Blog Posts News, Updates, & Resources from The Leifer Group
After I Heard the Words, “It’s Cancer”
As the author of After You Hear It’s Cancer: A Guide to Surviving the Difficult Journey Ahead, I thought I understood the magnitude of the impact of a cancer diagnosis on patients. After all, I had written about it at length – describing that instant when one hears...
How to Become an Empowered Health Care Consumer
This video introduces a soon-to-be produced series of educational health care videos designed to facilitate consumer/patient empowerment. https://youtu.be/SkJpIif0IaU
Does a Prayer A Day Keep Illness at Bay?
Research into the impact of religious and spiritual beliefs on our health continues. When we are sick, we rely on our physicians to heal us. And for good reason: they possess the knowledge, tools, drugs, and procedures to conquer many maladies. But not all illnesses...
What Every Woman Should Know about Prostate Cancer
Become an empowered partner by learning about this common cancer type. If You Are Like Most American Women, chances are you serve as the key decision-maker when it comes to the health of your family— whether it’s selecting a physician, deciding on treatment...
How to Transform a Doctor’s Appointment into A Shared Opportunity for Learning and Collaboration
Patients’ often express varying levels of dissatisfaction following appointments with their physicians. One of the most frequent complaints centers on a lack of clear, empathic communication whereby the patient and physician exchange information that not only serves...
Post-Traumatic Growth in Cancer Patients
The Transforming Power of Stress There are few life events that can transform our daily reality more swiftly than a diagnosis of cancer. A once neatly planned future can seemingly evaporate in the wake of an overwhelming existential threat. The degree to which we...
Candidates: What is Your Detailed Plan for Improving Health Care?
This article, from the Business Journal, calls on candidates to go far beyond simply bashing Obamacare and articulate a cogent path to a value-driven health care system....
What is Required to Create Disruptive Innovation in Health Care (and why it doesn’t exist presently)
This article, published in the on-line edition of Hospitals & Health Networks, takes a hard look at the missing phenomenon of disruptive innovation within health care. Have a look:...
RECENT ARTICLES FROM THE BUSINESS JOURNAL (National Edition)
Dec 7, 2015, 10:54 AM EST Has the time arrived to disintermediate health insurers? As employers struggle with the need to control ever-escalating health care costs while also providing some type of health benefit to their employees, they are seeking new models that...