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The Great Myth: Why Health Care Reform is Failing both Patients and Medicare

A Novel Way to Present Health Information

Deception about Dementia: Why Early Detection can be Dangerous

Curing Medicare to be republished by Cornell University Press in 2016

Cancer screening: how conventional wisdom, quality indicators, and payment incentive equals poor ou

Rat Poison in the Nursing Home

PPI Use and Heart Attacks: Really?

The Real Value of Primary Care

The CDC and diseases of the elderly: Less factual than advertised

Baltimore Sun Op Ed Post

Anticipating & Planning for Long-Term Care Needs

Planning ahead for long-term care The majority of people recognize that aging brings with it the possibility of requiring extra help....

Does Tamiflu help if you have Influenza? The answer says a lot about our health care system.

See Episode 15 of Running Doc Unhinged, and a lecture on the topic, for more information about this blog. As a difficult flu season grips...

A new Video Podcast: Running Doc Unhinged. Subscribe Today!

The video podcast that I've been working on for many months is finally being RELEASED TODAY. I'd love for you to check it out and...

New Blood Pressure Guidelines: Good for Doctors, Bad for Patients.

Last week I went to sleep, and when I woke up an additional 30 million people had a diagnosis of hypertension, or high blood pressure. ...

A 105 year old doctor advocates a better path to improved health and wellness

In July of this year Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara died. His obituary was given to me recently by one of my patients, which is why I am writing...

Isn't it time we finally stop this nonsense and actually fix the system???

On Monday I participated in a Politico event in Washington DC called “The doctor-patient relationship.” The link to the event is here,...

Reforming Health Care by Putting Patients in Charge: Our Op-Ed in the Sun

As reformers attempt to fix our health care delivery system, they are dancing around what counts the most: the cost of health care. ...

Marginalizing Primary Care in the Hospital: My article in Medical Economics

When I recently spoke to a group of seniors about the dangers and risks of hospitalization in the elderly, one of the audience...

"We are losing the battle for the hearts and minds of our patients": The seeds of our hea

“We are losing the battle for the hearts and minds of our patients,” states Dr. Steve Nissen, a noted Cleveland Clinic cardiologist,...

Marching for better health care: The Science March, April 22nd, DC

Today I published an op-ed in the Baltimore Sun explaining why I am marching with the Right Care Alliance in the Science March this...

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