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SmartMEDinfo.com provides your patients with effective education.
Patients find out the risks of medication, including what is known and not known about the safety of a drug. SmartMEDinfo.com educates patients so that they can sort out advertising claims from what is actually proven about how well a drug works.
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The prescription drug epidemic is affecting your practice.
Did you know:
• Prescription drug costs increase faster than any other health care expense.
• Prescription drug expenses in the U.S. account for approximately 20% of total health expenses.
• The majority of the top 25 grossing prescriptions are not lifesaving, and many of them were not even in existence a decade ago.
• Drugs are routinely prescribed for conditions for which the drug was not FDA approved, called “off label” prescribing.
• Adverse drug events injure an estimated 1.5 million people each year, at a cost of approximately $3.5 billion. These numbers do not factor in lost wages and productivity, or additional healthcare costs incurred as a result of these injuries.
• Adverse drug reactions are known to be responsible for between 3 percent and 12 percent of hospital admissions, and fatal drug reactions account for about 5 percent of deaths of those patients in hospitals in the United States. Adverse Drug Reactions are estimated to account for the seventh most common cause of death.
Source: Kaiser Family Foundation, Prescription Drug
Trends Fact Sheet
Q: What if your patients were informed of the known possible side effects of every prescription they were given?
A: They would recognize the need to maintain health through non-drug regimens such as chiropractic and nutrition.
Q: What if patients knew how well a drug really worked, or not?
A: Many would decide against taking an optional prescription altogether, and would be more likely to embrace the effective technologies of alternative therapies.
The SmartMEDinfo website gives them the Low Down™ on various medical topics and the full FactFile™ on specific drugs. SmartMEDinfo communicates clearly, making complex medical topics understandable to everyone. Patients get essential information that can be immediately used to make informed decisions about prescription drugs, medical tests and procedures.
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Medical News: Click on SmartMEDinfo.com to get a concise summary and interpretation of the latest-breaking medical news, FDA announcements and new drug warnings, free of the usual reporting bias.
Doctor’s blog: Keep pace with what our lead doctor is uncovering and ongoing helpful tips she gives about how to be in charge of your health care.
LowDown™: Here you will find short videos and in depth articles providing information that your medical doctor may not be telling you or may not know. Explore the expanding library of articles and videos explaining the controversial sides of conventional medical advice.
Fact Files™: Look up individual fact sheets on common prescription drugs, and find out what the drug does, what’s known and not known about its safety, and how well it actually works (or not).
How to be a Smart Consumer: Watch the introductory video and see the series of brief articles for an orientation to your rights and responsibilities as a smart health care consumer. [view article index]
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Meet the founder of SmartMEDinfo.com™
Moira Dolan, MD is a Board Certified Internal Medicinephysician and Executive Director of theMedical Accountability Network. Dr. Dolaneducates widely on Informed Consent togroups including employees, emergency responsepersonnel, school boards, elected officials, public health boards, physicians, public defenders, community groups, fraud examiners and University seminars. Dr. Dolan periodically testifies to legislative bodies as well as at FDA advisory committee hearings. Dr. Dolan serves as a consultant to private industry, government agencies, advocacy groups and the legal profession. Dr.Dolan is author of the forthcoming book, Smart Medicine©, which defines a new role for patients in health care decisions.
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