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Cleveland Clinic Launches First-of-its-Kind Preventive Breast Cancer Vaccine Study

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Aug 2

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Cleveland Clinic Launches First-of-its-Kind Preventive Breast Cancer Vaccine Study

Cleveland Clinic has begun clinical testing of a novel vaccine designed ultimately to prevent triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC)

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Jul 31

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Pfizer Loses Appeal Over Heart Failure Medicine Co Pays

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Jul 27
1 min

Pfizer Loses Appeal Over Heart Failure Medicine Co Pays

Pfizer loses U.S. appeal over co-pays for heart failure patients

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Jul 25
1 min

Amazon buys One Medical

I see the value of #efficiency and speed, but I'm still not on board with a lot of #telehealth.

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Terminally ill 10 year old should have the right to try

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Jul 22
1 min

Terminally ill 10 year old should have the right to try

A father said he felt "helpless" after being told his 10-year-old son would not be accepted for a new cancer treatment

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Study Finds Bidirectional Association Between Celiac Disease and IBD

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Jun 27
1 min

Study Finds Bidirectional Association Between Celiac Disease and IBD

Many people suffer from #IBD in silence because it's embarrassing. I did for many years.

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Tennessee nurse convicted in lethal drug error sentenced to three years probation

melissa mullamphy

May 14
1 min

Tennessee nurse convicted in lethal drug error sentenced to three years probation

Source: NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/05/13/1098867553/nurse-sentenced-probation This is a tough one. Did she make a grave mistake? Yes. Did she do it intentionally? No. Did she take accountability immediately? Yes. Did the hospital defend their employee? No. Did they fail to report the accident on Murphey's death certificate? Yes. They paid the family out of court and attached a gag order. 👇🏼 There are no winners here. The Murphey's lost thei

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melissa mullamphy

Feb 9
3 min

Covid-19, Poor Planning and Insurance

Just when you thought things could not get worse with the delay of care, overwhelmed and understaffed emergency rooms and hospitals, now patients can't get their medicine. ‘Somebody Is Gonna Die’: Medi-Cal Patients Struggle to Fill Prescriptions On Jan. 1, the state handed control of its Medicaid drug program, known as Medi-Cal Rx, to Magellan Health, which is administering prescription drug coverage for California’s 14 million #Medicaid patients, most of whom previously got

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Melissa Mullamphy

Nov 22, 2021
1 min

Why can't I get an appointment?

Why can't I get a medical appointment?

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Melissa Mullamphy

Nov 12, 2021
1 min

Ultimately the decision is mine

This is an interesting read. God knows #oncology is a challenging field. I've just begun to develop #empathy for this profession.

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Melissa Mullamphy

Nov 7, 2021
2 min

Healthcare Cost Transparency

https://thehill-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/580397-price-transparency- Last week I blogged about #EmergencyRoom overcrowding, staff shortages, and suggestions on when to go to the #ER vs. your #GP and/or #UrgentCare. The attached article discusses the cost factor in going to the #ER before any #treatment begins and the need for #price transparency. In the United States, an emergency room visit costs $2,200 on average, according to #UnitedHealt

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Emergency Rooms are Swamped with Seriously ill Patients but not Covid-19

Melissa Mullamphy

Nov 3, 2021
6 min

Emergency Rooms are Swamped with Seriously ill Patients but not Covid-19

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/10/26/1046432435/ers-are-now-swamped-with-seriously-ill-patients-but-most-dont-even-have-covid An ambulance crew weaves a gurney through the halls of Sparrow Hospital's emergency department in Lansing, Michigan. Overcrowding has forced the staff to triage patients, putting some in the waiting rooms and treating others on stretchers and chairs in the halls. "ED crowding is not an issue of inconvenience," the authors wrote. "There

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Hospice - What you need to know and how you can help your loved one through the process

Melissa Mullamphy

Oct 27, 2021
3 min

Hospice - What you need to know and how you can help your loved one through the process

My mom was in #hospice care for a week. It was very hard on all of us but, we supported my mom's decision 100%. The lousy #cancer had won.

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Waiting to die, and the patients are asked to wait?

Melissa Mullamphy

Oct 16, 2021
3 min

Waiting to die, and the patients are asked to wait?

Hospice patients are being told to wait as there is no room for them in hospice facilities or staff.

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Melissa Mullamphy

Oct 12, 2021
1 min

The End of Job Security in Healthcare

We are on a fast-moving train on a collision course. Our society is in need of a healthy and robust healthcare workforce, but we are witnessing an aging profession, obsolete paradigms, an inability to afford, train, and educate the workforce, increasing regulatory requirements, and an aging population. 👇🏼 All of this is happening in the midst of a strained healthcare system brought on by COVID-19. Hospitals have responded by cutting pay, furloughing, laying off workers, inc

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Melissa Mullamphy

Sep 25, 2021
1 min

National Daughters Day 2021

👇 Lots has changed without you. You are irreplaceable. Here is an excerpt from #notinvainapromisekept on #nationaldaughtersday 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 I won’t lie and say it has all been easy since you died for our family or without strife, but I find nothing in life worth fighting for. 👇 We all handled your loss differently. I don’t believe in the “norms” of grief; I think we are all managing the best we can. 👇 They say death can bring out the best and worst in families. I thi

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Melissa Mullamphy

Sep 6, 2021
6 min

Nonmaleficence

Nonmaleficence is the obligation of a physician not to harm the patient. This should scare you. Over the weekend, I saw some disturbing headlines in which, physicians, hospitals, and political pundits, are considering and giving their opinions on whether they will or can deny care to the unvaccinated who contract Covid-19. If you don't believe me, google it. Attached are two examples, but there are many. We don't owe the unvaccinated priority on hospital care https://www.g

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Melissa Mullamphy

Aug 23, 2021
2 min

This one hit a nerve.

She said, “Don't call the doctor, I want to fall asleep peacefully, with your hand in mine.” He told her about the past, how they met, their first kiss. they didn't cry, they smiled. They didn't regret anything, they were grateful. Then she repeated softly, 'I love you forever!' He returned her words, gave her a soft kiss on the forehead. She closed her eyes and fell asleep peacefully with her hand in his. Love is what matters because man comes into this world with nothing ot

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