The Eternally Valid Health Care Solution

I've solved the health care system, now and for all time. In an ever-changing world, it's getting harder and harder to keep up ...

The Sloth's Guide To Canadian Medicare

Who knew health care could be so straightforward? Costa Rica is one of the most amazing places you'll ever visit, with the happi...

Why Medicine Can't Be Managed

If twenty-odd years of administrative meddling should have taught us anything, it's that all the plans in the world for medicine and hea...

The Czar Of All Health Care, Part Ii

Talk can wait. The Czar has fires to put out. Last time , I argued that the festering problems in health care needed strong, old-schoo...

Legalize And Regulate Drugs, And Do It Today

Will we ever stop tackling this persoalan at the margins? I had another bread-and-butter Coroner's case a few weeks ago. Middle-aged m...

The Social (Housing) Call

How the other half lives, or just sorta gets by. I'm new to the job of Coroner. Though I'm sure it won't surprise anyone t...

Solving Healthcare Problems 101, Part I

As a promised follow up from my previous post , it's time for a smarter way to think about solving health care woes. I'd bet...

Patient Accountability...Really?

Exploring the latest buzzwords to permeate health care discussion. When I was a medical student and resident, the discussions about hea...

An Open Letter To The Next Minister Of Health

With the Trumpocalypse just about six months away, I thought I'd take a moment to give politicians some unsolicited but useful advice. ...

What Medicine Can't Fix

From the Public Health world, a discussion of how little anatomy, physiology, and pharmacology sometimes matter. ( This is adapted from ...