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Using our office computer, I logged onto the website of our town’s surgical group. I got what I thought was a
Continue readingEntertaining, Educating, and Criticizing Our Broken Healthcare System for 22 Years
Using our office computer, I logged onto the website of our town’s surgical group. I got what I thought was a
Continue readingWhen I finished medical school in the 1980s, it was often easy to determine prognosis: Metastatic cancer of most types:
Continue readingA doctor joins a group. Things seem to go well. The doctor becomes popular in the community. After a few years, things are
Continue readingDoctors are selling their practices! In some areas, it feels like no practices are doctor owned. It’s depressing. The days of private practice
Continue readingNeurosurgery is VERY DELICATE!!!Remember those days of medical school? Remember when you followed the Neurosurgeon to the Operating Room?Back in 1991,
Continue readingOver the years, I’ve watched primary care doctors leave their practices and become hospital administrators. The reasons are obvious: The paycheck and
Continue readingLast year, a well dressed representative came into our Internal Medicine practice, handing out glossy brochures about “Here to Help,”
Continue readingThis past week, my veterinarian sister suddenly collapsed. She had a cardiac arrest while driving. Her passenger was able to
Continue readingI was listening to NPR on my drive home from work. The story of the hour was dedicated to a hospital
Continue readingThere is an animation site called “The 11 Second Club”. Every month, it posts 11 seconds of audio and a
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Continue readingMedicare wants…. demands… you communicate with your geriatric population through a “patient computer portal.” Sometimes, when elderly patients fret about
Continue readingThe numbers in this cartoon are not exaggerated. Dr. Stuart’s recent column here inspired me. Hospitals and clinics charge high
Continue readingDrug prices are insane. Drug Copays are going up fast. Increasingly, drug coverage insurance is pushing more drug costs onto
Continue readingWho remembers when you used to do a thoracentesis at the bedside? Nobody used ultrasound guidance! We did physical exam
Continue readingMedicare wants doctors to get patients on their computers. Doctors are required to set up computer portals to communicate with patients. These
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