How to Go? by Pat Conrad MD
How do you want to die? Where? I know for damn sure that I don’t want to die in a
Continue readingEntertaining, Educating, and Criticizing Our Broken Healthcare System for 22 Years
How 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
Continue readingRemember how Obamacare stated that “no insurance plan can reject you, charge you more, or refuse to pay for essential health
Continue readingRecently, Dr. Heimlich had to perform the move named after him at an adult living center. The 98 year-old retired chest
Continue readingFound this information on the Family Medicine SmartBrief: Lawmakers criticized the CMS for not doing enough to eliminate fraud, waste
Continue readingWhen given this instruction, so many older patients have given me and my staff “that look” and then asked this
Continue readingA new study is claiming that worldwide obesity has hit 641 million, and that the two chubbiest offenders are the
Continue readingFrom the minds of the Placebo Journal (RIP)
Continue reading“If no one knows when a person is going to die, how can we say he died prematurely?” George Carlin
Continue readingVeterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald got in hot water for saying “When you go to Disney, do they measure the
Continue readingIf you haven’t seen this piece written by a pediatrician then you have to immediately. Here is what she did:
Continue readingThis month, a terrible thing happened to our practice and an even worse thing happened to a patient. Our small
Continue readingMost poor Americans are fat. “Heresy you say? How dare you write that? You are denigrating poor people!” Well, it’s true. How
Continue readingMedicare is an economic failure, a massive voter by-off, and now so deeply embedded in our psyche that elderly yet
Continue readingI just love these. Miss you, PJ (tears flowing). Spread this virally so someone will think its real.
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