<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" > <channel><title>Comments on: US health care: &quot;Go for the name-brand&quot;</title> <atom:link href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/10/us-health-care-go-for-name-brand.html/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/10/us-health-care-go-for-name-brand.html</link> <description></description> <lastBuildDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:04:00 +0000</lastBuildDate> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <xhtml:meta xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" name="robots" content="noindex" /> <item><title>By: Criminallopath</title><link>http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/10/us-health-care-go-for-name-brand.html#comment-68154</link> <dc:creator>Criminallopath</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2006 22:10:00 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/10/us-health-care-go-for-the-name-brand.html#comment-68154</guid> <description>Criminosteopath?&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;He was recently convicted in Ventura County Superior Court of beating his wife and smoking meth.  The amazing this is, the judge, gave him a slap on the wrist sentence and this scumbag is going to try to get a license to practice.  The other criminosteopath is busy at Ventura Orthopaedic Sport &amp; Hand Surgery testifying on junk science PI litigation matters.  I am sure you can find these bretheren of yours if you look hard enough. ;)</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Criminosteopath?</p><p>He was recently convicted in Ventura County Superior Court of beating his wife and smoking meth.  The amazing this is, the judge, gave him a slap on the wrist sentence and this scumbag is going to try to get a license to practice.  The other criminosteopath is busy at Ventura Orthopaedic Sport &#038; Hand Surgery testifying on junk science PI litigation matters.  I am sure you can find these bretheren of yours if you look hard enough. <img src="http://cdn2.kevinmd.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif?e8bd46" alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /></p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Anonymous</title><link>http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/10/us-health-care-go-for-name-brand.html#comment-68150</link> <dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:08:00 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/10/us-health-care-go-for-the-name-brand.html#comment-68150</guid> <description>What about the osteopaths?  Does the fact that i&#039;m a DO make me magically immune from any of your outrageous blathering?&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Where is your evil twin brother &quot;criminosteopath&quot;?</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What about the osteopaths?  Does the fact that i&#8217;m a DO make me magically immune from any of your outrageous blathering?</p><p>Where is your evil twin brother &#8220;criminosteopath&#8221;?</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Criminallopath</title><link>http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/10/us-health-care-go-for-name-brand.html#comment-68132</link> <dc:creator>Criminallopath</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:53:00 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/10/us-health-care-go-for-the-name-brand.html#comment-68132</guid> <description>The audacity of this whole &quot;don&#039;t go overseas for treatment because you can&#039;t sue for malpractice&quot; is something that one could only expect from the allopathic medical community.  The same people that devalue the lives of children, stay at home mothers and the poor and who constantly bitch and moan about malpractice domestically now attempting to ask &quot;who are you going to sue?&quot;  Priceless.  Only in the minds of the allopaths could such a position be expected to fly without scrutiny.  What are the allopaths truely concerned about (being able to sue clinicians is not high on the list)?  Competition.  It would only take a few Fortune 500 companies or a single large public institution to utilize overseas providers for non-emergency surgical care in order to start the greebag domestic surgeons to sweat.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The audacity of this whole &#8220;don&#8217;t go overseas for treatment because you can&#8217;t sue for malpractice&#8221; is something that one could only expect from the allopathic medical community.  The same people that devalue the lives of children, stay at home mothers and the poor and who constantly bitch and moan about malpractice domestically now attempting to ask &#8220;who are you going to sue?&#8221;  Priceless.  Only in the minds of the allopaths could such a position be expected to fly without scrutiny.  What are the allopaths truely concerned about (being able to sue clinicians is not high on the list)?  Competition.  It would only take a few Fortune 500 companies or a single large public institution to utilize overseas providers for non-emergency surgical care in order to start the greebag domestic surgeons to sweat.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: DrPak</title><link>http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/10/us-health-care-go-for-name-brand.html#comment-68130</link> <dc:creator>DrPak</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:28:00 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/10/us-health-care-go-for-the-name-brand.html#comment-68130</guid> <description>A lot of these &quot;outsourced&quot; hospitals are staffed by the best doctors in the country. It&#039;s practically racist to just &lt;b&gt;assume&lt;/b&gt; that hospitals in India or Bangkok provide worse healthcare than hospitals in the US just because they are in developing countries.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A lot of these &#8220;outsourced&#8221; hospitals are staffed by the best doctors in the country. It&#8217;s practically racist to just <b>assume</b> that hospitals in India or Bangkok provide worse healthcare than hospitals in the US just because they are in developing countries.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Anonymous</title><link>http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/10/us-health-care-go-for-name-brand.html#comment-68121</link> <dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2006 03:32:00 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/10/us-health-care-go-for-the-name-brand.html#comment-68121</guid> <description>Are you saying Dr. Prasadhi isn&#039;t name brand?  Are you a bigot or something?</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you saying Dr. Prasadhi isn&#8217;t name brand?  Are you a bigot or something?</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Anonymous</title><link>http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/10/us-health-care-go-for-name-brand.html#comment-68119</link> <dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2006 03:27:00 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/10/us-health-care-go-for-the-name-brand.html#comment-68119</guid> <description>&quot;My suggestion is to only obtain your care in Florida, and PLEASE only from an academic practitioner at a name-brand type place like Mayo.&quot;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Huh? As far as I know, Florida has a pretty screwed up healthcare system.  I don&#039;t think Grandma drives down from New York every Winter to see Dr. Rajnish Prasadhi with a shingle out on AIA in Deerfield Beach.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;My suggestion is to only obtain your care in Florida, and PLEASE only from an academic practitioner at a name-brand type place like Mayo.&#8221;</p><p>Huh? As far as I know, Florida has a pretty screwed up healthcare system.  I don&#8217;t think Grandma drives down from New York every Winter to see Dr. Rajnish Prasadhi with a shingle out on AIA in Deerfield Beach.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Anonymous</title><link>http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/10/us-health-care-go-for-name-brand.html#comment-68117</link> <dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2006 03:06:00 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/10/us-health-care-go-for-the-name-brand.html#comment-68117</guid> <description>This is the most ridiculous assertion of the day. That someone would choose a provider so that they would be able to more easily sue them!  My suggestion is to only obtain your care in Florida, and PLEASE only from an academic practitioner at a name-brand type place like Mayo.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is the most ridiculous assertion of the day. That someone would choose a provider so that they would be able to more easily sue them!  My suggestion is to only obtain your care in Florida, and PLEASE only from an academic practitioner at a name-brand type place like Mayo.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Criminallopath</title><link>http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/10/us-health-care-go-for-name-brand.html#comment-68116</link> <dc:creator>Criminallopath</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2006 02:58:00 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/10/us-health-care-go-for-the-name-brand.html#comment-68116</guid> <description>With all of the malpractice that goes on in this country and all of the whining that providers do about actually being sued while at the same time attempting to restrict the rights of patients... trying to pull this trick is like the pot calling the kettle black.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With all of the malpractice that goes on in this country and all of the whining that providers do about actually being sued while at the same time attempting to restrict the rights of patients&#8230; trying to pull this trick is like the pot calling the kettle black.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> </channel> </rss>
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