Use It or Lose It: The Price of Inactivity
Do you need a good incentive to exercise? Check out this set of pictures. They may well surprise you. Do you need a good incentive to exercise? Check out this…
The Mandate May Fall, But Not Reform
Opponents of health care reform, whose case will be heard next week by the Supreme Court, base their complaint against the Obama administration’s signature domestic achievement on the claim that…
Physicians Should Be Part of Online HealthCare Discussions
The Risks of Not Participating in Healthcare and Social Media The Internet has forever changed the way our patients will approach healthcare. Digital or social media is NOT a passing…
Why Doctors Should Have Their Own Website
A lot of doctors feel it's unethical for doctors to have a website because they feel it is a form of advertising . They feel that a website is a…
Why Doctors Should Have Their Own Website
A lot of doctors feel it's unethical for doctors to have a website because they feel it is a form of advertising . They feel that a website is a…
The Right to Eat What We Want
Last July, McDonalds’ Happy Meals became a little less happy. Kids in pursuit of culinary happiness will have to be satisfied with fewer French fries and some added fruit. Surprisingly,…
How to Improve Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Scores
Poised at the nexus of Supreme Court oral arguments for health care reform constitutionality and the close of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Value-Based Purchasing…
Will Your Local Hospital Exist in 10 years? Should it?
The pressures mounting on most institutions as the years trudge by are mounting… they are mired in mountains of regulations, the need to implement millions of dollars of IT “improvements”,…
What the Supreme Court (and You) Won’t Hear About Health Reform
By Michael L. Millenson By Michael L. MillensonMichael L. Millenson, President of Health Quality AdvisorsThere’s a reason the pundits and legal poohbahs are prattling on about the “severability” of the…
Doctor as Patient
Dr. Schellhammer Dr. SchellhammerThe other day I interviewed Dr. Paul Schellhammer, a noted urologic oncologist in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Paul is 71 now and is very well known and respected…
