Do you really want to live forever?
Periodically, we see stories about multi-billionaires spending ridiculous amounts of time trying to reverse or stop aging. Given the money
Continue readingEntertaining, Educating, and Criticizing Our Broken Healthcare System for 22 Years
Periodically, we see stories about multi-billionaires spending ridiculous amounts of time trying to reverse or stop aging. Given the money
Continue readingIf you haven’t tried ChatGPT, give it a visit.https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/ So, I asked Chat GPT: Will AI replace doctors? Answer: “No,
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Continue readingWhen I was ten years old, the country was crazy over Cyclamate. It was the perfect artificial sweetener. It tasted
Continue readingI practice traditional General Internal Medicine. Increasingly, it is exhausting. Specialist support in many fields is gone. For most of
Continue readingIn the old days, when you admitted someone to the hospital for ANY reason, they got a Chest X-Ray PA
Continue readingA little late on this one but it is too good to skip. Happy New Year!
Continue readingLet us pick a disease: Diabetes. I decide to order metformin. It is cheap and it works. 60 tablets cost
Continue readingThirty years ago, an expensive computer would last for about three years. Rarely did they actually break or wear out.
Continue readingNo matter who you call, this is the repeated message. Maybe they will intersperse some horrible music which, after a
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Continue readingReading my posts on this blog and the anti-hospital administrator posts I follow on Twitter (before it totally collapses in
Continue readingIt’s Medicare Advantage sign-up season and the advertising is insane. Just because you’re under age 65 does not mean you
Continue readingI have written previously on this blog about the burden of Medicare Advantage plans demanding biannual chart copy requests on
Continue readingMedicare Advantage plans have many problems. One of them is the companies that demand you, the physician, supply them with
Continue readingIn a practice with a large geriatric population such as ours, you grow used to the endless attempts at Medicare
Continue readingThe internet is a vast field of quicksand, waiting to trap you if you try to wander around. I love
Continue readingIn the old days, say…five or six years ago, taking care of Medicare patients was relatively easier than you might
Continue readingAn elderly and weakened patient was released from a hospital admission after a series of falls, appearing in our office
Continue readingFrom the New York Times! Those fun folks at the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force have come out with another
Continue readingOctober always marks an anniversary that makes me smile. 33 years ago, a remarkable computer program called Autodesk Animator appeared.
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