One of the striking phenomena of modern medicine is the impulse within a large portion of its practitioners to nanny and nag their neighbors, ignorantly and grossly misapplying the precepts of the Hippocratic Oath, which itself has been perverted in the popular imagination into some sort of Universal Promise to forcibly comfort all personkind in…
Please forgive the sketchy grammar and obvious profanity, but… This shit right here is exactly what I’ve been talking about!! The venomously arrogant Dr Fauci testified to Congress last week and continue his Olympian run of political hackery and obsequious opportunism. After being disastrously allowed to appoint himself Central Scrutinizer for All Human Activity, Fauci assumed responsibility for…
The more government has inserted itself into health care, the more health care has become a spoils system. This should be a statement of the bleeding obvious, but what grates is that so many simply accept the assumption that this should be the system because, well, this is the system. Reps for Medicaid providers are upset…
Recently, I may have expressed a little skepticism toward public health experts telling us what we should or shouldn’t, could or couldn’t do. Medicine is so infused and shot through with political agendas that it is almost impossible to separate the two. In fact, it no longer is. When a public health “expert”, be it an actual physician, an…
Is there no end to this lunacy? I thought we dealt with this some weeks ago, but noooo, there are still those out there waiting to see whether enough moronic suggestions transmitted into rational brains can coalesce into a focused beam and make them explode. And can there be no ending to the devastation wrought by Harvard University? When…
Hoping to find some (ahem) non-viral news, I wandered over to see our old pals at Medical Economics. They have a kinda funny slide show about wondering whether office-based physicians are using electronic prescribing for controlled substances. The slideshow says that one-third of docs with EHR’s are electronically prescribing the good stuff. “Physician practices that were…
If you have not read it, I highly recommend adding Max Brook’s 2006 title World War Z to your summer reads (and if you haven’t seen the movie, don’t – it is wretched by any standard, and a complete misrepresentation of the title). The book is a series of interviews done by a journalist ten years after the…
Things are starting to pick back up at our small-town hospitals down south, but we aren’t back to normal numbers yet. If you saw the sudden evaporation of demand for non-Covid-19 emergency and urgent care, then have a cookie, but it surprised the rest of us. We have had patients with acute coronary syndromes and intra-cerebral hemorrhages…
“Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.” – Joseph Stalin “The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them.” – Elena Gorokhova This is so stereotypical a story, considering the backdrop,…
One of the fascinating, surprising (to me, at any rate) aspects of medicine is just how many people hold strong opinions about its practice, unconstrained by any formal education or training. Noted medical expert Grey’s Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo railed against “’out of touch’ television doctors spreading controversial opinions in regards to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The old white…