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“I greatly appreciate the effort of large, medium-sized and small enterprises which ensure the network of services and activities carried out in dealing with the tourism sector”.
Dianne Kiehl, a nurse and executive director of the Business Health Care Group, periodically is asked for advice when an employee at one of the coalition's members has a serious illness.
It's an example of how people often are at a loss on where to get even basic information when navigating the health care system.
The Business Health Care Group, a coalition that includes some of the largest employers in southeastern Wisconsin, hopes that a service now available to employees and their family members will offer some help.
The coalition has contracted with Best Doctors Inc. to offer people access to second opinions based on a review of their medical records, advice on treatment options and other medical information.
Best Doctors, based in Boston, is best known for its lists frequently featured in advertisements - lists that Kiehl acknowledges merit some skepticism.
"There is no way to definitively say who are the best doctors," she said.
That's because little information is publicly available on the quality of care provided by physicians.
The Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality, for example, has spent almost a decade developing and reporting measures on the performance of physician groups. It now tracks 32 measures. But those measures provide just a snapshot. There are few measures for specialists. And the collaborative is years away from being able to track the performance of individual physicians.
But Best Doctors' lists, which are based largely on physician surveys, are not what interested the Business Health Care Group.
The coalition's members instead were interested in the company's services that could provide patients with more information and help them make better decisions.
Consultations with doctors that include a review of medical records and a report that the doctor will go over with the patient.
Access to physicians to ask general questions when a patient has a confirmed diagnosis but questions about a treatment plan.
Online tools for patients facing surgery that help them determine whether less invasive treatments are an appropriate option.
"The whole focus is improving the quality of care," said Evan Falchuk, vice chairman of Best Doctors.
The consultations will begin with a nurse taking a patient's history and then getting copies of his or her medical records. A doctor or doctors will then review the case. For cancer patients, Best Doctors will get pathology samples.
The service is used the most by cancer patients.
"It's hard for patients to know what to do," Falchuk said.
Best Doctors, which employs about 520 people, has about 5 million customers in the United States.
Its services are part of the push toward shared decision-making - giving patients the tools and information to make informed decisions about their care based on their preferences and values as opposed to deferring to a doctor.
"People make the best decisions for themselves," Kiehl said.
They also often opt for less-invasive treatments when they understand their options.
That's particularly important when there isn't a consensus on what is the best treatment. The result can be seen in the wide variation in how physicians practice.
For example, people covered by Medicare are twice as likely to have heart bypass surgery if they live in Kenosha instead of Madison, and they are twice as likely to have back surgery if they live in Two Rivers instead of La Crosse, according to a recent report by the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice.
"When you are sick, it's OK to ask questions," Falchuk said.
That is something that many people don't do - and even when they do, they may not understand or even remember the answers.
"The No. 1 thing is don't be shy," he said.
This doesn't mean not respecting a doctor's training. But there's nothing wrong with asking what he or she thinks about a treatment option.
"It certainly is a good thing for people to be engaged," Falchuk said.
The Business Health Care Group hopes that Best Doctors encourages that. And Kiehl said the initial response has been strong.
"The consumers love it," she said. "So far, we are getting rave reviews."
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At S$10.9 a month, the subscription service offers unlimited free delivery and member discounts, says the UK-based food delivery operator, which first trialled the service in its home market last year.
Food delivery operator Deliveroo is extending its subscription service to Singapore, offering unlimited free delivery for a monthly fee of S$10.9 (US$8).
The Deliveroo Plus subscription service also includes exclusive discounts for members each month, according to the UK-headquartered company. Subscribers who enrol by November 2018 also get the first month free.
Deliveroo charges a S$3 delivery fee for each order in Singapore, where more than half of its customers chalk up at least three orders a month.
The subscription service, which was first piloted in the UK last year, currently also is available in Spain, France, and Ireland.
Deliveroo's Singapore general manager Siddharth Shanker said: "Deliveroo Plus presents a fantastic way for us to offer better value for money to customers. The UK launch showed us that people really do love the service and Deliveroo is working on making it even better with tons of additional promotions, rewards, and discounts from their favourite Deliveroo restaurants."
The food delivery vendor last month also launched its delivery-only kitchen service Deliveroo Editions in Singapore, allowing customers to choose dishes from multiple restaurants in a single order. This offering, however, has yet to be made nationwide and is available only in specific areas.
Apart from Singapore, Deliveroo also operates in 12 countries including Australia and Hong Kong.
The expansion of its service offerings comes amidst increasing competition in the Singapore market, which now includes providers such as Foodpanda, Honestbee, and GrabFood.
Ride-sharing company Grab, in particular, has raised funds to the tune of US$2 billion and is looking to bolster its service portfolio to become an "everyday super app", where it aims to facilitate essential services consumers need daily, including transport, food delivery, and payments.
Rescuers are still searching for a fishing boat which went missing with six men on board off the coast of Sharjah.
Officials from the Jordanian consulate in Dubai confirmed three of its nationals were on the vessel when it disappeared on Thursday.
The three others are understood to include an Emirati man and two Egyptian nationals.
The boat sailed from a Sharjah port on December 27 and may now have entered Iranian waters.
Iranian authorities have been asked to assist as emergency services from the UAE continue their search.
“The ministry has directed our embassy in Tehran to address the Iranian Foreign Ministry for follow-up,” a spokesman from the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign and Expatriate Affairs said.
Sharjah Police did not respond to a request for comment.
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A Jamaican man who won $100 million in the lottery had a most unusual way of accepting his prize money: by putting on the mask of the infamous "Ghostface" murder from the Scream movies and TV series to accept his Super Lotto check!
Clearly valuing his privacy, the man (identified only as "A. Campbell") came to Spanish Court Hotel in St. Andrew Parish, Kingston, Jamaica, in the Ghostface mask, and "a light-brown overhaul and black leather gloves," according to Loop. It had taken 54 days for Campbell to claim his ticket, causing the Super Lotto parent company, Supreme Ventures Limited, to put out ads urging the winner not let the 90-day deadline to claim winnings expire.
In Campbell's own telling, he picked his winning numbers (10, 14, 16, 25, 27, and super ball 5) from a dream that he had. His delay in collecting seems to have been due to the fact that his unprecedented good luck also came with a serious hit of bad: Campbell claims he fell seriously ill, just after receiving his winning ticket!
"I looked at my ticket and ran into my bathroom and said, 'I won! I won!' From the day I found out that I won, I've been sick," Campbell said. "My head hurt me for three days because I was thinking so much. [Wondering] if what I've been longing for really come true. I had a belly ache for two weeks, sometimes I feel so much pain I forgot that I had won."
Apparently, this illness wasn't the only trouble that Campbell has had: he described his life as "a struggle," and is asserting that he wants to use his winnings to change that bad fortune: "I want to get a house, I want to get a nice house. I haven't found it yet, but I'll be looking for one soon."
Clearly the circumstances of Campbell's life make him feel as though having his identity fully out there would be too much of a risk. Still, using the Ghostface Scream mask is a pretty aggressive way of doing it. The mask first debuted in Wes Craven's 1996 horror satire, in which two deranged high school boys terrorize their town and a young girl named Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), playing on tropes from the horror / slasher genre. The Ghostface mask was used to conceal the fact that the killer was actually not one, but two people working together - a twist that ironically became its own gimmicky trope of the horror genre, thereafter.
The Scream TV series was airing on MTV for two seasons. Season 3 will supposedly reboot the series, but it has been held up by some convoluted legal issues, with fans still waiting to learn the official premiere date.
A reunited Destiny’s Child has recorded a new song for a forthcoming greatest hits compilation. “Nuclear” is the group’s first track since 2004 and features production by both Pharrell and Beyoncé. It will be included on Love Songs, which spotlights the group’s love songs (duh), and arrives Jan. 29 on Legacy/Columbia records. Coupled with today's rumblings about a new Justin Timberlake record, it's clear the early’s '00s are back again. Break out the Ugg boots.
In related news, an underboob-flashing Beyoncé tells GQ that her new solo album could be out as early as April. Its first single is rumored to be a collaboration with Lady Gaga called “Ratchet,” and it could show up during Beyoncé’s Super Bowl halftime performance next month.
Historic heirlooms worth nearly £700,000 were stolen when thieves raided Goodwood House, near Chichester, on Thursday (January 13).
Sussex Police has made a nationwide appeal for information as to the whereabouts of the jewellery, which includes a diamond tiara and a ring that belonged to Charles II’s mistress.
The valuable items belong to aristocrats Lord and Lady March, owners of the Goodwood Estate, with the couple ‘devastated’ at the crime.
Detective inspector Till Sanderson said: “The theft of these beautiful and treasured items have left the victims Lord and Lady March devastated at their loss.
“An intruder broke into the house sometime after midnight on Wednesday (January 13) and took thousands of pounds worth of jewels and watches, many of which are irreplaceable.
The historic items, with ‘huge’ sentimental value, include an 1820 diamond tiara, worth in the region of £400,000, and an antique diamond necklace from the first half of the 19th century, worth in the region of £200,000.
An emerald intaglio and diamond ring from 1800, engraved with Duchess’s coronet and monogram CL for Louise de Keroualle, mistress of Charles II, was also targeted.
Police added more than 40 items were stolen including emerald, diamond and sapphire rings, earrings, bracelets and necklaces as well as antique Rolex and Girard Perregaux watches.
DI Sanderson added: “Working with Lord and Lady March we are doing all we can try to trace the stolen treasures, liaising with auction houses, stately homes, dealers and those with specialist knowledge.
A 26-year-old man from Hampshire has been arrested and is currently in custody.
Former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi yesterday hit out at the BCCI after the apex body revoked Rajasthan Cricket Association's suspension on the condition that he stays away from its functioning. The RCA was suspended in 2014 when Modi stood and triumphed in the state body's elections. The domestic and age-group competitions were taken care of by the BCCI, which lifted the suspension at its Special General Meeting (SGM) here.
"Wow! Amazing. Not been in India for seven years. But the crooks in BCCI and IPL are even afraid of my name. Clowns are just living off what I created for India. "Good luck to these jokers who never did a day's work in their life except live off what others created," Modi wrote on Twitter. The BCCI had suspended Modi in 2010 holding him guilty on 22 charges.
STONEY CREEK, Ontario—GFA (formerly Gospel for Asia, www.gfa.ca) has issued an urgent prayer appeal on behalf of one of its field-partner workers who was abducted at gunpoint in Myanmar, formerly Burma.
Tun N., aged 41, who pastors a congregation in the country’s western Sittwe District, was last seen when he was taken from his home the evening of Jan. 19. Married with three children, he leads a church of around 50 members.
“We are extremely concerned for Pastor Tun’s safety, and we appeal to Christians around the world to join us in praying for his release without harm,” said GFA founder Dr. K.P. Yohannan.
Armed members of a rebel group abducted Pastor Tun, telling him that their leader wanted to ask him some questions. The incident was reported to local officials, who have not been able to locate him. Pastor Tun’s wife, local church members, and regional church leaders have been unsuccessful in learning his whereabouts.
Pastor Tun is a graduate of GFA’s field partner’s seminary in Yangon. His abduction is the first incident of its kind for GFA-supported ministry in Myanmar, which includes several hundred congregations.
“Just as the apostle Peter was miraculously freed from jail as his friends interceded for him, so we hope to see Pastor Tun restored to his family as his brothers and sisters in Christ pray on his behalf,” said Yohannan.
GFA World ( www.gfa.ca) has – for more than 30 years ‒ provided humanitarian assistance and spiritual hope to millions across Asia, especially among those who have yet to hear the Good News. In 2017, this included more than 70,000 sponsored children, free medical camps conducted in more than 1,200 villages and remote communities, over 4,000 wells drilled, over 11,000 water filters installed, Christmas presents for more than 200,000 needy families, and spiritual teaching available in 110 languages in 14 nations through radio ministry.
PHOTO CUTLINE: A global prayer appeal has been issued on behalf of Tun N., who pastors a congregation of GFA field partner in Myanmar’s Sittwe District, and who has not been seen since his abduction Jan. 19.
HARKER HEIGHTS, Texas (KWTX) Lilian Halabi says she's finally living the American Dream after winning "Cake Wars" on Food Network Monday night, 21 years after coming to the United States from Venezuela with high hopes.
"I came in search for the American dream. We came here because there is opportunity here."
Halabi was a stay-at-home mom when she took up baking as a hobby.
"I decided to do cake decorating classes at Hobby Lobby in Killeen. My instructor saw that I pushed myself and wanted to do more. So one time, she was making a wedding cake and she needed flowers for the cake and so she asked me to make the flowers for the wedding cake,” she said.
And her hobby quickly turned into business.
The Harker Heights woman now owns Lily's Cakes in Harker Heights, the Inn at Salado Bed and Breakfast and the La Rio Mansion Wedding Venue in Belton.
But on Monday, her skills were showcased nationwide when she won the popular "Cake Wars" reality show on Food Network.
"It's every baker and cake decorators dream to win a competition like that,” she said.
Halabi says she never dreamed of showcasing her talent in front of a national audience, but her husband did.
"My husband believes in the hard work we do and behind my back he told my friend to send my information into the show," she said.
"So before I knew it, I got a call to make a video to show my personality."
She says weeks passed with no response from her video and she figured she'd been passed over.
"Every day I was checking my phone and every day checking my email, but six weeks later I get an email from the producer of the show and he's like 'we would love to have you compete in an episode on season four."
Halabi’s episode was filmed over the summer, but only her family knew she'd won until Monday night when friends and family gathered in Salado for a watch party.
"My 10-year-old daughter was telling everyone to watch her mom on TV," she said.
"It was a tough secret to keep."
Halabi’s winning cake ended up being a 4-foot tall, five-tiered masterpiece, fitting with the "Monopoly theme" of the show.
She took home the $10,000 prize, but said the experience was worth more far more than the money.
"Just to be the "Cake Wars" winner is worth more than the $10,000 because they were tough competitors," she said.