The Idiots Start To Awaken But Do Nothing
I found this article called Doctors doubt quality metrics improve quality of care in a journal called Family Practice News. The title
Continue readingEntertaining, Educating, and Criticizing Our Broken Healthcare System for 22 Years
I found this article called Doctors doubt quality metrics improve quality of care in a journal called Family Practice News. The title
Continue readingThe more I see of the Affordable Care Act, the more I hate it. It turns out that “dozens
Continue readingAaron Carroll is a pediatrician and wrote an article in the NY Times called Trapped in the System: A Sick Doctor’s
Continue reading“Really, I probably live in a world of 140 codes.” AAFP President Robert Wergin, M.D. explaining that patients will not
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Continue reading“When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.” Evelyn Waugh
Continue readingEveryone and their uncle is trying to capitalize on our broken healthcare system. They think they can fix it. Even
Continue readingI just found a huge steaming pile of made-up terms in this article called Avoiding the ER: ‘Care coordinators’ see increased role
Continue readingI saw this recent post on the AAFP website called AAFP Backs Senate Bill Supporting Direct Primary Care It says the AAFP is
Continue readingDid you know that “Multispecialty physician practices spent an average of $20,693 per full-time-equivalent doctor in 2014, a 12% increase
Continue readingThe VA – as currently conceived – should be torn down, blown up, done away with. A new study co-authored
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Continue reading“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” W.B Yeats
Continue readingForthright Health Management in Michigan signed on about 50 primary care physicians to take part in a concierge medicine program
Continue readingI loved the movie Big with Tom Hanks. There was this one scene (above) that hits home for me
Continue readingI highly recommend you read this article about a naturopath who is now turning on other naturopaths. It seems the
Continue readingSometime this summer, a large non-profit community hospital began something new and terrifying: It delegated medical admissions to Nurse Practitioners
Continue readingUsually, a few paragraphs of ridicule, just to set the reader up, are warranted. I’m not going to bother this
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Continue reading“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in
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