E-Prescribing Adding to the Squeeze
Hoping to find some (ahem) non-viral news, I wandered over to see our old pals at Medical Economics. They have
Continue readingEntertaining, Educating, and Criticizing Our Broken Healthcare System for 22 Years
Hoping to find some (ahem) non-viral news, I wandered over to see our old pals at Medical Economics. They have
Continue readingIf you have not read it, I highly recommend adding Max Brook’s 2006 title World War Z to your summer reads (and
Continue readingThings are starting to pick back up at our small-town hospitals down south, but we aren’t back to normal numbers
Continue reading“Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.” – Joseph Stalin “The rules are simple: they lie to
Continue readingOne of the fascinating, surprising (to me, at any rate) aspects of medicine is just how many people hold strong
Continue reading“We had imagined the technology being used in a future relief expedition to some far-away place. Now, shockingly, we see
Continue readingTurn the lights down low, screw the cap off the bottle of red, and put on some Barry White…yeaaahh… smooth…
Continue readingRarely do I ever argue outright with a specialist or a surgeon. The reason is simply, that they usually know more
Continue readingCertainly, none of us are surprised by this, are we? While health care CEO’s hide in their well-stocked bunkers the same
Continue readingSome stories, like this one, are tricky. From every level of government to every single media outlet (no exceptions), to talk
Continue reading“We’re all in this together.” Oh, how I have come to hate this phrase, which is less an expression of communal
Continue readingThis will let me in for some criticism, so too bad. I am angry, very damn angry over our response to
Continue readingYou have a dry cough, maybe a little fever during the night. Were those muscle aches? Your throat feels fine, but now
Continue readingWhile I can’t deny the sleaze factor of our next story, I’ve got to admire the entrepreneurial spirit therein. There is
Continue readingSo far as I know, the infernal USMLE is still in force, which means medical students have a ton of
Continue readingMore than twenty years ago in family practice residency, we were introduced to caring “for the whole patient.” We were supposed
Continue readingOnce again, another fine case of a hospital deciding to target a physician, in this instance, an OB/GYN named Rebecca Denman,
Continue readingHas the average human body temperature dropped? Some researchers think so. Having looked at data spanning 157 years, and adjusting for
Continue readingIf physicians have any worth to society, it ought to begin with their telling the truth. Some of you have read
Continue readingA Milwaukee woman died earlier this month because her local ER wait times were purportedly too long. She Facebook’d: “’Idk what they can
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