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Coronavirus: This is Getting Serious….
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Coronavirus: Not at All Related to the Beer
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The whole Coronavirus outbreak is getting a little worrisome. No one knows where this is going and writing an article on this site will likely be outdated before it is even posted. Testing can only be done at the CDC. That creates a huge delay in getting information. We don’t know how contagious this will…
When the War Comes To Your Office
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It is my opinion that no computer system can survive an attack by a skilled and well-financed group of hackers. Most Electronic Medical Records vendors will make it sound like they are virtually invincible. I don’t believe it. When I heard about Iran’s program to attack computers, I worried. Get our awesome newsletter by signing…
Pharmacy Scams
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The attached two faxes are part of a real pharmacy scam. The patient and doctor identifiers have been blocked out. The name of the pharmacy is left intact. Here is how the scam works. The pharmacy uses readily available databases to identify patients with diabetes. They claim they call the patient or get them to…
Happy New Year from Big Pharma
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It’s the New Year’s and drug companies immediately went to work raising prices. The quote I love is from the Arstechnica article: In a statement to Reuters, Sanofi noted that its increases were in line with the company’s commitment to keep the rate of increases below “medical inflation.” Medical inflation? Obviously that’s a special kind…
The Most Delicious Time of the Year!
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About this time, our office is packed with various wonderful goodies. Between every patient, we pause to stuff our face with something amazing. By the end of the day, our stomachs are dragging on the ground. When mid-January arrives, however, the food is gone. There are no snacks to be found. If you’re lucky, you…
Pretend Specialists
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In our area, if you send a patient for a specialty evaluation, this is often what you get….In case you don’t understand the reference, check out these YouTube ads: https://youtu.be/eHCTaUFXpP8 https://youtu.be/8dOHEw8izno (Check them out, anyway! They’re hilarious!) Tweet
Congratulations! You now have Medicare! Here come the scams!
by Steven Mussey MD •
Overpriced back braces and knee braces. $800 arthritis creams which are no better than placebo. Marginal Quality Medicare Advantage HMO’s with tiny doctor networks.Poor quality diabetic testing supplies.Expensive Diabetic Shoes. Junk mail. Phone calls. Emails. Text messages. Even door-to-door salespeople! Once you hit Medicare, you become a target for marketing.Much of this nonsense eventually comes…
Some Of Us Will Live Too Long
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Can we live too long? How is that possible? A recent editorial in the Washington Post hinted at the problem:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-need-a-major-redesign-of-life/2019/11/29/a63daab2-1086-11ea-9cd7-a1becbc82f5e_story.html “Wait,” you may say. “I thought life expectancy was decreasing.”There are two trends happening in the US. Yes, life expectancy is getting shorter overall. But, this is also a classic case of the “haves and…
“I only do hypoallergenic medicines!”
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A couple of times a year, I’ll go to prescribe a medication and the patient will remind me: “Don’t give me anything with Red Dye Number 6.” That’s when I try to find a reason to not prescribe anything. Sometimes, however, you’re stuck. You write the prescription. No one has any idea what dye is…