The Primary Struggles of Healthcare
Our sister company Havas Worldwide Health has just released a white paper, “Helping Hands for Primary Healthcare,” based on a study the agency administered to a broad range of people working in primary healthcare. To better understand the changing conditions facing primary care physicians, who are confronting more challenges than perhaps any other group in [...]
Our American War Hero
[Originally posted in the Danbury (Conn.) News-Times.] Very near to Danbury there lived a true American war hero. His name was Rob J. Lytle Jr., and you may have heard of him when his obituary turned up in local newspapers in 2010. His widow, Lori-Ann Lytle, who lives in New Milford, broke away from custom when [...]
Trendspotting: Web Worriers
A Chicago emergency room doctor recently treated a woman who believed she had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The Internet told her so. What she actually had: the common cold. With eight in 10 Americans now logging on to suss out health information, this variety of self-diagnosis has garnered the nickname “cyberchondria”—fitting, as 90 percent of us acknowledge [...]
