Stephen C Schimpff, MD is a quasi-retired internist, professor of medicine and public policy, former CEO of the University of Maryland Medical Center….
Technology to lower costs rather than accelerate them. Smart phones to increase physician and other providers’ productivity. Fewer primary care…
More chronic illnesses, more old age impairments, consumers demanding more quality and convenience, physicians no longer in typical private practice, and high…
Caring For Chronic Illnesses Should Be Different
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Our medical care system does not deal well with chronic illnesses; it really concentrates on and is best at treating…
Lifestyles Cause Most Serious Disease and Deaths
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We all recognize that as a society we have some adverse lifestyle behaviors such as overeating a non-nutritious diet, being fairly sedentary,…
America Has a Healthcare Paradox
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We have a real paradox in American healthcare. On the one hand we have exceptionally well educated and well trained providers who…
Lung cancer causes 160,000 deaths each year. Diagnostic and treatment options have improved greatly in the past decade and continue to advance…
Lung cancer causes 160,000 deaths each year – more than the next four cancers combined. Diagnostic and treatment options…
Most patients found to have lung cancer die within a year largely because their tumor has already spread, making treatment…