-Business] Why spend hard earned money on website Internet business information, advice, and resources, when you can get it for free. Newsletters authored by the gurus of Internet business tactics are not only free to subscribe to, but are a tremendous source of free help, information, resources, and advice. Newsletters are commonly overlooked as good and reliable sources of business information. Some consider them an annoyance, nothing but a sales pitch, and a waste of time. Buried within every single newsletter are pearls that will make your day --- and will definitely help make your Internet business successful. Business online newsletters are considered an annoyance or even garbage by some.


  • Afraid Of Reading The Bible? I Was!
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Want happiness to follow you around without taking responsibility for how you live? The most published and read book in the world is the Bible. The Bible clearly outlines how to be happy. Many refuse to read the Bible because of their fear that it will brainwash them, or force them into a life that they don't want. The Bible is a puppy that wants to lick you cheek and asks only that you listen. Then you choose...


  • How Do Campers Protect Their Children?
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Most families watch and protect their children while camping in the boonies. Children still become disoriented, lost, or worse. Distractions, unlimited boundaries, and the child's exploratory compulsions create the perfect environment for trouble. It takes some planning ahead, as well as some "on-the-spot" ingenious tricks, to reduce the probability of an untoward event happening. This article gives campers some well founded tips of how to keep track of the kids, and let them loose at the same time.


  • The Unbelievable Becomes Believable
    [News-and-Society:Religion] All people wonder why odd, good, and bad things suddenly happen in their lives. Most ponder about it and continue to attach illogical and extraneous causes for the event. The answer is always just a fingertip away. How do you ever find the true answer? Follow the 10 steps outlined below, and it will all come to you in a flash!


  • How To Make Your Eight Minute Visit With The Doctor Count -- Part 3
    [Womens-Interests] Short and quick doctor visits in the exam room, or even in his office, often prevents patients from feeling satisfied with their care. Critical questions remain unanswered. Patients are in need of information that they can't get from any other source. The use of some special techniques in order to have every minute in the exam room with the doctor count, involves avoiding the time consuming procedures and actions that distract from that precious time. Using the little secrets discussed here, will make a world of difference, and increase the value of your doctor visit.


  • How To Make Your Eight Minute Visit With The Doctor Count -- Part 2
    [Womens-Interests] The most embarrassing and intimidating time in a doctor's office is the time spent in the exam room with the doctor. Strategies for patients to use to make that anguish disappear are key to obtaining the best medical care possible. These strategies put you, the patient, in control of the visit. By having control of the process in the exam room, a patient will come out of that office patting themselves on the back, and knowing that they had their money's worth of care.


  • How To Make Your Eight Minute Visit With The Doctor Count -- Part 1 of 3
    [Womens-Interests] Patient frustrations with the current medical system of care discourages necessary doctor visits. It can be improved tremendously by knowing alternatives for avoiding the hassles. Following several practical and easy techniques and bits of advice will make your day. This advice and information is not available anywhere else.


  • When It Gets Right Down To It -- I Choose Campers
    [Recreation-and-Sports] Campers are special people with unique talents and qualities. They provide examples of how to make life simpler, more relaxed, and happier. The benefits of the camping sport are often unrecognized by the campers themselves, and especially by those who avoid camping. A knowledge of and respect for nature is what they are willing to share with us. We all benefit...




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