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.
Errors in medical test results are common. For example, studies report that up to 12 percent of mammogram results are…
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…
The old saying “What goes around, comes around” is the best way to describe what is happening in the hospital…
A friend of mine recently asked me if he had the right to negotiate fees with his doctors. My friend…
The pandemic dramatically disrupted the health-care system over the past three years. From free vaccines to the expansion of telemedicine,…
You have probably never thought of loneliness as a disease, but, more and more, loneliness is being viewed as a…
Prior to the 1980s, health-care advertising was barely noticeable. The bulk of the products advertised on television or in magazines…
Health screening tests are designed to identify serious medical conditions early. The earlier a condition is identified, the better the…
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…
