Yes, we have all seen the above mug. We’ve all had a chuckle. But what if Google really was trying to be your patient’s doctor? Every medical search performed by a patient is saved and analyzed by them. They use listening devices in unexpected places. These are just the covert methods. But how about blatantly…
From the early 1900’s. Watch. Tweet
I am moving these to Wednesday afternoon to give our writers a chance to compete to see which has the highest views each week. The Wednesday PM post usually gets screwed so it has been moved to Thursday. You probably don’t care but I thought I would explain. Tweet
I am torn. When I first read this this article in the WSJ I was on-board. But then it felt creepy. The title is Investigators Use New Strategy to Combat Opioid Crisis: Data Analytics Justice Department tracks prescription and billing records to find patterns of abuse in opioid epidemic The article starts out like this…
I found this amusing: Illinois spent $4.6 million covering deceased Medicaid managed care beneficiaries from October 2015 through September 2017, the Office of the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services found. The state did not recover payments made to private insurers administering Medicaid benefits in Illinois, according to the report released last…
Just another oldie, but goodie, from the Placebo Journal. Man, I miss doing these things. Get our awesome newsletter by signing up here. We don’t give your email out and we don’t spam you. Tweet
“Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty,…
I am going to mock this article in Medical Economics because that is what I do. In its essence, I always think we physicians can improve how we communicate with patients. My issue is that if the environment is poisoned by metrics and clicks then these recommendations are like pissing in the wind. The article…
Some of you get very ugly when discussing the salaries of hospital CEOs. I understand but you have to understand that life is miserable after they leave. For one, those golden parachutes they receive are not going to buy million dollar yachts anymore. Well, maybe they can but not more than one. Secondly, some are…
Just to give you a chuckle….from Cyanide and Happiness. Happy Friday! Tweet