Cholesterol Calculator Flawed
An online risk calculator created by the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology so greatly overestimates risk
Continue readingEntertaining, Educating, and Criticizing Our Broken Healthcare System for 22 Years
An online risk calculator created by the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology so greatly overestimates risk
Continue reading“Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.” Napoleon Hill
Continue readingIn his WSJ piece called What to Do When ObamaCare Unravels, John Cochrane does one of the best jobs in
Continue readingI caught this article called Why the Amish Don’t Get Sick: Things You Can Learn From Them via FB. I
Continue readingThis came from a piece in Time Magazine by a Danielle Ofri, MD: Last week I was ready to quit
Continue readingThe American College of Physicians (ACP) is warning that aggressive timeline combined with overly ambitious objectives may unnecessarily limit the success
Continue readingIt turns that that the new trend of team-based care (a cornerstone of redesigning clinics into patient-centered medical homes) won’t
Continue readingJahi McMath is a 13-year-old girl who has been declared brain dead after experiencing complications following a tonsillectomy at Children’s Hospital in
Continue reading“Dear George, remember no man is a failure who has friends. Thanks for the wings, Love Clarence.”
Continue readingThe deadline is over and we never could sign up for Obamacare. After logging probably 40 plus hours over the
Continue readingThis from a recent AAFP report: 72 percent of American adults prefer physicians to nonphysicians when it comes to health
Continue readingIt just amazing when different parties involved in the healthcare system try to game the system…..and each other. I don’t
Continue readingIt gets harder to stomach what I read sometimes. Once again, the CDC is making out salt to be the
Continue readingDr. Ebbert is professor of medicine and a general internist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Yes, theeee Mayo
Continue readingMove over Kate Upton, I’m offering the sexiest S.I. issue for 2014. Both the White House and the congressional supporters
Continue reading“The greatest danger for most of us is not that we aim too high and we miss it, but we
Continue readingFor a family of four on food stamps (SNAP), which means they make less than $30,624 gross/year, their monthly allotment
Continue readingIn 2012, the cost for IT was $19,439 per full-time physician in each office. Since 2008, that has increased 28%.
Continue readingTalk about your ship of fools. As if almost surprised, a researcher claims a survey of 122 family medicine residents found
Continue readingThis was what was written in a side section of the Oct Family Practice News: Medical schools with the subject
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