From the monthly archives:

June 2007

Sicko: The other side

June 30, 2007

Michael Moore points fingers, and doesn’t allow the accused to defend themselves.
The Washington Post agrees:
He never interviews actual veterans of the system: doctors, nurses, administrators — only the victims.
Thus we get a bottom-up, not a top-down or a full-frontal view of the creaking system. The film progresses from anecdote to anecdote along predictable lines: [...]

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Surgeonsblog turns one

June 30, 2007

Congrats Dr. Schwab. One of the best on the web.

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iPhone hysteria

June 30, 2007

A psychiatrist examines the craziness.

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Patients with numerous allergies

June 30, 2007

Predominantly female?
Are women really more likely to have allergic reactions to medications than men, or are they simply more likely to receive a greater variety of medications over time and thus discover that they are allergic to them? Or are women just more likely to complain about subtle adverse reactions than men?

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Plastic surgery or not?

June 30, 2007

Take the celebrity quiz. When you’re finished that, you can take a look at facelifts for dogs.

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Health care and the military

June 30, 2007

Panda should know. He compares the health care with the military:
Consider the American military in comparison to the typical European military. The American military is an expensive, technologically sophisticated organization that is twenty or thirty years ahead of anything the Europeans can field . . .
. . . A primary care military with conscripted [...]

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Socialized medicine is inevitable

June 30, 2007

So says Edwin Leap. Just please don’t tell me that health care will be free:
Even health-care in the purest idealized socialist system, in the most European, Marxist based, Castro-modeled, academic leftist dream-scape, won’t be free. Get this: health care can’t be free.
It can be free to the people who receive it, provided [...]

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Breast augmentation

June 30, 2007

The #1 cosmetic procedure. A plastic surgeon explains why:
It’s likely that the increasing number of women having breast augmentation is partially due to the strong economy (in everywhere but here in Michigan) and the fact that silicone gel implants were approved by the FDA in November. These implants are so superior to the saline [...]

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Newsflash: Office and ER visits surge

June 30, 2007

A sicker population, and a fee for service reimbursement system are driving factors. Want to solve the problem? Go back to capitati . . . oops, already tried that.

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Why physicians don’t adopt electronic medical records

June 29, 2007

Scott MacStravic clearly identifies the reasons.

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Infectious disease trading cards

June 29, 2007

I’ll trade my Avian Flu for your Hantavirus card. (via Women’s Health News and Medgadget)

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Physician salaries: Would the French model work here?

June 29, 2007

Physicians in France make about $55,000 per year. Can that be realistically applied here?
France reimburses its doctors at a far lower rate than U.S. physicians would accept. However, French doctors don’t have to pay back their crushing student loans because medical school is paid for by the state, and malpractice insurance premiums are a [...]

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Beware the dangers of universal health care

June 29, 2007

Yes, it sounds good. But, be careful what you wish for:
Furthermore, establishing a Health Insurance floor, as any UHC system must inevitably do, will encourage suppliers of Tier 1A care to edge toward Tier 3 care (since Tier 2 will be slowly disappearing.) Since Tier 1 and 1A effectively support the bulk of [...]

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