The NHS Spends Millions on Placebos!?
February 22, 2010 in Health Care "Reform", Health Policy
The wit and wisdom that is socialist medical care funding.
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e-Prescribing is Here!
February 17, 2010 in Health Care "Reform", Health Policy
I sent my first e-Prescriptions yesterday. I sent them to a local pharmacy using my trusty PracticeFusion EMR and it was very good. E-Prescribing is important as this not only
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The “Star Trek” Method of Hand Washing
February 15, 2010 in Medicine
Sci-tech may finally replace soap and water.
Physician Politicians?
February 12, 2010 in Health Care "Reform"
Is the answer to corruption and runaway spending in Washington to elect more doctors to Congress?
Source of Spirituality Found
February 10, 2010 in Medicine
Obviously religion and spirituality are not the same thing (one can have a lot of one of these without much of the other). Prior studies have found that religious ideation
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Is Cocaine Really That Harmful?
February 9, 2010 in Health Policy, Medicine
In 1986, Maryland basketball player and NBA 2nd overall draft choice, Len Bias had a seizure and died from a single intranasal dose of cocaine. In 2010 one guy uses cocaine to “unwind” on the weekends and wonders if it really is that dangerous.
Phobia of the Day
February 8, 2010 in Medicine
And the phobia* of the day is: “Wrongcontextophobia“. The fear of sending a sensitive and personal text to the wrong contact on your smart phone (or in the wrong context).
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Vaccines: Victims of Poor Marketing
February 5, 2010 in Health Policy
Obviously vaccinations suffer from a battered public image these days. What is needed is a new advertising campaign.
Abstinence-only Education Works After Religion is Taken Out
February 2, 2010 in Health Policy, Medical Ethics
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?
The Diabolical Plan of Lawyers and Democrats to Keep Down Health Care Costs
February 1, 2010 in Health Care "Reform", Medical Legal
Trial lawyers and Democrats already know what happens to the practice patterns of physicians when their malpractice liability goes up. That’s why Washington has all but ignored national medical malpractice reform lately.
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