retired doc's thoughts

Apparently the roofers union believed the administration's claim that if you like your health care insurance plan you can keep it. Now t...

Diastolic heart failure had been for the most part a diagnosis of exclusion.Symptoms and physical signs of heart failure (Hf) and an elevate...

I argue it may have. Being a physician and knowing what I know about physicians , the good and the less good, I absolutely hate to go to a...

Thomas Sowell tells us that the first rule of economics is: We live in a universe of scarcity and there will be trade-offs. and The fir...

Stimulated by my own frustrating inability in recent years to run as far on my weekend "long runs" as I could just 3 or 4 years ea...

When Chinese railroad laborers in the 19th century used snake oil they consider it  a legitimate and p useful product. The story goes that t...

 Happy anniversary to self. About ten years and now  slightly over one thousand blog commentaries have passed by  since I started a blog a...

In the ten  years since I began blogging  much  of what has been written about medical professionalism, I find alarming. The New Professiona...

We don't debate  the merits of quality adjust life year determinations any longer, we just do them.  But, there was a time a few ye...

Quotes for the day From FA Hayek and PJ O'Rourke bring a year-end message about envy and social justice. Quoting  the economist, Antho...

George Will has commented on the recent authoritarian  activity of of attorneys general and  the justice department to go after climate ch...

 Hubris is the belief that one is intellectually superior to his fellow human being.That can be manifest as just an air of superiority , so...

Dr. Harold Sox in a JAMA viewpoint commentary ( see here for link) addresses  three questions regarding 'Population health approach...

A blog   entry, now several years old,by one of my favorite medical bloggers, DB aka Dr. Robert Centor, offered an important insight into so...

Dr. Wes on his blog gives an update on the alarming progress ABIMF and fellow travelers have made in their program to exert control of med...

   An article in the Jan 24, 2005 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine(vol. 165 p1...

Here are the comments of Apu,owner of the Kwik e Mart after Homer Simpson quite his job there: "He slept,he stole,he was rude to th...

The professional medical elite have had to admit that yes, sometimes in the past the P4P projects haven't worked out very well but we ca...

 Note: the core ideas expressed below originally appeared in a blog post  published 1/16/15 under the title " Are patients pawns on t...

Most  older folks who jog,run or cycle probably experience a sluggish,hard to get going period when they first start out on their exercise s...