Physician Shortage: Support the Resident Physician Shortage Act
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the physician shortage is a physician problem to solve; but it
Continue readingEntertaining, Educating, and Criticizing Our Broken Healthcare System for 22 Years
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the physician shortage is a physician problem to solve; but it
Continue readingIt has become so easy to blame physicians for all the wrongs that are occurring in health care. And it
Continue readingThe story continues for our noctor friend. Jeffery Young is accused of exchanging opioids and fentanyl patches for sex between 2014 and
Continue readingI think it is time that I rip on the state nursing boards. I have absolutely hammered state medical boards
Continue readingLike we don’t have enough to worry about, and like California already hasn’t won “Dumbest State of the Year” so
Continue readingWho remembers when you used to do a thoracentesis at the bedside? Nobody used ultrasound guidance! We did physical exam
Continue readingSo I’ve seen several trends in the non-scientific literature (news articles, blogs, social media etc) on the topic of nurse
Continue readingDid you know that: More than 883,000 people had data exposed in healthcare breaches reported to the federal government last
Continue readingImagine if you create a stupid grading system and you pay hospital systems more for those at higher risk. How
Continue readingI’ll admit it, this article made me mad. Why? Probably because I have a daughter and could empathize with her
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Continue readingOldie but goodie from the Placebo Journal days.
Continue readingThis just in: Only about 2% of total Medicare spending is dedicated to primary care under a narrow definition of
Continue reading‘It is much more important to know what sort of patient has a disease than what sort of disease a
Continue readingHere is a quick contest. How many things are wrong with this story? Jeffrey Young wanted to give you a
Continue readingThis article has been floating around various news feeds for a couple days now and I thought it could use
Continue readingIt’s a funny thing about facts and newspapers. Many times they don’t get along, This article in the USA Today
Continue readingOne of the fashionably bipartisan Washington topics for chest beating is the opioid cris-, sorry, “THE OPIOID CRISIS!!!” I’m one of
Continue readingDo you order too many tests? A lot of doctors are told we do, for various reasons, and every one of
Continue readingI’m sure there will be some who think I am anti-nurse, anti-NP from some recent posts critically reviewing information/position statements
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