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Medicaid To Stop Paying for Preventable Events. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that it will no longer pay healthcare providers for treating Medicaid patients with illnesses, injuries…
Source of the E.Coli Breakout Could Be Bean Sprouts from Germany
The search continues and the latest potential source leads to their own farms in Germany, however it is stated as only a hot lead. The restaurant singled out where
Kinect Technology – A Grocery Cart that Can Follow The Wheelchair
This gets better all the time with the Kinect technology and this is still being developed as you can see in the video with bringing laptop with you to the…
The Future of Medicine: Do Pre-med Students Have a Clue?
At this writing, I am in Atlanta visiting our daughter at Emory University. This may be the only college campus in the nation where you can’t buy Pepsi. Coke is…
How to Be a Responsible Hospital Administrator
This is an issue really close to home for two reasons. First, this facility is truly in my neighborhood and second because I did some work for this agency in…
Advocating for Patients at ASCO, The “World Series” of Cancer
I am off to Chicago to mingle with 30,000+ people from around the world whose passion is curing cancer and helping people who are living with it. In years past…
Rationing the Doctor’s Time
In the early 1990s, prior to Medicaid and SCHIP expansions, physicians spent about the same number of minutes with both Medicaid and privately insured patients. By the year 2000, physicians…
How to Use Genomics to Treat Lung Cancer
Drug companies can use genomics to create targeted drugs like imatinib (Gleevec) and trastuzumab (Herceptin.) Physicians can then use the results of genomic studies to guide prescribing. As discussed in…
Irrational Attitudes Toward Risk
When is the last time you heard anyone suggest that the climbing of Mt. Everest should be banned? Never? Yet: When is the last time you heard anyone suggest that…
Don’t Kick a Unicorn When it’s Down
There has been a significant outcry against the proposed ACO regs: everything's wrong and nothing's right about them, or so some would have us believe. There has been a significant…
