retired doc's thoughts

The quick answer is blame the physicians and pass draconian,liberty crushing,contract abrogating, legislation to control medical care cost...

There was a time a few years ago when there was sincere honest thoughtful criticism of he concept of quality adjusted life years ( QALY ) ,...

Dr. Otis W. Brawley,of the American Cancer Society, characterized the USPSTF as ideally suited to provide an objective,unbiased assessment o...

Quote for the day: Dare we ask what we are creating as we move to make doctors shift-workers, business minded. algorithm-driven, group-th...

I have criticized the "New" ( sixth edition of the ACP's ethics manual) before. I stand by that criticism, however, I was at l...

Dr. HR Nelson and her colleagues have updated the continuing data accumulation regarding HRT ,largely from the Women's Health Initiativ...

The current edition of the ACCP guidelines is big and filled with much that is important. I thank Dr. RW Donnell ( aka the blogger, Dr RW) f...

In 1993, economist Bruce Yandle wrote a noteworthy commentary in the journal Regulation. In it he coined the term "Baptist and the Boot...

Kudos again to Dr. Roy Poses for his tireless efforts to battle the forces that are destroying health care core's values. See here on...

If you are the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court you have the power of magic words. The individual mandate of ACA was called a mandate beca...

Kudos to Dr Doug Perednia,author of the blog Road to Hellth , for his denunciation (see here ) of AMA's latest egregious attack on tr...

I have written in amazement about this lawsuit before.Several plaintiffs are attempting to assert what they believe to be their right to r...

An important Cato policy paper can be found here .Among many other important comments in the paper is the charge that Obamacare is not jus...

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act had a number of beneficiaries.Part of the legislation was money for physicians to use to purcha...

Dr. Richard Fogoros in his blog, The Covert Rationing Blog ,made the observation that big health insurance companies were on board with Oba...

I have completed marathons for 35 years and an interesting ( at least to me) change in the pattern of post marathon recovery time has eme...

My earlier blog commentary on the recent Lancet meta-analysis on outcomes of primary prevention trials in patients designated as "low r...

See here for the latest pronouncement of the USPSTF regarding PSA screening.In a word "don't" I suppose "moderate certa...

I had thought that aspirin was for the most part not considered very useful as a medication that could prevent venous thrombosis but had an ...

The EP cardiologist and long time medical blogger, Dr Wes, hits a home run with this commentary about the recent study that claimed a relat...