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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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