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This is from Maine, where I practiced for 18 years: Seven physicians — including four in the emergency department —
Continue readingEntertaining, Educating, and Criticizing Our Broken Healthcare System for 22 Years
This is from Maine, where I practiced for 18 years: Seven physicians — including four in the emergency department —
Continue reading“Dude, go have a scotch and stop bitchin’,” our administrative coordinator counseled. I replied, “Hell no, that is the column
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Continue reading“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.” Zig Ziglar Click
Continue readingHere is a nice summary in the Medical Economics magazine of why we are having such a shortage of family docs.
Continue readingAt the most recent AAFP yearly meeting, it was decided: Healthcare is a basic human right and there should be
Continue readingI often rip on hospital administrators for many reasons. One, there are too many of them. Two, they think they
Continue readingA few days back I ripped on the Joint Commission pretty hard. They deserve to be criticized even more so
Continue readingFor decades, the American Academy of Family Practitioners has taken a leading role in selling out their members, those members’
Continue readingWhen you know you won’t get much time off for your wedding why not get something that works for both?
Continue readingA hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. Joseph Campbell Editor’s Note:
Continue readingI hate the Joint Commission. I always have hated the Joint Commission. I worked for three different hospital systems in
Continue readingThis is just to give you a reminder that next month is the probably the best Direct Primary Care conference
Continue readingBurnout is the new “in” thing. Everyone is worried about it, especially the idiots who helped create it. Here is
Continue readingIt turns out that when insurers don’t have any competition they drive down the payments to hospitals and doctors. And
Continue readingTimes are tough all over. More and more patients need more care, for which the government takes more responsibility, and
Continue readingThis was the genius of the Placebo Journal, a print magazine that ran from 2001 to 2011. Something as
Continue reading“I am always doing things I can’t do. That is how I get to do them.” Pablo Picasso (Click here
Continue readingAre you ready to pay through the teeth for health insurance that you will never use, because of the high
Continue readingThere are grumblings in Vermont about the disparity of payment to independent doctors versus hospital based doctors: In 2015, commercial
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