Medical Marijuana
Having recently been in Colorado Springs, medicinal marijuana supply shops are having a hard time keeping up with the demand. More and...
Throwing Grandma under the Bus
How many of you seniors out there are having trouble seeing a physician if you are Medicare age? Remember the architects of our current...
Our Rank in the Healthcare World
One of the largest problems in medicine in the U.S. today is super specialization. It is great to have a physician who knows so much...
The Sad Facts of Malpractice Suits
I was asked the other day by an elderly statesman about what tests physicians run to avoid malpractice suits. What percentage of medical...
A “Gross” Domestic Product
The U.S. spends 14 percent of its Gross Domestic Product on health care. Unfortunately, many Americans have no health insurance and must...
The Severe Compartmentalization of Medical care
Let’s look ahead in time. Why, with all the new technology, is the life expectancy remaining essentially the same? Why with the United...
The Attrition of Diagnostic Skills
Since the late sixties, medical technology has jumped ahead by eons, the same as most technology has in recent years. In the late sixties...
Taking Care of the Whole Patient
During my early years in medicine we pretty much took care of our whole patient. Our general medical knowledge allowed us to care for our...
Quotas and Time Limits
I started practice as a young family practitioner in Princeton, MN in 1969. At this time there were no residencies in Family Practice or...
The Evolution of Healthcare
I am a physician who after graduating from Medical School in 1968 has watched the evolution of health care over the past four decades. I...