The study of motivation in economic rewards models provides us a framework by which to look at how greed and the drive to maximize profit leads to more expensive and poorer quality health care.
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Repeated testing of physicians seems like a good idea. To bad that there is no proof that this makes any difference in the delivery or quality of patient care.
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Many stand on their soap boxes and proclaim that politics and patient care should not mix. But mix they do and the simple act of patient care does not strip the physician of their first amendment rights.
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Statistically speaking, we are winning the vaccine wars . .
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It’s like driving with your eyes closed for five seconds or more. This is the equivalent to driving while texting (reading or writing). It’s twice as likely to cause a crash as driving while intoxicated but as of 2010, only 19 states had laws that prohibited texting while driving for ALL drivers (not just...
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His response to being reported to the Texas Medical Board is just as unique as some of his medical treatments.
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The anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists cling tenaciously to a few studies of questionable quality and accuracy and serious credibility issues.
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Relatively new imaging techniques have found evidence of conscious awareness in a minority of traumatic injury patients diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state.
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Abstinence-only sex education has never been shown to work well. What if they just threw out all of that "no sex until marriage" stuff and instead, focused on the hazards of teenage sexual activity?
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There are a ton of misconceptions and outright falsehoods regarding doctors and substance abuse problems. This is not helped by media reports that make it seem as if physicians are abusing every substance "under the sun". There is not an army of crazy, addicted, physician zombies out there ready to eat your brains.
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