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Have you heard? Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina are combining with the Oregon-based insurer Cambia Health Solutions,
Continue readingEntertaining, Educating, and Criticizing Our Broken Healthcare System for 22 Years
Have you heard? Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina are combining with the Oregon-based insurer Cambia Health Solutions,
Continue readingTheranos was going to change the landscape of healthcare. Nope. If you haven’t seen the documentary on HBO then I
Continue readingHCSC, Health Care Service Corp, the parent of the Blues plans in Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, didn’t
Continue readingSan Francisco continues to originate things I had never bothered to imagine: “Medical residents, interns walk off the job at
Continue readingThis is what it is coming to. Do you want to go to these types of conferences or change the
Continue reading“But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine,
Continue readingI read this article called Involve Docs in Using Health Data, Expert Tells Health Insurers and just wanted to share
Continue readingI really don’t know how to truly define burnout. It seems complicated. Zdogg likes the term “moral injury”. Fine. Maybe
Continue readingThis article in the NY Times just came out about the Ethiopian plane crash. Feel free to read it. Critical
Continue readingOften the rationale for universal, state-run health care is that of course it can be done because so many developed
Continue readingAll doctors hate prior authorizations. Why? Because we ALL know that it is only based on saving insurers money. As
Continue readingThanks, Mike, for tipping me off about this twitter group. Love it. Check them out here. May the Ides of
Continue reading“There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” Aristotle
Continue readingI just love it when the same organizations who agreed to everything that has caused burnout now pretend they want
Continue readingYou may have heard the news how a California man’s family was upset after his life-threatening diagnosis was delivered to him
Continue readingPlease read the entire thing. There are some questions at the end. You will be graded but it is a
Continue readingI rarely get into the vaccine stuff here because I don’t need crazy people attacking me. I have enough of
Continue readingBeing a deadbeat is bad. Before you complain about the rest of this piece, go back and read the introductory
Continue readingI still love some of the politically incorrect stuff we did at the Placebo Journal (RIP) Get our awesome newsletter
Continue reading“My life has been a quest for knowledge and understanding, and I am nowhere near having achieved that. And it
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