It is Time to Stifle Some Innovation

Stifling innovation is a very bad thing. As a society it is incumbent upon us to let innovation breath free, prosper and multiply, because i...

As Health Care Learns and Grows…

While grappling with the costs and imperfections of our health care system in recent years, a multitude of experts in the field found it use...

Translucency with Turbid Clouds

Did you ever read a seemingly inconsequential sentence somewhere and it then just refused to leave your mind for days on end, triggering ava...

Our Cheap and Productive Lives

So you think there is a war on doctors, don’t you? It certainly looks that way from your particular vantage point. The government is deftly ...

Brace Yourself for Transparency

It’s here. For the first time in 35 years (or 33 , depending on which click bait headline you clicked on), the much anticipated data on Med...

Health Care is Like Katz’s Deli

Sometime during the last year of the second millennium, I wrote my last letter in response to the last letter I have ever received. It’s bee...

Is the Nuremberg Code Obsolete?

Long ago and far away, at the conclusion of a worldwide armed conflict, the winning side was shaken to its moral core by the discovery that ...