No Going Back

Too much of our thinking in health care is at least a half-dozen points-of-no-return ago. A forensic psychiatrist. A radiation physicist. ...

When The Doctor Has Pain

I'm now walking a second mile in another man's moccasins, and it's no more enjoyable than my first mile. Many doctors cringe w...

No Bureaucrat Left Behind, Redux

Just when you thought home care couldn't make any less sense. About a year and a half ago, I wrote a series of posts outlining...

Retail Therapy

The cliches of health care policymakers have entered a new kala of absurd. A lot of meaningless jargon is tossed around in hospitals and ...

Fiddling While Canada Berns

The mystifying infatuation with Bernie Sanders played out this past weekend in a spectacle bordering on farce. Canadians are no differe...

The Doctor's Daily Dram - 2017 Update!

No policy stuff this time, but doing a public service by providing critical knowledge for doctors nonetheless, especially to those MDs new t...

Agony, Anguish, And Armageddon, Part Ii

Is there any way to stave off a system-wide apocalypse? In my last post , I pointed out that for all the attention given to #taxfairness...