Charles B. Inlander, a consumer advocate and health-care consultant based in Fogelsville, Pennsylvania. He was the founding president of the nonprofit People’s Medical Society, a consumer-advocacy organization credited with key improvements in the quality of US health care, and is the author or coauthor of more than 20 consumer-health books.
The demand for mental health services has exploded over the past few years. Blame it, in part, on the COVID…
Eight years ago, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor. I had just one day to check out the neurosurgeon…
There are many things about our health-care system that cause anxiety. Issues such as getting a reasonably quick appointment with…
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You have probably never thought of loneliness as a disease, but, more and more, loneliness is being viewed as a…
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Finding a competent and honest caregiver to help take care of a family member or loved one is a complicated…
The delivery of medicine has changed dramatically over the past 50 years. While you still go to a doctor for…
There’s an old axiom that the most dangerous place to be when you are sick is in a hospital. Hospitals…
The COVID-19 pandemic brought to light the difficulty we health-care consumers often have making sense out of medical information. For…
One of the most frequent complaints I hear from medical consumers is that they do not understand what their doctors…
A recent poll found that more than 40 percent of Americans have health-care debt. Health-care debt is one of the…