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

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

A Novel Way to Present Health Information

A Novel Way to Present Health Information

Deception about Dementia: Why Early Detection can be Dangerous

Deception about Dementia: Why Early Detection can be Dangerous

Curing Medicare to be republished by Cornell University Press in 2016

Curing Medicare to be republished by Cornell University Press in 2016

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

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

Rat Poison in the Nursing Home

Rat Poison in the Nursing Home

PPI Use and Heart Attacks: Really?

PPI Use and Heart Attacks: Really?

The Real Value of Primary Care

The Real Value of Primary Care

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

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

Baltimore Sun Op Ed Post

Baltimore Sun Op Ed Post

Chronic Kidney Disease, Prilosec, and Fuzzy Math.

Chronic Kidney Disease, Prilosec, and Fuzzy Math.

This week the major media outlets published results of a JAMA Internal Medicine study linking proton pump inhibitor (PPI, medicines like...

Feel the Burnout: Medicare reform and increased burnout of physicians

Feel the Burnout: Medicare reform and increased burnout of physicians

Periodically in this blog we discuss physician burnout. A recent medscape survey showed a fairly significant increase in burnout among...

PSA: Medicare's poster child for a bad screening test (but what about all the other bad screeni

PSA: Medicare's poster child for a bad screening test (but what about all the other bad screeni

PSA has always been a poster child of cancer screening. On the one hand, it does prevent the spread of prostate cancer in some people...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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