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• Orlando Health helps patients understand medical bills

  Understanding how to decode and interpret medical bills is akin to learning a new language — or several at once.

• How Patient and Family Advisory Councils Improve Your Patient Experience

    Patient and Family Advisory Councils play a vital role in delivering quality care to both patients and families. Simply put, they allow

• How Depression Affects Cancer Patients

  Cancer affects millions of people every year, but everyone has a different experience after receiving a diagnosis and during their treatment. As a clinical psychologist, I often hear misconceptions about how people are supposed to feel after they are diagnosed with cancer. There’s a myth that it is normal for cancer patients to experience depression—but I’m here to tell you that it isn’t true.

• How Compassionate Communication Improves Patient Care

  Whether a patient is sitting in a doctor’s office, waiting in an exam room or waking up after surgery, they often feel a mix of emotions, including uncertainty, fear and vulnerability. They want answers. They want the truth. But even as doctors share information with them, they want more than just the facts -- they want it conveyed in a caring manner.

• New Solution for High-Risk Heart Patients

  A trusted technology is being put to a new use for heart patients once considered too high-risk for surgery.

• How Robotic Surgery Benefits Hernia Patients

  Hernias occur when organs or fatty tissue squeeze through a weakened layer of tissue into another area of the body where they do not belong. A hernia can occur in various places in the body, such as the abdomen, groin, diaphragm or the site of a previous incision.

• Doctors Sometimes Prescribe Drugs Patients Don’t Need

  More than a quarter of doctors admit to prescribing medication that likely won’t have many therapeutic benefits for patients, according to a recent survey of more than 5,000 American College of Physicians (ACP) member physicians.

• When Should High-Risk Patients Get Vaccinated?

  Millions of people get vaccinated every year for conditions ranging from the flu, measles and chickenpox to HPV and meningococcal disease, a potentially deadly bacterial infection.

• How Robotic Surgery Advances Care for Patients

  The modern version of laparoscopic, or minimally invasive surgery, first emerged in the 1980s, but in the last 30 years the medical community has experienced significant advancements in laparoscopic surgery that have improved the way we care for patients.

• Physical Therapy Is Key for ALS Patients

  As “Euphoria” star Eric Dane, also long beloved as Dr. McSteamy on “Grey’s Anatomy,” publicly shares his battle with ALS, many are curious about this diagnosis and how people live with it.