Atlanta Cheating Scandal
If you have been reading this blog over the years then you would have known that I have compared the
Continue readingEntertaining, Educating, and Criticizing Our Broken Healthcare System for 22 Years
If you have been reading this blog over the years then you would have known that I have compared the
Continue readingI am all for helping people out. That is what it means to be human. One way this country
Continue readingHere was a study that you haven’t seen……anywhere. It is highlighted in Medical Economics and was performed at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Continue readingStar Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace “I have a bad feeling about this.” ―As Obi-Wan Kenobi‘s first line at the
Continue readingIn the latest edition of Pravda (okay, it was actually “Family Practice News”), I saw this awful gem: “Mass. ED
Continue readingI almost needed to go on disability reading this piece from NPR: In the past three decades, the number of
Continue readingIt has been always mentioned here that our healthcare system can only be saved if patients have some skin in
Continue readingYou all know I am not a pro Big Pharma guy but this is outrageous. This from the Wall Street
Continue readingThis from the journal Medical Economics: Health information technology (HIT) advances have failed to save the healthcare industry money because
Continue readingThe above is an ad from the UK. They pound their population to make sure they get the right care
Continue readingI guess anyone can paint a picture differently depending on their perspective. Take, for example, a group of docs who
Continue readingHere is a very interesting scenario. The Federal Trade Commission and Idaho’s attorney general have challenged the acquisition of a
Continue readingThe controversy over fat continues. I debate it with people all the time. Since the seventies (long story on
Continue readingScott Gottlieb says a lot of the things that I have been saying for years in his WSJ piece entitled
Continue readingMan, it is good to have money because then you do things like this. United Healthcare opened a health benefits
Continue readingIt turns out that robots aren’t all that great for healthcare yet. A recent MSN article highlights this: “While
Continue readingIt amazes me that we actually have a label for “frequent flyers” to the emergency room. Oh, wait a
Continue reading“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life;
Continue readingI am torn on this. As a family doctor who also thinks himself as a steward of the healthcare system,
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