Please, I Don’t Wanna Nag by Pat Conrad MD
Not to pile on…(see “Social Determinants”.) Maybe the biggest obstacle in returning control of health care to actual physicians is one
Continue readingEntertaining, Educating, and Criticizing Our Broken Healthcare System for 22 Years
Not to pile on…(see “Social Determinants”.) Maybe the biggest obstacle in returning control of health care to actual physicians is one
Continue readingNew technology in healthcare is kind of a weird thing. On one hand we keep coming up with new technology
Continue readingThe Twitterverse this week provided an interesting ripple when some physicians I follow expressed more than some mild outrage over
Continue readingThe government shutdown has diverted everyone’s attention from another huge story: Your medical information was compromised this past week. Medical
Continue readingThank you, Establishment Family Medicine, for once again making these posts so easy to write. I realize readers expect, nay,
Continue readingBarry Sherman, 75, the founder and chairman of the generic drug maker Apotex, and his wife, 70, were found strangled
Continue readingDon’t ya hate when a patient or family member asks how long they have before the Big Departure? Yeah, me
Continue readingI still hear that the American Academy of Family Physicians is all we have as family doctors in terms of
Continue readingThe funny thing about this blog is that we have touched on so many issues that the same ones and
Continue readingWhen you went to medical school, did you look forward to joining a great shambling mass of collective thought that
Continue readingSo, how is IBM’s Watson doing? I have no idea because after the big hoopla of how great it was
Continue readingPeople talk about a single payer system for our country all the time. Bernie now wants Medicare for all.
Continue reading“Dude, go have a scotch and stop bitchin’,” our administrative coordinator counseled. I replied, “Hell no, that is the column
Continue readingI hate the Joint Commission. I always have hated the Joint Commission. I worked for three different hospital systems in
Continue readingIt turns out that when insurers don’t have any competition they drive down the payments to hospitals and doctors. And
Continue readingI think it is very important to keep studying medications and their efficacy. Those studies should be done by researchers
Continue readingAre you ready for some more quality BS? Here is the summary from an AAFP newsletter: The 32 initial participants in
Continue readingIn big news, “the State of Maine’s Bureau’s Market Conduct Unit performed a comprehensive review of Anthem’s complaint handling after Bureau
Continue readingOrdinarily I flip through Family Practice News with minimal interest, in a generally indisposed status. Every issue they have some
Continue readingYou really need to read this story. The title is called A health care revolution that starts with listening to patients (the
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