Top Quotes of the Week
“The high winds caused many medical records to be scattered throughout Joplin and across the Ozarks. St. John’s (Regional Medical Center)…is asking anyone who has found medical records…to hold these…
Why Do Hospitals Slow Down on Weekends?
Hospitals start most weeks with a low occupancy but quickly get to gridlock by early to mid-week, driven by elective scheduled admissions. This bunching of scheduled admissions has now been…
A Silver Lining in GOP Attempts to Defund PPACA implementation
The Hill (CBO: Defunding healthcare law could end drug benefits) has an interesting piece suggesting that if Republicans are successful in blocking funding to implement the Patient Protection and Affordable…
How to Lower Cancer Care’s Costs
A year-and-a-half ago, Howard Brody of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston wrote an opinion article in the New England Journal of Medicine calling on every medical specialty…
Device Separates Stem Cells During Surgery for PAD Treatment
This is happening in Arizona and also back in August of 2010 I wrote about the same or similar process happening here in Los Angeles and the link below has…
Most Common Male Sexual Dysfunction – Promising Results for Treatment
Premature ejaculation is a distressing male sexual dysfunction that is more common than erectile dysfunction (ED) and has a major impact on the quality of life for men and their…
How to Start an Adult Discussion on Medicare
Now is a good time to take a deep breath and entertain a serious discussion about the future of Medicare. Republicans just lost a special election in New York that…
Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen
Forty-four percent of emergency physicians say their biggest obstacle in cutting costs in emergency departments is the fear of lawsuits. Antibodies used to fight off disease might become seriously compromised…
Diabetes management trends
As a chronic disease that is strongly tied to trends in demographics, incidence/prevalence and other forces, diabetes is inexorably growing in its impact on healthcare and, therefore, the need for…
Vermont Gov. Signs Single Payer Bill into Law
The governor of the state of Vermont has just signed legislation into law that would make health care a “right and not a privilege”. The bill would establish an independent…
