retired doc's thoughts

See here for what happened to a nurse in England who dared to help let the public know how bad things were at one NHS service about which ...

When I read a recent blog posting by DB,who postings inspired me to start to blog and with whom I rarely disagree, I was sharpening up my ...

Here is a link to a discussion of more problems with electronic medical records (EMRs) that ties in with the issue of individual versus gro...

The first thing I remember about Earth day were reports of some cases of histoplasmosis in a group of well meaning well-meaners who breath...

Worth reading is this commentary by internist Dr. Marc Siegel who cautions that "health insurance does not equal health care".Nei...

In Canada, there is universal health care with a single payer and for the most part no opting of the system.Their supreme court ruled that ...

To reform medical care we are told that we need three things; 1)electronic medical records ( EMR ), 2)comparative effectiveness research (d...

Those, including several medical bloggers, who seem to have placed more than a little faith in the notion of a government funded and run com...

I written before about my skepticism regarding the Medical Home concept.It has been suggested that the home does not go far enough and that...

Just as we thought there could not possibly be any more purported benefits of the statin drugs we are treated to still another reason to ge...

This article from the Archives of Internal Medicine seems to link a measure of variability in red blood cell ( rbc ) size with all cause mo...

See this article from WSJ online to gather facts about how poorly things are working out in the grand universal health care program for Ma...

The British NHS is investigating how things could go so very wrong at one of their hospitals,the Stafford hospital . See here for the news...

I had not heard the term " preventionist " before reading this excellent entry by Dr. Michal Accad . His thoughtful essay in part...

In Great Britain, at least for some, the safety value for the NHS is private health care. In Canada, if you can afford it, the safety value...

In the March 24,2009 on line issue of NEJM the results of the Nice Sugar trial are published and shows that conventional treatment ( tar...

As for as the main stream medical journals ( JAMA , NEJM , Annals Internal Medicine) the health care issue is largely already decided with c...

Here is on article discussing the possible cons of the introduction of the HFA inhalers and the outlawing of the older CFC type (except fo...

We have been told by President Obama that we cannot fix the economic mess without fixing health care (and education and the environment, for...

Tell me again why we cannot get out of this economic mess without fixing health care? I have read over twenty putative explanations for why ...