Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Reading Medical Reversal showed me I was not cynical enough regarding medical matters

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If you count the first year of medical school until now I have been thinking about medical matters for over 60 years.With the background of ...

Why so many more eye drops post cataract surgery in US than Europe

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In many european countries a singe intra eye injection of cefuroxime is used instead of multiple topical antibiotic drops.There seems to be ...

Alexander Hamilton on those who generate chaos

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“Those then, who resist a confirmation of public order, are the true Artificers of monarchy—not that this is the intention of the generality...

Are physicians losing their sense of ownership of their patient's care

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Are physicians losing thier sense of owndership of their patients care? I believe so. Physicans' language demonstated their care or com...

Should nonselective His Bundle pacing be called " so called' ?

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Should non selective His bundle pacing be called “so called Non selective His Bundle Pacing” ?. The publications (1) of Dr Rehan Malmud m...
Monday, September 04, 2023

Are there growing hazards to your health when venture capital buys medical practices

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The spread of corporatized medicine does not just pose threats to patient care but also to those delivering the care, most prominently the...
Tuesday, August 29, 2023

The attack on science and medicine makes more sense after reading Jason Stanley on Fascism

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I was puzzled as to why someone would verbally attack Dr.Peter Hotez and threaten him with physical violence. What problem could they have w...
Saturday, July 08, 2023

Inflation is not just egg prices how about echocardiogram price hikes

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Echocardiogram prices at at least one large megtropolitan hospital system in a large southern city,have accelerated impressively over the la...
Friday, May 12, 2023

What retired doc learned from economics

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From Leamers book on Maco humans are pattern seeking story telling creatures. Economics cannot provide the level of certitude that the ex...

It began with Ayn Rand and may have ended up on life support with Covid19 and how humans have reacted

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It (my general political-philosophical set of beliefs) really did begin with Ayn Rand, first reading "Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal ...

can recent innovations in health care delivery be explained in the context of Baumol's disease

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Note this blog post is the first of a joint authorship with chatgpt and me. Can recent innovations in health care delivery be explained in ...

Covid 19 2022 101 -the basics

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Three  basics emerge as we enter year three of a pandemic that has claimed 900.000 lives in the United States"  Covid 19 is a respirato...

New data on angio invasive follicular thyroid cancer necessitates change in ATA guidelines

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With the publication of an article from Japan involving study of 303 cases of encapsulated angioinvasive FTC the current ATA risk classifica...
Thursday, May 11, 2023

Thyrotrophin suppression to prevent thyroid cancer recurrence

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Fron reading the Amercan Thyroid Association;s thyroid cancer guidlines I had assumed that the notion that TSH supression to reduce risk of ...
Sunday, May 07, 2023

Was the old time medical ethics just an artifact of economics?

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This is a redo of an earlier essay with minimal editorial change. I repeat it now with a nagging thought that "that ship has sailed som...