Summer is here let those legs show!

To some people varicose veins and spider veins are a simply a cosmetic concern, but for others they can often cause pain and discomfort. With the new medical laser technology there is a way to eliminate your varicose and spider veins without surgery.

The Radiologists at the Diversified Vein and Interventional Clinic are experts in the nonsurgical treatment of varicose veins. Using the Endovascular Laser Venous System (ELVS) unsightly varicose veins are eliminated in our outpatient office,  typically within an hour. One of the many benefits is there is virtually no down time.  Patients are  walking after the procedure,  and you are able to return to normal activity within a day or two.

Spider veins are a smaller version of a varicose vein. Most often, people who have spider veins do not have any kind of symptoms. Spider veins are easily treated by our Interventional Radiologists in a matter of minutes. There are very few side effects and risks associated with these procedures.

For more information please click here: http://www.divrad.com/index.php/expertise/details/varicose-vein-treatment/ or call the Diversified Vein and Laser Clinic at 303.226.7225.

Time for a change, The NY Times reports

The New York Times reported on the new model of healthcare that UnitedHealth Group is testing in a handful of states including Colorado. This plan gives patients what they call a medical “home”  that oversees their care even when the patient is seen by specialists or requires hospitalization. The medical home model is intended to fix some of the major shortcomings of healthcare delivery in the United States and according to Dr. Jim Dearing of Phoenix, AZ, “This gives us the opportunity to create a model to allow family physicians to practice medicine the way we used to practice in the past.”

“Subspecialization adds value to the patient’s medical care,” adds Sean Bryant, MD of Diversified Radiology headquartered in Denver, CO which provides specialized radiography reading services to healthcare facilities in the metro area and continents away.

Today’s medical insurers typically reward doctors for how many tests or procedures they perform on the patient vs. how effective their care is. The general physician isn’t compensated for helping patients navigate specialists or follow-up care. Using the home care model, UnitedHealth has said it will compensate physicians with a quarterly management fee for overseeing their patients’ care plus bonuses will be awarded based on patient satisfaction, especially when that monitoring prevents costly and unnecessary hospital stays.

The facts of life: The bees and the specialists

When it comes to one’s health, most patients entrust the management of their care to a highly trained medical doctor. On occasion, particularly when the patient’s needs demand it, that doctor is a specialist. Trained in all the same basics as generalist physicians, the specialist has invested additional years into specifically studying particular body parts or functions.

The benefit of having a specialist (sometimes called a sub specialist) involved in your medical care is the additional years of study and practice that the specialist brings to the consultation.

It’s not so different than the specialization practiced by bees in a study recently conducted by Jaime Pawelek, a distinguished UC Berkeley Researcher. That study concluded that bees can be separated into two categories of female pollen preferences, either specialists or generalists. Specialist bees tap into the pollen in a few or even just one plant species. Generalist bees, on the other hand, are less picky about the flowers they visit.

Diversified Radiology employs dozens of specialist radiologists in multiple fields including Breast Imaging Radiologists, Body Imaging Radiologists, Interventional Radiologists, Musculoskeletal Radiologists, Neuro Radiologists, Nuclear Medicine Radiologists, and Pediatric Radiologists. These experts read and interpret only the X-rays and imaging procedures for which they trained 100% of the time.  The benefit of having the various experts on board means that treating doctors are able to be more acutely accurate in their prescribed treatments.