It’s Good to be a Non-Profit CEO
One of the worst aspects of our society, really of human nature, is the impulse for most people to go
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Author: Pat Conrad MD
Pat Conrad is a full-time rural ER doc on the Florida Gulf Coast. After serving as a carrier naval flight officer, he graduated from the University of Florida College of Medicine, and the Tallahassee Family Medicine residency program. His commentary has appeared in Medical Economics and at AuthenticMedicine.com . Conrad’s work stresses individual freedom and autonomy as the crucial foundation for medical excellence, is wary of all collective solutions, and recognizes that the vast majority of poisonous snakebites are concurrent with alcohol consumption.
It’s All About the Packaging…
We see daily updates that the national budget is cartoonishly exploding, and a huge part of that are Medicare expenditures. In
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Maine Doesn’t Need Doctors
This is NOT a piece about abortion. I’ve been writing op-eds for 16 years and have thus far avoided that
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Do You Feel in Charge?
Does your hospital run out of your preferred broad-spectrum antibiotic? Does your clinic run out of fiberglass splint materials, lab testing
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Direct Primary BBQ
Which is your favorite barbeque? The wondrous Carolina pulled pork, robust southwestern brisket, St. Louis ribs, or incredible Kansas City burnt
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We’ll Get to You When We Can…
The word is that more patients are tired of waiting in increasingly crowded ER lobbies, and are leaving Against Medical
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The Burnout Trap
Every two years when I have to renew my state medical license, I get some standard questions, including whether I
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Incompetency Bias
Like we don’t have enough to worry about, and like California already hasn’t won “Dumbest State of the Year” so
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Both Sides of the “Crisis”
One of the fashionably bipartisan Washington topics for chest beating is the opioid cris-, sorry, “THE OPIOID CRISIS!!!” I’m one of
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Do You Order Too Many Tests?
Do you order too many tests? A lot of doctors are told we do, for various reasons, and every one of
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