Health Eating: 10 tips to Help You Eat Smarter

Michael A. Snyder, M.D.: Healthy Eating: 10 Tips to Help You Eat Smarter

For the average person looking to lose 10, 20 and 30 pounds, it's all about finding the right tools and leveraging them, to help curb emotional eating or poor dietary habits. Fad diets don't work long term because they ask too much of the person. But small practical changes do work.

Here are some simple tools from Dr. Michael A. Snyder, weight loss surgeon, for losing weight and keeping it off that I have seen work time and time again.

Patients' voices needed on hospital quality site, doctors say - White Coat Notes - Boston.com

Patients' voices needed on hospital quality site, doctors say - White Coat Notes - Boston.com

Not familiar with the government's Hospital Compare website? You're not alone. You and 94 percent of Americans are unacquainted with the quality reporting site set up by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Two doctors from Baystate Medical Center in Springfield argue that more people would find their way to the website if their feedback on the care they receive was included.

Patients do get their say on what it's like to be a hospital patient, from how noisy or clean their room was to how well staff communicate with them. Part of Hospital Compare is culled from patient satisfaction surveys.

Compare your hospital here: http://www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov/