Preventive Care
Saving Money on Dental Care
Dr. Greg contends to all health care costs are negotiable. That applies to dental care. Check out these tips from “How to Manage Dental Costs, With or Without Insurance” in the New York Times. In fact,the article uses some of Dr. Greg’ s own tips:
Prevention
Full disclosure about costs upfront
Spread out the costs over time (different [...]
Another’s Doctor’s View
A must-read: This piece by Dr. Abraham Verghese in the Wall Street Journal: “The Myth of Prevention.” Inspired by Sir Luke Fildes’s 1891 painting, The Doctor (right).
More thoughts on this to follow!
The Prostate Dilemma
Even the medical community can’t seem to agree about prostate screenings. In March, after a U.S. study suggested that screening for prostate cancer does not reduce death from the disease, a bigger European study suggested that screening can lower the death rate as much as 20 percent. (Both studies were reported in the New England [...]
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Many of my patients are as concerned with costs as with the state of their health. Because of that, I work with them to make sure health care is both affordable and comprehensive. By far, the cheapest form of health care is prevention. So in my practice, I focus on  intercepting disease or health issues [...]
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