retired doc's thoughts

Fee for service is said to be a major cause of the high health care costs that we are told must be brought under control to save the economy...

This post is a reply to a comment made on one of my earlier postings that inquired about the single payer option for U.S.health care or at l...

Medscape has a republished a report from the National Demonstration Project regarding the Medical Home concept that appeared in the Annals ...

Go here .His satire elegantly captures so much of what is happening and is threatening to happen.Those of you who still get up everyday a...

President Obama recently spoke to the American Medical Association and offered in part some reassurances that the public choice option would...

Note this is a republication of an earlier version with a new headline and some introductory remarks..As pointed out by Bob Doherty in a ...

From the WSJ we read about the entity that may be the group that really will pull the budget strings for Medicare and have major influence...

DrRich's blog entries typically are insightful and entertaining. This one goes way beyond his usual very high standards.Go here to rea...

Aggravated DocSurg offers cogent comments about the seeming lack of logic or common sense in their program of denying payments for so call...

The answer provided in a recent issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine suggests use of U/S to help determine how long to continue anticoag...

Dr. David D. Nerenbert writing in the May 19,2009 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine offers his analysis of why internal medicine is...

The Obama administration is promoting the idea that we can finance a wide and expensive variety of government programs-including better qual...

The very name Institute of Medicine for reasons that have eluded me seems to mean to many a venerable assortment of very wise people who unl...

The story of PPIs apparently interfering with the beneficial effect of Plavix is widely distributed and read. Now we see data (see here f...

One of the package of health care "reforms" that will increase quality, provide care for all and save money is the widespread impl...

The Last Psychiatrist (TLP). suggests that an unholy alliance between medical insurance companies and medical academia is well underway.See ...

To reform" health care" (and to fix the nation's economy) we are told we must have electronic medical records, government fund...

Well, the early relatively small studies gave the public health rule makers some empirical justification for claiming success, further study...

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 ...