retired doc's thoughts

 Let's begin with explaining Men of System and Population Medicine Approach (PMA)  Adam Smith , in his first book, The Theory of Mor...

A recent article in BMJ has stirred  more comments regards the possibility that there is a "j shaped" curve in regard to the relat...

Dr. Harold C. Sox has played a leadership role in the American College of Physicians  for many years, serving as President of the ACP and lo...

The concept "social justice" was the bait. The folks at ABIM, ABIMF, ACP and RWJ declared without even a token effort at historica...

No longer do the third party payers (TPP) have to deal with the physicians and patients working against their bottom line. Physicians,  pati...

The stated reason for the existence of the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation (ABIMF) is to further medical professionalism.,the...

The following comments were inspired by this insightful and very well written commentary by Margarit Gur-Arie entitled "Is the Nurembe...

Why are more internists failing the Maintenance of Certification (MOC) exam? Kevin Pho on his medical blog offers two suggestions. See here...

Adam smith spoke of the men of system- men with a dangerous mixture of hubris and naivete  who presumed to know what is best for every one  ...

Several of my favorite economists have said that the real good stuff in economics is revealed in the econ 101 courses. One of the secrets re...

Dr. John Benson Jr, Emeritus President  of the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation,makes it clear  what direction he wants the Ch...

 The issue of possible conflicts of interest (COI) has arisen in regard to both the National Quality Forum,  (NQF) and the popular UpToDate....

The situation involving recent projections about job loss and Obamacare from the Congressional Budget Office and the White House's react...

Leah Binder, writing in Forbes on line ( see here ) argues that the answer is "maybe" at least as regards what she calls badly des...

Advocates of Obamacare in defense  of it in spite of all the flaws and the ever increasingly list of unintended and intended- but not advert...

Projections assuming the wide acceptance of peri operative beta blocker guidelines in Europe suggests the answer is a frightening yes..See h...

As this Forbes article by Scott Gottlieb explains,Medicare Advantage programs are in the cross hairs of the Obama administration as ACA con...

Of course no one person wrote the bill,it took a small village of cronies to put it together being as careful as they could to make sure tha...

George H. Smith in his book "The System of Liberty" in the chapter entitled "Liberalism,Old and New" discusses how the c...

 Matt Welch, writing in Reason.com ( see here ) offers the following concise summary of what is fundamental to making ACA work. "The...