Shawn Whatley is past-president of the Ontario Medical Association. He has worked in emergency medicine, as a coroner, in a vein clinic, and as a surgical assistant. He also held a leadership role at a large suburban hospital. He …
Category: Doctor shortage
Save Us From The Health Care Reformers: They’re The Problem, Not The Solution
Dr. Goodman’s article is a fantastic foray into the dark history organized medicine, culminating with a brutally honest assessment of the cartel that resulted. He gives a great preview of the good stuff in Greg Scandlen’s new book, Myth Busters: Why Health …
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A Primary Care Panel Size of 2500 Is neither Accurate nor Reasonable
Primary care panel sizes are an important component of primary care practices. Determining the appropriate panel size has implications for patient access, physician workload, and care comprehensiveness and will have an impact on quality of care. An often quoted standard …
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Debunking Media-Supported Myths about DPC: A Conversation with Dr. Brian Forrest — Hint Health
As a seasoned advocate and DPC practitioner, Dr. Brian Forrest knows all to well the problems that misinformation can create for a movement built almost entirely on word of mouth. In the second installment of our ongoing series, Dr. Forrest …
Physician Shortage: An Alternative View by the Numbers | Robert Nelson, MD | LinkedIn
For the sake of brevity, I am not going to show my math. Trust me, I’m a doctor! Here are the average panel sizes based on the assumptions above using 2012 census data. FP/GP = 1,041 patients per doc IM/IM-Peds …
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Medicine Is About to Get Personal | TIME
The idea is deceptively simple: Pay frontline doctors a fixed monthly fee directly instead of through the byzantine insurance bureaucracy. Make the patient, rather than the paperwork, the focus of the doctor’s day. The result will be happier doctors, healthier …
How Government Regulations Made Healthcare So Expensive | Blog | Mises Institute
DECEMBER 17, 2013 Mark Thornton “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” declared philosopher George Santayana. The U.S. “health care cost crisis” didn’t start until 1965. The government increased demand with the passage of Medicare and Medicaid …
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How Government Killed the Medical Profession | Cato Institute
Command and Control Coding was one of the earliest manifestations of the cancer consuming the medical profession, but the disease is much more broad-based and systemic. The root of the problem is that patients are not payers. Through myriad tax …
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