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August 2014

West Tennessee Healthcare Foundation Celebrates Anniversary with Campaign

The West Tennessee Healthcare Foundation is celebrating the start of its 30th year with a new look! Foundation President Frank McMeen held a news conference yesterday to roll out a new media campaig ...

Emerging & Reemerging Infectious Diseases

Chikungunya and new strains of influenza are among a list of emerging infectious diseases that have grabbed recent headlines, but reemerging diseases including measles and pertussis are also causing epidemiologists concern across the nation.

FFB Driving the Research to Fight Blindness

When Alessandro Iannaccone, MD, was recruited in 2005 by Barrett Haik, MD, to come to the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s Hamilton Eye Institute he knew he was following his passion, but little did he know that this move would lead him to be the first in the world to treat a fiv ...

Getting the Message Out Is More Important Than Ever

Author documents growing need for pervasive marketing ‘ . . . if a person is going to spend approximately half a million dollars in their lifetime on healthcare, you want that patient for life.’

HEALTHCARE LEADER: Karen “Kay” Jordan

Administrator, Sports, Orthopedics & Spine In sports, numbers and teamwork can play a big part in success on the field. In her role as Administrator of Sports, Orthopedics & Spine (SOS) in Jackson, Tennessee, Kay Jordan is finding those two elements equally as important to success in the clinical setting.

Hey Doc, Best Practices

You attended years of school and training. But by now you know that there’s more to being a doctor than what you learned in the classroom. Sure, a suture can heal and the right medication can manage the in-between time. But a smile goes a long way toward the same and a word of encouragement moves a patient toward their best outcome.

MEDICAL ECONOMICS: When Donkeys Fly

Recently a six-year-old donkey named Nestle visited Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital. And no, this was not some political event.

NASS Takes a Proactive Approach to Evidence-Based Coverage Decisions

In an effort to improve patient access to appropriate, evidence-based care, the North American Spine Society (NASS) recently released detailed policy recommendations for coverage of 13 common spine care treatments, procedures and diagnostics.

PHYSICIAN SPOTLIGHT: Michael D. Calfee, MD

Advanced Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Union City Religious studies and biology may not be the most traditional combination of majors that would result in an orthopedic surgeon. But Michael Calfee, MD, has found a way to integrate the two into his practice at Advanced Orthopedics and Sports Medicine in Union City and in his mission work in Honduras.