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Researchers surveyed 543 college students and provided them with three episode-of-care vignettes in which they visited a physician. Everything about
Continue readingEntertaining, Educating, and Criticizing Our Broken Healthcare System for 22 Years
Researchers surveyed 543 college students and provided them with three episode-of-care vignettes in which they visited a physician. Everything about
Continue readingHow sad is this? Former San Diego Mayor Maureen O’Connor acknowledged in federal court Thursday that she took $2 million
Continue readingA few weeks ago I highlighted how the AMA came out with a position statement declaring health care teams should
Continue readingMore enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill – none have
Continue readingIt looks like balance trumps granola. Scientists have always claimed that a plant-based diet benefits the environment more than
Continue readingRemember how many of my readers mentioned that we physicians have been assimilated by the Borg? Well, Moody’s Investors Service says
Continue readingPerverse incentives. That phrase says it all. This article in the WSJ tries to explain why some conservative
Continue readingBased on the recent news, those of my cynical bent would be excused, and perhaps thrilled, to quickly attack Pres.
Continue readingThis is how sad it has become. I was sent this post from Monster.com and this company is looking
Continue readingThis is a parody of the commercial you may have seen during the Superbowl. It’s funny but also makes some
Continue reading“Your reputation is in the hands of others. That’s what the reputation is. You can’t control that. The only thing
Continue readingA man posing as a doctor has been arrested in Florida for giving silicone injections to people……in hotel rooms.
Continue readingEverybody “knows” that obesity is America’s number 1 killer even though they don’t actually know anyone who has died from
Continue readingHere is a really interesting article in the American Medical News about spotting which patients are likely to sue.
Continue readingAuthors of an article in the NEJM (summarized here) looked at some of the fallacies and dogmas behind the obesity
Continue readingWe have done blogs on Dr. Oz before. And yes, I have called him a big douche. Still believe
Continue readingAs more and more doctors become hospital employees it seems only inevitable that they will eventually unionize. Let’s give
Continue reading“Too many of us are hung up on what we don’t have, can’t have, or won’t ever have. We spend
Continue readingYou are not going to believe this but even the New York Times is against the Pay-for-Performance trend that is
Continue readingThis is an older article that escaped my wrath but luckily I just found it again. It seems after
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