Telemedicine and the PCP Cliff
Everyone on Capitol Hill seems focused on the so-called “fiscal cliff” - January 1st. Not on the radar, though, is the rapidly approaching cliff involving primary care physicians, PCPs. Everyone on Capitol Hill seems focused on the so-called “fiscal…
Should People Who Cause Their Own Illnesses Pay for Their Own Health Care?
David Friedmanweighs in: David Friedmanweighs in:I recently came across a news story about a British legislator who proposed that patients suffering from life style illnesses, medical problems mainly due to…
Portable UV Disinfector To Control Hospital Acquired Infections
Technology provides hospitals with tools which can greatly improve their quality of care. This small portable disinfector is one such tool.Hospital acquired infection is an age old problem which refuses…
Save a Fetus, Kill a Woman?
So, the (mainly white male) anti-abortion activists in Mississippi are probably a hootin’ and a hollerin.’ They have (almost) succeeded in shutting down the one and only abortion clinic…
Ensuring That Low Dose is the Right Dose
The lower dose radiation mantra has been repeated so loud and so long that some in the radiologic community think that it has lost its power. Siemens Healthcare has an…
Siemens’ Brave New iWorld for Imaging
We’re a mobility-based world these days, so what’s keeping the iPad out of the ER or the OR or from being used by radiologists and physicians consulting on the same…
Salads Are NOT Good For You!
Have you ever noticed how many times people begin weight loss attempts by eating salads? How successful are they? Have you ever noticed how many times people begin weight loss…
Everything We Know in Health is Wrong. Medicine is a Science, Not Dogma. #askforevidence
Reading the BMJ today I was struck by a number of stories that appear to tell us that nothing is what we think it is in medical practice.There were reports…
Mental Illness More Malignant than Melanoma
If you throw mental illness and addiction into one cesspool, take the graduated weight for that side of the equation, and then go about seeing how your second side fares,…
Deval Patrick’s Wisdom (and lack thereof) on Health Reform
Governor Deval Patrick is rightly proud of the progress Massachusetts has made in health reform. Essentially every child has health insurance and nearly every adult, too. Businesses have not dropped…
