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A lot of doctors favor tort reform — limiting patients’ right to sue — as a way to reduce the cost of malpractice insurance. There’s also a tendency to order unnecessary tests to cover themselves in the event they are … Continue reading
Category Archives: Health and healthcare
If you haven’t already seen this it’s reasonably amusing. Nick Offerman (best known for playing real man Ron Swanson on the sitcom Parks & Recreation) here portrays an opponent of efforts to get kids to eat better, contending that pizza, … Continue reading
Dr Aaron Carroll summarizes some three recent bits of medical news in the following video (which runs only about 4 1/2 minutes): Link: https://youtu.be/BEwE1RHHXFs Carroll, a pediatrician, notes that while a recent survey show some reduction in childhood exposure to violence, crime, and abuse, … Continue reading
Pediatrician, medical educator, researcher, and author Aaron Carroll MD — who somehow seems to have way more time than the rest of us — talks about simple nutrition guidelines for healthy people: Link: https://youtu.be/PhEwfaFLrd0 You can read his New York … Continue reading
It occasionally happens that a fringe groups, often religious, will confidently predict the end of the world, and when the deadline passes and The End does not come, they have to deal with it. Some admit they were wrong. Some … Continue reading
In most U.S. teaching hospitals, medical students, interns, and residents move up to the next level in July. The same thing happens in the United Kingdom in August. According to a May 12 article from Politico (link), this makes July … Continue reading
What’s commonly called “Obamacare” is also known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), but the full formal title is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a mouthful that makes it obvious why the shorter names are way more common … Continue reading
In case you didn’t already read this news back in early February, tests conducted by the state of New York found that very few herbal supplements they tested contained any at all of what they claimed to contain. This brief … Continue reading
My friend Bruce Arthurs has written a brief but interesting piece on his blog about the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) that I recommend. Here’s the link. Among other things, Bruce mentions a couple of instructive examples: someone who had … Continue reading
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, popularly known as “Obamacare,” was signed into law five years and one week ago. Here’s a compact seven-and-a-half-minute video clip assessing how well it’s working from prolific writer and commentator John Green, who incidentally buys his own … Continue reading