A patient who was in today happened to ask if/how Obamacare was affecting my practice.  Truth is it has had little impact on my day-to-day practice aside from a noticeable increase in bureaucratic hurdles & paperwork, as long as you don't count the headaches and hassles of adopting an EHR.  So far.  But it will starting in 2014.  Part of the plan to 'slow-boil the frog' (that's not a reference to Frogboy). However, he related that it has already had a d...

It surprises me considerably that there is so little interest here in the health care bill debacle that BO wants to ram down our throats before we can know all that's in it.  What little we know is scary enough. He counsels patience on everything that isn't going as planned but somehow passing Obamacare is a dire emergency that must be passed immediately - 'healthcare reform' is the only thing that will keep us from bankruptcy (so he claims).  His incessant 'sky is falling' shtic...

I was incensed listening to Michael Savage's radio show last night.  I catch portions of it a couple of nights a week while in my car, occasionally listen for an hour or two depending on the subject matter and find him interesting and entertaining even when I disagree with his point of view.  Most of the time.  What I heard last night, however, motivated me to write an email to Dr. Savage.  Then I couldn't locate an email address to which to send it - there was no email link ...

I'm not a particular fan of the American Medical Association.  In my view, it is too enmeshed with currying favor with the federal government (also known as partnering) to be an effective advocate for either patients or physicians.  But occasionally the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) publishes some worthwhile reading.  The latest issue has a commentary about the collision of scientific principles with interest-group advocacy politics and an editorial about ...