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A weekly column appearing in local newspapers and blogs. It deals with COIVD issues of interest to residents on the Coast as well as to a broader audience.
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William Miller, MD
Nov 28, 20222 min read
AHMC’s new electronic medical record goes live.
Adventist Health Mendocino Coast (AHMC) hospital goes live this week with a new Electronic Health Record (EHR) called Cerner. Last week...
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William Miller, MD
Nov 21, 20224 min read
New electronic health record at AHMC & a brief history of EHRs.
Adventist Health Mendocino Coast (AHMC) hospital will go live with its new Cerner electronic health record (EHR) on December 1st. This is...
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William Miller, MD
Nov 14, 20224 min read
Influenza and RSV surge in US this winter.
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is an orthopneumovirus that is very common during the winter months each year. In adults, it is one of...
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William Miller, MD
Oct 31, 20225 min read
World Population Reaches 8 billion.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has stated that the human population on Earth will exceed 8 billion by the end of November, 2022. As...
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William Miller, MD
Oct 24, 20224 min read
Cancer Treatment - Part 2: New Horizons
Last week we looked at the history of cancer treatment from ancient times to modern day. We saw how surgery has played the key role in...
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William Miller, MD
Oct 17, 20224 min read
Cancer treatment - Part 1: a Brief History
Great strides have been made in recent years in the treatment of many cancers. For most tumors, the best chance of cure remains early...
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William Miller, MD
Oct 10, 20224 min read
Breast Cancer Screening
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. Breast cancer is a leading cancer in women in the United States, comprising 1/3 of cancers in...
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William Miller, MD
Oct 3, 20225 min read
Flu Season Comes Early.
Our awareness of viral illnesses has become heightened in recent years due to COVID which is now considered to be endemic. I think it...
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William Miller, MD
Sep 19, 20224 min read
The History of Hospitals
Last week our hospital on the coast underwent its Joint Commission site visit for the clinical portion of our accreditation survey. We...
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William Miller, MD
Sep 5, 20226 min read
Polio: is it making a comeback?
In 1988, the World Health Organization resolved to eradicate poliomyelitis; polio for short. This followed the confirmation that the...
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William Miller, MD
Aug 29, 20224 min read
Monkeypox Update
On June 27th, I reported on the recent outbreak of monkeypox which began in England in May with the first case being identified in a...
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William Miller, MD
Aug 22, 20225 min read
Anthony Fauci, the AIDS Epidemic and Me.
Dr. Anthony Fauci announced this week that he will be retiring as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases...
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William Miller, MD
Aug 8, 20224 min read
The High Cost of Drugs in the US.
The cost of prescription drugs in the US is the highest in the world and by a substantial margin. We pay over 250% more for medications...
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William Miller, MD
Jul 25, 20226 min read
Medicare: America’s Single-payer Healthcare System.
Medicare is a national health insurance program started in 1965 to provide coverage for certain health related expenses in Americans age...
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William Miller, MD
Jul 18, 20225 min read
History of Health Insurance
Given current negotiations between Adventist Health and Anthem Blue Cross, I thought it might be interesting to exam how our health care...
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William Miller, MD
Jul 4, 20223 min read
Hospice Services Expanding in Mendocino County
Hospice is a program designed to provide the special care needed for someone at the end of life. We often think of this for patients with...
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William Miller, MD
Jun 27, 20223 min read
Monkeypox.
Monkeypox is a virus in the genus orthopoxvirus, which includes the variola virus that causes the disease smallpox. It was first...
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William Miller, MD
Jun 6, 20224 min read
Living Longer and Healthier: Part 3. Blue Zones
The Blue Zones Project is based on the idea that by studying communities in the world that have a disproportionately high percentage of...
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William Miller, MD
May 23, 20224 min read
Living Longer and Healthier: Part 1. Life Expectancy.
As COVID begins to take more of a backseat to other health concerns, I have received several questions about the future of this weekly...
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William Miller, MD
May 9, 20224 min read
Communication Outage on Coast Was Useful Practice
On Tuesday, May 10th, at approximately 10:40 in the morning, a private construction crew inadvertently drilled into a major communication...
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