“Save a Nickel – Spend a Dollar”
Our society is more and more focused on today and now, and less concerned with planning for the future.
Nowhere is that more evident than health care. Our health care system is not designed to fix something today in order to save the patient – and the system – pain, time and money later. Primary care physicians and psychiatrists know this. Emergency room physicians encounter the effects. Endocrinologists and other specialists try to encourage patients to look at the long-term, while dealing with the short term. As an otolaryngologist, I treat patients everyday with conditions ranging from chronic infections to cancer that could have been addressed earlier with better outcomes and ultimately less expense.
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Aunt's Cancer Struggle Motivated Millicent Horn to Become Physician
Seeing her aunt fight stage four pancreatic cancer and how her doctors stayed positive throughout her treatment motivated fourth-year University of Kentucky medical student Millicent Horn to pursue medicine.
“I watched one of the greatest people I knew slowly become encompassed by disease that no amount of chemicals or radiation could really cure,” Horn said about her aunt, Linda Denham.
“Even though her doctor knew her prognosis and the type of cancer she had, he stayed very positive and said, ‘This is the next step’. It helped her get through it. Seeing a physician who knew how malicious her disease was and still remain positive—I think that helped give her hope. That ignited my passion toward oncology.”
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Notice of Application for Appointment to the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure
Physicians interested in being considered for a gubernatorial appointment to the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure (KBML) must submit an application and their curriculum vitae to the Kentucky Medical Association by September 6, 2019. Applications are being sought for the KBML four-year term beginning September 1, 2019, and ending August 31, 2023. All applications should be emailed to Laura Hartz at
hartz@kyma.org
.
Click here
to obtain an application.
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Retired Physicians Host Event: “Lesson From the Light—Near Death Experiences”
George E. Webb, M.D., will present “Lesson From the Light—Near Death Experiences,” Tuesday, Sept. 10, at 10 a.m. at the GLMS headquarters, 328 E. Main Street, Louisville. Doctor Webb, former chairman of the department of anesthesiology at the University of Louisville Medical School and retired from hospice and palliative medicine, will share stories of near-death experiences. RSVP to Donna Jones at (502) 736-6326 by Sept. 9. Coffee and doughnuts will be served and spouses are invited to this free event.
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Five physicians join Baptist Health Medical Group
KMA members
Chris Anggelis, M.D., Connie Anggelis,
M.D.,
Gregory Deam,
M.D.,
Michael Flaherty,
M.D., PhD,
and
Matthew Keith,
M.D., PhD,
joined Baptist Health Medical Group. All were formerly with Kentuckiana Heart Specialists.
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Moyer Says "The Kentucky Pregnant Workers Act ensures women can work to support family"
KMA member
Sarah Moyer, M.D.
, director of the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health, says, "The Kentucky Pregnant Workers Act ensures women can work to support family," in op-ed published in
Medical News
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