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This says everything you want to know about DOCTOR’S DAY. It’s not provider’s day. We didn’t go to provider school.
Continue readingEntertaining, Educating, and Criticizing Our Broken Healthcare System for 22 Years
This says everything you want to know about DOCTOR’S DAY. It’s not provider’s day. We didn’t go to provider school.
Continue readingAmazingly enough, the National Quality Forum’s Measure Applications Partnership is really angry that the CMS is try to remove quality
Continue readingIn an amazing announcement, that even stunned me, the Medical Axis of Evil has turned into the Medical Axis of
Continue reading[poll id=”2″] Yesterday was Doctor’s Day. When I first started in medicine, working for a hospital, there used to be
Continue readingEvery year I try to make a point to wish every physician Happy Doctor’s Day! You may think this is
Continue reading“What we do in life echoes in eternity.” Maximus, Gladiator movie (Editor’s Note: This is why you grind every day
Continue readingNot to pile on…(see “Social Determinants”.) Maybe the biggest obstacle in returning control of health care to actual physicians is one
Continue readingThis just came via email from the AAFP: The EveryONE Project screening tools and resources help physicians recognize and respond
Continue readingLet me start off this blog entry with a couple of caveats. One, ANY medical bankruptcy is too many.
Continue readingAs patients struggle to pay for their premiums and their medications, this dude just got some good news. Pfizer CEO
Continue readingMaybe it’s just a slow news month over at Medical Economics, or maybe getting ad revenues is (still) getting tougher
Continue readingThis one cracks me up. Dr. Hartman is absurd but there are some true nuggets in here. Enjoy. (Want to
Continue reading“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work
Continue readingRemember how the PCMH (patient centered medical home) model was designed to provide better care to patients through a team-based approach?Sure
Continue readingA new British study tried to really break new ground when it found that “obesity increases the risk for heart
Continue readingThis is modern day organized crime similar to the move Raging Bull. Watch the clip. I continue to be so
Continue readingCNN recently put out an article called For doctors, more opioid prescriptions bring more money. Really? I don’t make any
Continue readingThe article in the print magazine, Family Practice News, was called: Fusing Quality Measure and Primary Care I immediately was drawn
Continue readingGeez, I really miss writing the Placebo Journal. It was just so much fun. Here is one fake ad we
Continue readingAnswer: “Sophomore dies in kiln explosion? Oh My God! I just talked to her last week… She was going to
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