retired doc's thoughts

Patients and physicians alike had to be a bit worried when this study suggested that PPIs decrease the efficacy of clopidogrel and could l...

Health care costs too much and it will cost more and we are told that a major cause of this is the fee for service system (apparently obesit...

Arnold Kling is one of the economists whose blogs I have begun to read lately ( lately being since the stock market tanking in 2008 scared ...

The United States has moved to impose a tariff on imported tires from China.See here for WSJ article. With the stock market swoon of 2008 ...

The answer seems to be a firm "maybe". Remember aminophylline.Once a mainstay in the treatment of asthma and COPD exacerbations as...

I read the blog Wired from time to time to make some slight attempt to keep up with really cool innovations and products in the land of the...

The answer according to Dr. John D. Rybock ,from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, is "yes". Dr. Rybock in a letter to the editor...

Actually, there already is a new oral anticoagulant available in Europe and Canada at least for the application of clot prophylaxis in hip a...

"We are not spending enough of health care" is the point made by economist Mark Perry (economist at the University of Michigan) an...

Everyone with any interest in the proposed health care legislation should go here to read DrRich's latest blog entry in which he tell ...

Does section 1233 ( of the current version of the House bill dealing with Health Care "reform") make end of life counseling mandat...

Here is one view offered by one of my favorite economists, Arnold Kling . Some proponents of certain elements of the administration's h...

I do not claim to be an expert on the incredibly insightful writing of Friederick Hayek and certainly do not really know what he would said...

I missed this when it was published earlier this year in the Lancet and it was called to my attention in the blog "Junkfood Science...

An argument can be made for either candidate. The canary,as in the canary in the coal mine, served as a early warning system for respirable ...

The Director of the CBO believes we can't at least not in the context of the spending involved in the health care bill. The administrati...

New physician payment rules from CMS have been proposed, can be found here and will likely go into effect January 2010. The Obama administ...

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 ...