Ready for a touchy subject?   I have been in practice for over two decades and I have seen a lot of patients.   My estimate is around 100,000.  Over that time I have seen many patients who are disabled and truly need help.    That being said, I have seen many more patients who…

Read more →

The  WSJ recently did a series called The Journal Report: CEO Council.  There was a section entitled Remaking Health Care: Change the Way Providers Are Paid and it just wants to make me puke.   Here is one section to ponder: The Role of the Care Giver LARRY MERLO (President, CEO of CVS and Caremark):…

Read more →

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” Robert Louis Stevenson Tweet0

Read more →

Oh Christmas, many gather to celebrate the birth of a baby born a while back on the other side of the world.  In Florida, doctors and lawyers gather together to celebrate the birth of a different child.  Joining hands in a circle recalling the most hellish of W.H.O.ville’s (ironic, that), all beam inwardly at toward…

Read more →

Here is an article about Josh and “Concierge Care” in Business Week: Atlas MD isn’t a free clinic. It’s a concierge medical practice, which means you can’t get an appointment unless you pay cash. Atlas MD’s two physicians, Josh Umbehr and Doug Nunamaker, don’t accept insurance. Instead, they charge most of their adult patients $50…

Read more →

I am a grunt.   I am in the trenches of medicine , right now working at an Urgent Care center.  Yes, it is my choice but this is the problem with healthcare.  This was just sent to me by one of my readers.  It seems Dr. Callahan needs an assistant:   Elizabeth Callahan, MD…

Read more →

The following is from A Dr. Sidney  Goldstein. It was in the  Family Practice News though it is syndicated in other pieces.  It is a worth a read: The New Doctor’s Office The doctor’s office, at least my office, has changed over the last few decades with an increase in personnel added to make my…

Read more →

Animal research has shown that the best way to get a rat to press a pellet-producing lever is to set the mechanism so that it doesn’t always release a pellet with each push. The unpredictability (or scarcity) of the reward causes the rat to seek it with more fervor. Casino owners are well aware of this phenomenon,…

Read more →

I have been blown away by the lack of media attention on all the four-game suspensions given to NFL players this year.    Most of them seem to be from using the drug Adderall.   Not really known to build size or increase speed, I think once again the athletes know something that science does…

Read more →

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” George Bernard Shaw Tweet0

Read more →