The same liberal egalitarianism irrationality that sunk the long term care plan (CLASS act) is ultimately going to sink Medicare.
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Medicine
One Fewer Pediatrician
The current health care system is doing a good job of driving away primary care providers by fixing it so that the harder they work, the less they make.
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Why Pay-For-Performance in Medical Practice Won’t Work
In fact, it's likely to make things worse.
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How Greed Makes for Bad Doctors
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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The Dangers of Anti-Acid Therapy
There have been concerns about long term acid suppressive therapy. But until recently there has not been much hard data on the risks. That has now changed.
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Did the Smallpox Vaccine Slow the Spread of HIV?
This is the opposite of the anti-MMR vaccine crowd. Not the least of which is because it is plausible.
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The Future of Primary Care Compensation?
Paying primary care physicians per patient visit and per office service is really, basically, very stupid.
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Sex Sells CPR
Best CPR training video evar.
Teaches CPR (kind of) in a way you won't forget.
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Even Patients are Marginalizing Primary Care
Patients take their cues from the current system where primary care providers are seen as little more than purposeless "gatekeepers".
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Shaken But Not Spermed
A new method to shake the little bastards to death.
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Nurse Practitioners and the “Art of Medicine”
Do nurse practitioners have the training and experience to understand and apply the "art" of medicine in their practices?
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