Healthcare Policy
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CROWDED HOSPITAL, BULGING EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT
Three and a half years ago I experienced first hand the situation about which this blogpost is written. The situation…
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PROTECTED MEDICAL INFORMATION—HIPAA AT WORK
On June 5, 1981, five young men in Los Angeles were diagnosed with a rare form of pneumonia, probably Pneumocystis…
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FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT
In addition to examining and treating patients, doctors are responsible for an inordinately long list of administrative duties which they…
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NEW AMERICAN MEDICAL SCHOOLS
For decades, the Association of American Medical Colleges (now called the AAMC) has been concerned about the shortage of physicians…
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GETTING INTO A RESIDENCY
I’ve written about residency “match day” on a few past occasions. That’s the big day in March when soon-to-graduate medical…
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SURVEY: TRUST IN HEALTH CARE AGENCIES HAS DECLINED
In a recent blogpost, I alluded to the attitude of the American public toward vaccines, the CDC, and local and…
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SPENDING TO TRAIN FAMILY DOCS DIVERTED
Increasing the number of practicing primary care physicians has been a serious consideration for the past fifty years. It seemed…
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PROBLEMS WITH RESIDENCY MATCH PROGRAM
I touched on it briefly in the “Residency ‘Match Day’” article, but a lot of shots are being taken at…
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MEDICARE FRAUD
Fraudulent billing of Medicare is a problem of mammoth proportion. Mammoth not only because of the number of individuals, companies,…
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ANOTHER MEDICARE RUSE!
Medicare is once again being disingenuous in its attempts to better compensate primary care physicians. Their usual method is to…
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