Drug Prices in the United States
Pharmaceuticals are again making the news. Martin Shkreli, CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals is once more in the news. That is the gentleman...
How did Something as Personal as Medicine become so Impersonal?
I first started practicing medicine in 1969 as a family practitioner. I by chance became one of those rare people whose mentor was the...
What are all the Acronyms?
Below are some of the acronyms explained to help you in choosing your health plan. Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) – A PPO plan...
The Meitiv Case – The Propagation of Police States
This is a recycled blog topic that perhaps can use repeating so we all remain vigilant against our eroding rights and freedoms as...
The Benevolence of Big Pharma
When did medicine ever leave its altruistic roots of caring for fellow man to enter the world of capitalism and forget about the...
New Pharmaceutical Surgical Machine
I understand the large pharmaceutical companies are now working in concert to build one of the new robotic da Vinci surgical machines....
Prescription Woes
Anybody wonder today when we have all this new medication available to us why we are not living longer and better? How many of the...
Electronic Prescription Writing
Remember how great we have always heard electronic prescription writing was going to be? Our prescription would always be there waiting...
How is Medicine practiced when the Physician owns the Diagnostic equipment?
A number of years ago I worked in a small Louisiana emergency department. That hospital did about 50 CT’s of the head per year for the...
Our Country Heading Toward a Police State
‘Free Range’ Parents Found Responsible for Child Neglect After Allowing Kids to Walk Home Alone Mar 3, 2015, 5:05 PM ET – By CANDACE...