The AAFP Pushes Back
The AAFP joined the AMA and a host of other national physician organizations — as well as 43 state medical
Continue readingEntertaining, Educating, and Criticizing Our Broken Healthcare System for 22 Years
The AAFP joined the AMA and a host of other national physician organizations — as well as 43 state medical
Continue readingThis article comes from the Physician Practice by Lucien Roberts. It was so nice to read about the “authentic” doctors
Continue readingWith the new guidelines for prescribing cholesterol-lowering medications, I’ve been wondering if perhaps we’re becoming overexposed to these drugs?
Continue readingHere is an article on a Wichita, KS site (public radio) that goes into detail about the imbalance between primary
Continue readingMark Gongloff of the Huffington Post entitled his editorial The U.S. Health Care System is Terrible, in 1 Enraging Chart.
Continue readingIf you have followed me in this blog or the Placebo Journal then you would know I LOOOOVVVE to mock
Continue readingOh….my…..God! According to Henry Chao, deputy chief information officer for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, up to 40 percent of the technology
Continue reading“All great changes are preceded by chaos.” Deepak Chopra
Continue readingAn elementary school in Canada has banned kindergarten students from touching each other at recess. This means no playing tag, no
Continue readingThis is a commercial for Sutter Health. It was sent to me by a reader who said: Most of us
Continue readingThere is a new term to label doctors and it is called “better-performers”. Not unlike greyhounds at the dog track,
Continue readingWhen was the last time you made a decision about where to eat based on a personal or electronic customer
Continue readingLast week Doug shared a piece called “Number Needed to Treat”, in which he noted that as many patients were
Continue readingThe headline goes IBM’s Watson wants to fix America’s doctor shortage. Shades of John Henry, the pile driving man (old
Continue readingWhen you look at a beautiful sunrise, sunset, lovely light on the water, a marvelously beautiful face, or a flower dancing with the wind
Continue readingI PAID TO ASK A QUESTION (at a Doc-in-the-box clinic). How many ways is this screwed up? Is it not
Continue readingIt has been six week since the Healthcare.gov has opened and still nothing. This is what CBS is just reporting:
Continue readingDeborah Cohan, an OB/Gyn and mom of two, went into surgery to have her breasts removed, and faced it with “courage and
Continue readingSomething in the news triggered a synapse in my brain. Flashbacks (nonhallucinogenic) occurred. I remembered the great cultural revolution (also called a
Continue readingFor a laugh and/or hangover cure, I was on the couch this evening perusing the latest “Family Practice News” and
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