Reform violating Occam’s Razor is not reform.

The view through the medical practice windshield and over the hood ornament is a complicated one, and one which does not favor the independent medical practice.  Medical Practice Trends, an on-line journal, has a clever time line of the Health Care Reform Bill that needs to be up in every practice. 

Clearly, no one [...]

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Gastroenterologist and the Plummer

Yesterday while listening to the radio, a Gastroenterologist called in reflecting on a recent experience.  A patient of his had a large piece of food caught in his esophagus and the good doctor had agreed to meet him in the emergency room to address the problem.  He had to cancel some of his afternoon patients [...]

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One Physician – One "No Thanks"

So what do you expect?  A physician instructs his patients who have supported Obama’s health care plan to consider seeking care else ware, and who can blame him.

Last week there was an exceptionally poignant political cartoon that showed two forms of the census form, the original version with all the typical demographic questions, along [...]

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Doctor Fix isn’t Fixed

In November of last year the Washington Post wrote about a $300 billion deception we currently call the Doctor Fix.  A stay was put into place that postponed a 21% reduction in physician reimbursement, then slated to go into effect January 1 2010, and that stay ended March 31, 2010.

So lets march this out [...]

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Medical Practice and 20% of Income from Cash

In regard to portability and ease-of-use, competing with a pen and piece of paper is difficult.  We all know how a pen works, paper is lite and is easily moved about – there is no “down time” or “learning curve”; in addition, pharmaceutical and medical device companies will gladly give you all the pen’s you [...]

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