One considerable advantage of using such a business is the serious amount of time it will save you. Just imagine the minutes wasted, each month – consider the invoicing, handling and tracking and all of the similar tasks that make up a health center’s running. It diverts attention away from the treatment of clients.

Trusting an expert provider means that they deal with all this, not to mention several extra aspects. For example, collection and delivery services, credit checking and copying. The provider’s duties might even extend so far as setting up payment programs, or even processing workers’ compensation. By choosing to hand off these responsibilities, you will allow your professional employees additional time to concentrate on their key objective – taking care of the welfare of patients in the best possible manner. All of this could save you a massive amount of cash and take all those worries off your plate. Clinic employees have other things to worry about and we cannot charge them to stay up-to-date with complex developments within billing industry laws. A physician billing service will focus exclusively on these specialist subjects. They are experts in such concerns with associated codes, rules and technologies related to medical financial processes. Not only will this save time, effort and money, this will reduce practically any risk of you facing judicial complications. Attention to detail is utterly vital in finance management departments. When you work with expert assistance, you will gain peace of mind, safe in the knowledge that standards are established to recognize and amend any unlucky faults in no time at all.

Hiring professional a specialized service such as this is an intelligent financial investment for doctors, GPs and physiotherapists, and services like health centers and clinics. However, just make sure you don’t allow concerns like size and costing to form the main aspect of your decision – choose the business that will best meet your financial needs.

I grew up in the weight loss industry. My father has been helping people lose weight with hypnosis for as long as I can remember. I guess you could say it has been a family business since my big brother Dr. Patrick K. Porter is the founder and creator of the most successful hypnosis and self help franchise in the world.

When I graduated high school I got my first job in the family business and was sure that was what I wanted to do with my life. Can you think of anything better? Helping people get healthy! It is such a great feeling.

I worked with my brother for a few months and for some reason I started to hear a different call all together-the military. At first I thought about joining the Air Force, but the more I thought about it the more I wanted the designation of being a United States Marine. So, on April 23, 1993 I hopped on a plane to Parris Island, South Carolina. I spent the next 3 and 1/2 years serving my country, and I don’t regret a minute of it.

When I left the Marine Corps I was a single mom who really needed a steady income. So when my brother made an offer for me to move all the way across the country to Virginia I jumped at the chance.

I started off as a receptionist with dreams of one day becoming a hypnotist myself. All that changed when on short notice our salesperson informed Patrick that she needed the day off and he asked me to fill in. I was happy to help and I did my first evaluation. An evaluation is where we determined if someone was a good candidate for hypnosis and then we recommended the appropriate program for them. I loved it. I loved the feeling of motivating someone to make a change in their life.

From that day on I was a full time evaluator. Gone where the thoughts of training to be a hypnotist. I was able to get people the help they needed and I was good at it.

Keep in mind this whole time I was thin. Still a size 6 and feeling like I would never have to worry about my weight because I was in the right place and of course I knew everything. HA!

Little did I know that one of my greatest joys, meeting my husband, would begin a spiral of weight gain. I remember my client’s complaints, at the time I called them excuses, about how they had to cook for their family and it was too hard to stick to a diet. “But that is what is great about hypnosis!” I would tell them, “It’s not a diet, you just don’t want to eat those foods anymore!” I would watch client after client lose weight, gain self-esteem, and basically get their life back.

When my husband and I had our daughter, my second child, I gained more weight with that pregnancy than I did with my first one. I thought that it was okay because I was getting older and I was in the right place to lose it.

As the years went by I still helped client after client reach their goal. I even a hypnotist. But I couldn’t get past a size 10.

Have you ever been so close to a problem that even though the answer was right there you didn’t think that it was the answer for you? I thought I didn’t need hypnosis because I was a hypnotist and I already knew everything.

I had decided that I was really going to get focused on weight loss and each time I tried I failed. I started to see the reality in my life that all my clients had been talking about all those years. Funny how those same challenges they were talking about that I called “excuses” weren’t “excuses” when they were coming out of my mouth. They were genuine reasons why I was gaining weight.

The next thing I knew my daughter was three and I had made the leap into a size 12. I couldn’t even blame my weight gain on pregnancy anymore, my daughter was walking and talking and I was getting bigger.

My husband and I had been talking about wanting another child. I used this excuse to stop trying all together. I kept thinking to myself, “Why go through all the trouble to lose it, and then gain it all back again when I have another baby?” Eventually I got pregnant for the third, and last, time.

This year our youngest son will be 3 and I was again back in the same boat, but this time I was a stay at home mom. And the food was way too easy to get ahold of. I kept gaining until I was pushing a size 16!! When I saw the scale I wanted to faint! I weighed the same amount that my husband did when we met!

So many questions started running through my mind: How could I have let myself go so badly? Why am I not using what I know works?

I sat myself down and treated myself like a client and the first I wrote down on my paper was G.O.Y.A. This was something I learned from my father. When I would be sitting with a client who might be struggling and giving me all her “excuses” I would write down these letters. Underneath of that I would fill in the meanings for each letter. So I sat there looking at “Get Off Your Ass!”

That that is exactly what I did. I remembered the 10 steps I would use with clients when they started asking me if there was some wonder supplement out there that would help them lose weight.

I started (and still am) listening to hypnosis processes, even making some myself, since I am a hypnotist. If you want to buy any, of course I suggest my brothers. You can get them at www.hypnosistogo.com.

After the first 30 minutes I started to notice all the things my clients had noticed. The best one was control – I had control! Not struggling until I was sweating type if control, but steady, “I don’t really care if I ever have that piece of chocolate or that Little Debbie cake again” kind of control. IT WAS AWESOME! That convinced me that I was on the right path.

I feel that I have conquered the first 4 steps in creating permanent weight loss because that is what I’m going for! So if you are of like mind below are the first four steps:

1. I’ve stopped bingeing. I am able to leave food on my plate (and my kids
plates too).

2. Cravings – Totally gone!

3. No more emotional eating. My mind is full with the thought of success,
so I am bored. And because I’m using hypnosis I am not stressed!

4. Snacking is a thing of the past.

The next 6 steps require a little more than just sitting back, closing your eyes and waiting for the changes to come. In the upcoming posting I will be going over them just I used to with my clients.

The important thing to remember is that you do not, I repeat, do not move on to the next step until you have conquered the current one.

I’ve made the above changes since January 1, 2006 and I have lost over 3 inches in my waist, my clothes are noticeably loser, but I have not weighed myself. If you want to know why, I will explain that in a later posting.

The most important thing you can take away from article is if you are ready to lose the weight. By that I don’t mean “try”, because trying implies failure. When you try to do something you are not committing yourself to success. If you are ready, I will be giving the tips that clients used to pay a lot of money to hear, but you will get them for free. So, use them!! We can do it, you can do it. If you found this blog then you are possibly struggling and frustrated that nothing is working. I truly believe that I can help you – while I’m helping myself!

I welcome your comments, and of course advice!!

Remember – Nothing tastes as good as thin feels!

I’m a mother of three, and I finally found the secret to losing weight! And I feel great. I grew up in the weight loss industry and I was even a United States Marine. With all that knowledge I still let myself go, but now I’m finally doing all the things that I used to advise others to do and “Oh, my God!” It actually works.

Weight loss plan is not a one day effort to perfect health. With weight loss methods like Atkins diet or South beach, the process of losing weight can be gradual. With diet pills like Phentermine or Adipex, the rate of weight loss can be rapid. Where as with bariatric surgeries, the patient recovers quickly from the hands of obesity. Whether you are obese or overweight, for a patient undergoing obesity treatment or taking up a diet pill plan, it’s so vital that you follow certain tips to attain the best results in curbing obesity.

Useful weight loss tips for a lifetime

• Your day should begin with water. drink lots of it, there is no such efficient purifier like water
• Don’t skip any of your meals especially your breakfast. People often ignore breakfasts as part of their dieting habits. It’s stupid and is a weight gaining phenomenon
• Snack your day with lovely salads and nutrient rich fruits. If you don’t like apples, try oranges or melons
• No sodas, coffees and such beverages on a daily basis as they can encourage obesity
• Take your meals on time. Discipline regularizes your digestive system and help you to be more health friendly
• Eat all that you like in limited quantities. ‘In Moderation’ is the key word in a patient’s dictionary
• Keep one day for eating what you like in order to bring down the craving in you
• Keep walking, don’t stop that habit for it’s so good for health
• Learn more about health concepts, obesity and health related diseases so that you are aware of the obesity syndrome and get keen to look after yourself better

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I remember the day when I learned that my dad had diabetes. I never truly understood what it meant but I knew it was something bad. I was 12 years old.

Every Sunday, my family always makes it a point to bond and have fun together. After going to church, my father would always brings us to the beach where he would teach us how to swim. It’s only a kilometer away from where we lived, so sometimes we would just jog or hike there. Along the way, he would tell us stories about his childhood and how he survived a hard life as a teenager, because his father died too soon. He worked his way up to get a good job as a sales manager and he was proud of it. We always have fun. My father provides us with everything. His dreams for us were always big and ambitious. Often he talks about how he wanted to give us a better life; to send all of us to school and college to finish a degree. That is why he works so hard to make ends meet. A large family of 6 children like us certainly needs a family man who not only cares but works hard as well. I can see my father working day and night not minding the stress and pressure just to support and feed his large family. He has always been an energetic man, with so much compassion for his work and his family. But that was before diabetes set in.

Slowly, I saw changes in my father’s behavior. Not that he became less of a loving father or a good provider. But his energy slowly waned. I would find him home and in bed sleeping the whole afternoon. He didn’t move as much or go to the beach with us on Sundays. He didn’t have the same energy he used to have before the disease and he seemed to be always tired and easily get fatigued. Most often he argued with my mom about his diet. He became irritated when my mom reprimanded him about not sticking to his meal plan. His numb feet kept him from making long walks or hiking with us. My sister and I massaged his aching feet every night. He became very conscious of not hurting or cutting himself. He was always hungry and thirsty and soon his vision became blurred.

One day he had an accident trying to save me and his right leg was injured. I saw a devastated look on my father’s face. The wound never healed and soon enough the doctor broke the worst news I had in my whole life. When gangrene set in, the whole infected area became black and smelly. It was not a good sight, and for my father, it meant gathering up all his courage and facing the worst possible consequence.. AMPUTATION.

He looked so weak but I saw courage in his eyes. He was ready for the operation. After long, agonizing hours of waiting, he was out from the operating room and into the recovery room. Hours later we saw him get up a smile with a teary eye.

For eight years he suffered but without complaint. He was getting around with one leg. He still managed to provide for us and his spirit to go on ,despite the disability was astounding. He became more spiritual than he used to be. Then his left leg started to develop sores; his blood sugar level soared up. Then the sores became ulcers and they never healed and soon a second amputation. He then became weary and emotional. Not a word does he speak that doesn’t bring tears to his eyes, when he talks about his life. We would gather around him and cheer him up. Everyone in the family cared for him. We would take turns in preparing his food and attending to his needs. My mom carried the greatest burden of emotional pain because every day she saw the man whom she dearly loved, in agony because of a disease that has taken not only his limbs but his pride as well.

Over the years my father developed heart disease and high blood pressure among other things and two years after his second amputation, he succumbed to death because of complications.

My father died at the age of 55. His example of courage and love has been our guide in following our own paths in life. Diabetes had taken so much from him. Years where he could have done so much if only he hadn’t acquired the disease. Now, everyone in the family is making a very conscious effort to stay away from this dreadful disease. Diabetes with not take any one of us again.

Michael Russell

Your Independent guide to Diabetics

In fact, the vast majority of emergency care and transportation services on the East Coast at that time were handled by funeral homes who had one of their hearses equipped with a stretcher, a box of bandages, an oxygen bottle and a backboard and were staffed by young men whose primary qualifications were that they could deal with funeral home business, had a driver’s license, would drive fast, and didn’t puke at the sight of blood. The job of the ambulance crew was simple; “Load and Go!”

I was privileged to have been an integral part of the transition of emergency services from the scenario I outlined into a highly complex system. Within the course of a few years the “victim” was now called the “patient,” the ambulance would (mostly) not be moved from the scene of accident, illness or injury until he or she was stable, and the young men were doing highly technical medical things (as certified Paramedics) in the field that most doctors didn’t know how to do in a hospital.

Prior to becoming a paramedic, as a basic EMT I had a bag of tricks that ran out in a matter of minutes (or worse!). All I had to work with was my head, hands and heart. I would then experience myself as just a human being in the back of an ambulance with another human being and we were facing the limits of our own humanity together. It was there that I got my first glimpse of what it means to be a healer.

And then, seemingly overnight, I found myself in possession of a highly sophisticated arsenal of tools and support that turned me away from just being a guy in the back of an ambulance into what I learned to define as a Flesh Mechanic.

It was years before I realized that is what I had become. Like most of my peers – not only in emergency services but in every branch of healing – I had begun wanting to be a healer but had found, just by sheer volume of exposure to debility and death and the complexity of the medical system, it was easy, if not seemingly essential, to hide.

And that realization, in the form of a question, became the theme of the next approximate 30 years of my exploration of the healing arts: How does one maintain one’s humanity while being groomed and reinforced to be a technically proficient machine?

There are so many things that we are not taught, that are neglected, or that are overwhelmed by the massive volume of technical information we must absorb and use. Our consciousness, at first ruled by our hearts (“I’ve got to help”), shifts to our heads (“First do A, then do B, then…”). Before long, whatever progress we are making in pursuit of our powers (and satisfactions) as healers takes a back seat to “keeping up” with the work.

The end result is building a series of increasingly thicker shells to insulate ourselves from the person in our care; to distance ourselves from experiencing the others’ pain so we can be the professionals we’re asked to be. In the process, we end up hardening ourselves to not only the work, but life.

While seeking to articulate my experience as a medic (in a movie, Healer – opening night film of the 1994 Santa Barbara International Film Festival – and book, A Paramedic’s Journey: 18 Things Healers Learn), I came to recognize that even within the context of an extremely “grounded” profession such as emergency medicine, I was called upon to deal with principles of an “esoteric” nature that spoke more of the orientation of the healer toward life than anything else.

The more I’d fight these principles, the more painful it was to do my work. As time went on, I learned about other healers and how they carried themselves in their work. I began to identify certain commonalities in their experiences. I checked them against my own experiences, and then worked with the principles in other areas of my healing work. What I discovered was, rather than seeking to distance themselves from the experiences of which they are a part, healers through all ages have sought connection.

Trial and error gave me a picture of what it means to be a healer in the back of an ambulance. Continued exploration, and a broadening of my search resulted in coming to better understand that we are all healers – in the moments we choose to be.

The 18 articles that will follow are adapted from my book, A Paramedic’s Journey: 18 Things Healers Learn. As in the book, they are not listed in hierarchal or linear order. I offer them for you to integrate into your life and practice, for the good of all.

Russ Reina shares over 35 years of experience in the healing arts through his web site http://mauihealingartist.com It is a potent resource for those wishing to deepen their abilities in connection and develop their powers as healers. For a powerful free tool to explore your inner world, please check out his adjunct site http://thestoryofthis.net

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