The picture above, and the following quote, come from a recent article in the Wall Street Journal: Hospitals have granted Microsoft Corp., International Business Machines Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. the ability to access identifiable patient information under deals to crunch millions of health records, the latest examples of hospitals’ growing influence in the data economy. We can trust them with your data,…
This article is floating around the Internet: Doctors beg men not to masturbate with banana peels It’s in the NY Post so maybe it is fake news. Anyway, you can read the details in the article. I just love that they found this doc: However, Dr. Diana Gill of prescription service Doctor-4-U cautions against the…
Physicians are paid 7.3% of our total national health expenditure: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the aggregate median salary for every healthcare provider totals $966,992,011,000. The ~1 million physicians get paid $262,332,755,000. That’s $262.3 Billion out of a total $3.6 Trillion spent on healthcare in 2019. Physicians get paid 7.3% of the total…
This was a parody on the “Smile Makers” stickers that doctors’ offices would give patients as they left. Ahhh, the good old Placebo Journal. Tweet
“You can do anything, but not everything.” David Allen Tweet
I am not sure if you heard the news or not so here it is: Nearly all of the largest publicly traded health insurance companies gave their CEOs a pay raise in 2018. That includes UnitedHealth Group, whose CEO David Wichmann’s total compensation reached $18.1 million. Hooray! I was so worried about these guys. They…
Front and back of your next t-shirt from my Placebo Journal days. Tweet
“Here’s some simple advice: always be yourself. Never take yourself too seriously. And beware of advice from experts, pigs, and members of Parliament.“ Kermit the Frog Tweet
I am all for progress. I am all for technology. But I also a staunch defender of AUTHENTIC MEDICINE. Hence, the name of this blog. I am just so tired of others (the tech world) claiming they can fix everything. An example would be Theranos. Silicon Valley loves the Apple model of moving fast, breaking…
The topic of Medicaid expansion is fraught with politics. I am going to stay away from that a bit. Here is the article I want to talk about in full: A new study finds that Medicaid expansion improved people’s health in Southern states, resulting in fewer declines in people’s health. The study published in Health Affairs finds…