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Here is a nice AP article talking about the primary care doctors shortage. In rural Oregon they are
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Here is a nice AP article talking about the primary care doctors shortage. In rural Oregon they are
Continue readingI have made the case over and over again about the dangers of industrialized medicine. It is the exact
Continue readingHere is an article from the American Medical News that describes 3 steps to quality pay for physicians. Are you
Continue readingNothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men
Continue readingHere is a link to video news reports about a physician who won’t see obese patients. She claims it puts
Continue readingPretty soon Medicare will reduce payments by up to 1% for more than 2,200 hospitals for excess readmissions in three
Continue readingA woman recently called the ambulance service to report that her 1-year-old nephew was apparently bitten by a mosquito. She is
Continue readingThere are less and less family docs or internists specializing in primary care. It is a fact and it
Continue reading“I don’t ask why patients lie, I just assume they all do.” House P.S. I know this is COMPLETELY negative
Continue readingA new survey, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, which evaluated burnout rates nationally across different medical specialties, showed
Continue readingPhysicians should help to make patients understand why medical care has become more expensive in the United States than anywhere
Continue readingAs you may know, I left Maine to come to Virginia to work in an urgent care center. It was
Continue readingVal Jones can be found at getbetterhealth.com and she is great medical blogger. I have known her for a while
Continue readingThere is an article in the Boston Globe entitled Journal Editorial: Pay-for-peformance a faulty police in medicine. Ya think! I have
Continue readingHCA, the hospital system which controls 163 hospitals from New Hampshire to California, has seen its profits soar recently. There is
Continue readingTobacco Smoke Enemas (1750s – 1810s) The tobacco enema was used to infuse tobacco smoke into a patient’s rectum for
Continue readingThis just in. A Moody’s Investors report states that “the outlook for the U.S. not-for-profit healthcare sector remains negative as new
Continue readingThere is far more danger in public than in private monopoly, for when Government goes into business it can always
Continue readingOne one my readers sent this to me: Doug, Here’s a fun link giving hope for a new additive treatment
Continue readingCNN has some deal with a plastic surgeon named Anthony Youn. He is a plastic surgeon in metro Detroit who
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