For anyone still laboring under the myth that insurance carriers are motivated to hold down costs in healthcare OR that health insurance is expensive BECAUSE health-care is expensive OR that insurance helps PROTECT us from high billed charges, consider the …
Category: Quality
Scientists rise up against statistical significance
Our call to retire statistical significance and to use confidence intervals as compatibility intervals is not a panacea. Although it will eliminate many bad practices, it could well introduce new ones. Thus, monitoring the literature for statistical abuses should be …
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Female Genital Mutilation: Why Are Doctors Silent?
“…we have seen a trend moving it away from villages and homes, where it has usually been done, and into hospitals, clinics, and private offices. The location change has ushered in a vocational change. Health professionals—doctors and nurses—are now frequently …
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No Free Lunch…Except in Pharma – PBGH
Great article by Pittsburgh Business Group on Health that explains the PBM rebate scam. “The Problem… Above board discounts and rebates would not cause problems. Let’s say your friend had a coupon for $10 off when you bought two entrees. …
Lies That Won’t Die: Health Insurance Costs and Healthcare – Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
In the department of economy, an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its …
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Round Up & Donate…when you Lyft
Sit for something with me and support St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital with Round Up & Donate from Lyft: https://lyft.com/round-up?c=BOB83129
Sometimes You Just Gotta Treat It | A Country Doctor Writes:
Notes from a doctor with a laptop, a house call bag and a fountain pen I thought to myself about how often specialists are in a position where they can simply declare “Not my department”, but primary care docs are …
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