US Life Expectancy Not Great
Mark Gongloff of the Huffington Post entitled his editorial The U.S. Health Care System is Terrible, in 1 Enraging Chart.
Continue readingEntertaining, Educating, and Criticizing Our Broken Healthcare System for 22 Years
Mark Gongloff of the Huffington Post entitled his editorial The U.S. Health Care System is Terrible, in 1 Enraging Chart.
Continue readingIf you have followed me in this blog or the Placebo Journal then you would know I LOOOOVVVE to mock
Continue readingOh….my…..God! According to Henry Chao, deputy chief information officer for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, up to 40 percent of the technology
Continue reading“All great changes are preceded by chaos.” Deepak Chopra
Continue readingAn elementary school in Canada has banned kindergarten students from touching each other at recess. This means no playing tag, no
Continue readingThis is a commercial for Sutter Health. It was sent to me by a reader who said: Most of us
Continue readingThere is a new term to label doctors and it is called “better-performers”. Not unlike greyhounds at the dog track,
Continue readingWhen was the last time you made a decision about where to eat based on a personal or electronic customer
Continue readingLast week Doug shared a piece called “Number Needed to Treat”, in which he noted that as many patients were
Continue readingThe headline goes IBM’s Watson wants to fix America’s doctor shortage. Shades of John Henry, the pile driving man (old
Continue readingWhen you look at a beautiful sunrise, sunset, lovely light on the water, a marvelously beautiful face, or a flower dancing with the wind
Continue readingI PAID TO ASK A QUESTION (at a Doc-in-the-box clinic). How many ways is this screwed up? Is it not
Continue readingIt has been six week since the Healthcare.gov has opened and still nothing. This is what CBS is just reporting:
Continue readingDeborah Cohan, an OB/Gyn and mom of two, went into surgery to have her breasts removed, and faced it with “courage and
Continue readingSomething in the news triggered a synapse in my brain. Flashbacks (nonhallucinogenic) occurred. I remembered the great cultural revolution (also called a
Continue readingFor a laugh and/or hangover cure, I was on the couch this evening perusing the latest “Family Practice News” and
Continue readingPeople believe what they want to believe – a fact well-known by the food industry. Love milk? Then you want
Continue readingThe man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who receives it, it’s chiseled in
Continue readingThere are several alternative careers for physicians. Robin Cook and Michael Crichton became authors and screen writers. Sir Conan Doyle
Continue readingDid you know that about 90% of the cost of hospital and ED care is spent on 20% of the patients?
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