Food Banks and Diabetes
This article in the NY Times exposes, albeit tangentially, some of the misinformation spread around about “food insecurity”. For example:
Continue readingEntertaining, Educating, and Criticizing Our Broken Healthcare System for 22 Years
This article in the NY Times exposes, albeit tangentially, some of the misinformation spread around about “food insecurity”. For example:
Continue readingIt is the middle of 2016 and over half of EMRs do not talk to each other. Here is what
Continue readingFile this in the WTF column but the FDA has approved a device called AspireAssist which “consists of a thin tube
Continue readingThe health care system is failing. The assault on the autonomy and integrity – such as it remains – of
Continue readingMore sadness from the Placebo Journal. This was 10 years ago and we thought docs were depressed then?
Continue reading“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” Aldous
Continue readingAre you ready for this? There is again some concern for all the digital warnings being given to doctors by their
Continue readingCalifornia, via Jerry Brown, will become the first state to ask federal officials to allow immigrants here illegally to buy
Continue readingYes, you read the headline right. Forty percent of women are not just overweight, they are obese. And it is
Continue readingThe WSJ recently published an article extolling the benefits of a three-year medical degree and it is just another example
Continue readingIt turns out job satisfaction is not so great for primary care doctors and the AAFP writes as if they
Continue readingFrom the minds that brought you the Placebo Journal (RIP)
Continue readingMy mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch. Jack Nicholson
Continue readingHow do you want to die? Where? I know for damn sure that I don’t want to die in a
Continue readingThis is interesting and needs to be broken down. John Oliver from HBO’s Last Week Tonight spent $50 to start a
Continue readingReceived this from a reader. See his letter and request at the bottom: Dear Doug: CMS will allow comments on
Continue readingIn another attempt to make life for physicians as confusing as possible, CMS has out-acronymed itself. Are you ready?
Continue readingThe more I watch the news, particularly when it involves health care, the more healthily, properly, joyously cynical I become.
Continue readingToo real? PJ was ahead of its time. Oh wait, it’s always the doctors’ fault.
Continue reading“First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.” Steve Martin
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