Pipes, Sally C.

According to the Pacific Research Institute website: “Sally C. Pipes is Taube Fellow in Health Care Studies, president and chief executive officer of the Pacific Research Institute, a San Francisco-based think tank founded in 1979.  Prior to becoming president...

POLST

From by Jeffrey Hall Dobken, MD  via www.KevinMD.com “POLST stands for “Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment”. It is a next generation replacement for an Advanced Directive and DNR (“Do Not Resuscitate”) order.  Advanced planning documents turn out...

d/b/a (DBA)

Doing Business As: when the ownership company name is different than the name being used as a trade name. For instance, the ownership company name might be ABC Amalgamated Healthcare and the d/b/a could be Home Town Primary Care.

Malware

Malware is malicious software installed on your machine, usually without your knowledge. You may be asked to download an anti-virus software that is actually a virus itself. Or you may visit a page that installs software on your computer without even asking. The...