retired doc's thoughts

Bastiat's "seen and the unseen" and Thomas Sowell's "and then what" express the same basic notion. That notion i...

Dr. Roy Poses has tirelessly written about the loss of professionalism in the medical profession. Here is the link for a recent commentary ...

See here for comments from economist Garrett Jones. If Obamacare increases the cost of hiring full time employees versus part time worke...

Thomas Sowell said the following as a good summary of the second half of his book Knowledge and Decisions: Even within democratic nations,...

The headline is correct .See here for background on this agency ruling that makes the headline true. See here for my earlier posting of ...

Promoted as a means of not only improving health care quality but saving money ( the often quoted $ 77.8  Billion that computers would save ...

 In regard to consumer goods markets most economists accept the superiority of the market versus central planning.Almost all believe the inv...

The following quote explains the title.See here for further details All people have the moral obligation to care for those who are les...

Counting deaths is much easier than assessing quality of life. Drs Pamela Hartzband and Jerome Groopman discuss the vagaries and uncertai...

Not too long ago the United States was one of the most economically free countries..Not so now, as measured by the Frazier Institute in Cana...

The clumsy, global health care spending caps enacted in Massachusetts is a harbinger of what the medical planning elites are pushing for the...

Goodhart's law expresses one of those insights to human behavior that we see play out again and again and increasing so in medical care ...

Dr. Thomas Szasz died 9/08/2012 at age 92. I have read and admired his work for the past 30 years.A real champion of liberty is lost. (Par...

Most physicians probably have never heard of the Federation of State Medical Boards ( FSMB ) though all are aware of their own state board a...

The Massachusetts legislature and governor realizing the incredible success of central economic planning from their study of the history of ...

In the August 21,2012 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine Drs .Christine K. Cassel ,Virginia Hood and Werner Bauer have offered the rea...

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...