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Two research  groups have demonstrated brain imaging findings in collegiate football players over the course of a season.Importantly these a...

Choosing Wisely (CW) is an initiative or campaign lead by the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation (ABIMF) to change the thinking ...

The mega-thought leaders,the established leadership of some of the major,influential professional medical organizations, and an alarming num...

In a 1964 obscenity case, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart admitted that he might not be able to specifically define the parameters of p...

What happens with the population medicine approach (PMA) when one considers how thing really work according to the insights of public choice...

The "were you wrong then.." question is a classic attorney question thrown at an expert witness who has been caught in a contradic...

Eliminating dangerous and unnecessary medical tests and treatments is the ostensible aim of the "Choosing Wisely" ( CW) initiative...

 The population medicine approach does not respect  the separateness and sanctity of the individual and individual liberty. It is antithetic...

Greg Scandlen at the Health Policy Blog comments on the term "value based" quoting from a worth- reading article by David Carr wr...

Perhaps self-interest in a better word to describe what is going here. There is a wide spread and naive notion that for-profit institution...

 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...