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Month: August 2012

Stupid Tuesday questions, Frommer’s edition

August 21, 2012Russell Saunders 49 Comments

The Better Half and I were on the road this past weekend to spend time with friends, with what was supposed to be an overnight stay in New York City.  However, the Critter decided that point in our travels needed… Continue Reading →

stupid tuesday questions brookyln diner, new york city, times square

On profits and patient care

August 20, 2012Russell Saunders 32 Comments

The tension that exists between providing good care for patients and making a profit in the healthcare business is one of my signal preoccupations.  In our current fee-for-service model, there exists a seemingly intractable conflict between prioritizing the needs of… Continue Reading →

healthcare policy, patient care affordable care act, bill frist, hca, medicare, obamacare, rick scott

Apologies for light posting

August 16, 2012Russell Saunders 6 Comments

I’ve been covering the inpatient service for my practice over the past week, and have been a little bit busier than usual.  Blogging has, unfortunately, had to take a backseat to my doing the things I get paid to do. … Continue Reading →

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Your doctor should have an agenda

August 14, 2012Russell Saunders 82 Comments

Brother blogger and good buddy Will clued me in to an interesting post by Ken over at Popehat.  It’s about Florida’s appallingly stupid law that vaguely forbids doctors from asking patients about gun ownership “unless information is relevant to patient’s… Continue Reading →

patient care gun safety, popehat

Stupid Tuesday questions, Nosferatu edition

August 14, 2012Russell Saunders 34 Comments

Not so long ago, I copped to reading “The Hunger Games,” and got a little bit shirty at the notion that doing so reflected negatively on my erudition. [First aside: Blinded Trials is still graced with a steady stream of… Continue Reading →

stupid tuesday questions the hunger games, twilight

Project Runway: a psychological study

August 13, 2012Russell Saunders 39 Comments

I think I’ll start by getting the spoiler alert out of the way.  This post contains spoilers for last week’s episode of Project Runway.  If you haven’t watched it, but would still like to do so with an element of… Continue Reading →

Uncategorized contagion, project runway

My two totally non-partisan reactions to the Ryan pick

August 12, 2012Russell Saunders 20 Comments

Well, first my totally partisan reaction — I was never in a million, billion years going to vote to Mitt Romney, and his veep pick certainly did not move that timeline up any.  As an apparently easy-to-spot non-statist liberal, I… Continue Reading →

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With all due respect to surgeons

August 9, 2012Russell Saunders 23 Comments

Back in the murky mists of the 1990s, I did my surgery rotation.  When I first got to medical school, for some reason I thought I wanted to be a surgeon.  I do not know where on earth I got… Continue Reading →

medical education bullying, medical education, Pauline Chen

What’s the market solution?

August 9, 2012Russell Saunders 72 Comments

I find describing my political leanings difficult sometimes.  An easy answer would probably be “liberal,” since I favor a pretty robust social safety net, and am definitely to the left on most social issues.  That said, I am aware of… Continue Reading →

healthcare policy, medical ethics, patient care

Your man in the trenches

August 7, 2012Russell Saunders 67 Comments

Greetings from a medical office in Massachusetts, democracy’s laboratory! This just in: A bill that will adjust virtually every piece of the state’s health care system is now law. Gov. Deval Patrick signed the legislation Monday morning in a packed… Continue Reading →

healthcare policy deval patrick, health care cost containment bill, healthcare costs

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