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An Inside Look at Health Care for the Elderly and Medicare

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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

The Politics of Medicare, Part One: The Perils of Excess

The Politics of Medicare, Part One: The Perils of Excess

With the Presidential elections upon us, I have written a 3-part series about the politics of Medicare. In Part One, we will talk about...

Dementia drugs and the folly of false promises: How doctor-prescribed placebo is destroying Medicar

Dementia drugs and the folly of false promises: How doctor-prescribed placebo is destroying Medicar

An interesting and revealing incident occurred regarding one my patient’s medicines for dementia. I am not an advocate for using...

Using Visual Aids to help drive better care: How Erik's hospital stay could have been improved

Using Visual Aids to help drive better care: How Erik's hospital stay could have been improved

As a corollary to Erik’s hospital experience as described in our JAMA article from July 2016, we will assess four medical interventions...

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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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