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		<title>Ethics and Concierge Medicine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ethics of concierge medicine have long been discussed throughout the health care industry. Since the beginning of concierge medicine back in the mid-nineties, the number one debate surrounding concierge medicine has been the ethics behind charging a feee for better service. Should better service be given already? Well, in a perfect world the answer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SigMD Talks Medicare&#8230;Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is the White House making too many assumptions about how successful the health care overhaul will be? Are they placing far too much pressure on our physicians?Whether you’re for or against the health care overhaul, for or against concierge medicine, or on the fence about everything health related, it’s impossible to overlook the amount of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chicagoconciergemd.com/blog/?p=20</link>
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		<title>Health Care Reform and VIP Medicine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While we are still waiting and wondering exactly how each of us will be affected by the health care overhaul, concierge medicine is growing among those concerned. Those American’s who are concerned not only about health care reform, but ultimately about their own personal health, are taking another look at their health situation and how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chicagoconciergemd.com/blog/?p=18</link>
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		<title>Health Care Costs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“According to data from the Concierge Medicine Research Collective, $13 trillion could buy 10 years of round-the-clock on-call medical care for more than 928 people – or for the entire population of the U.S. for 30 years.” – SmartMoney.com
At this moment, actually at probably many moments ago, the total national publci debt outstanding in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chicagoconciergemd.com/blog/?p=16</link>
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		<title>Doctor&#8217;s Unhealthy Interruptions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to ScienceDaily, hospital doctors who are frequently interrupted while working in a clinical environment spend less time on tasks and fail to return to almost a fifth of their jobs in hand, reveals research published ahead of print in the journal Quality and Safety in Health Care. This is a scary proposition considering the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chicagoconciergemd.com/blog/?p=15</link>
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		<title>Brain Hemorrhage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Concierge doctors and patients alike agree; a brain hemorrhage is scary stuff. When it hits, it hits big and fast, and unless you catch it before it happens, or know the symptoms as they immediately occur, you could be in some serious trouble, as Bret Michaels recently found out.
Michaels suffered from a massive brain hemorrhage last month [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chicagoconciergemd.com/blog/?p=14</link>
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		<title>Bartering For Medical Attention</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In concierge medicine, you pay for top-nothc medical services. Services that are innovative and preventative from concierge doctors who are some of the best in their field. When it comes to your health and your families health, would you consider bartering products, like a chicken perhaps, for medical attention? Bartering with your family physician, whether [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chicagoconciergemd.com/blog/?p=13</link>
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		<title>Getting Fed Up With Healthcare Reform?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Medicine is changing, and the old motto &#8220;politics as usual&#8221; is doing nothing good to give Americans confidence in not only their government, but their healthcare. Patients are finding themselves not only done with “Politics as usual,” but done with the entire healthcare field. Concierge medicine is a growing field for many reasons, one of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chicagoconciergemd.com/blog/?p=12</link>
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		<title>SignatureMD Press Release</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Chan sees changing healthcare field drastically affecting patient-doctor relationships
Phoenix, AZ February 23, 2010:  Dr. Kevin Chan, a practicing Phoenix physician, recently brought patients together to tell them things in his office were changing. Instead of hustling to see as many patients as possible a week, Dr. Chan had decided to add a new service [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chicagoconciergemd.com/blog/?p=10</link>
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		<title>30% More Graduating Medical Students To Help Physician Shortage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For some time now, we&#8217;ve been talking about the physician shortage that our country is currently plagued with, and concierge medicine might be the solution to this problem. If you think your appointment wait times are long now, just wait until a new healthcare reform bill goes into affect. With millions of newly insured Americans and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chicagoconciergemd.com/blog/?p=8</link>
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