Errors and Fallacies in Healthcare Productivity Measurements

Are you a Physical Therapist, Occupational Therapist or Speech and Language Pathologist who is measured by your productivity? What if you were to discover that the means by which that productivity was calculated was wrong, and moreover, always understated? Read on, you’ll be surprised and perhaps more than a little angry. [...]

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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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Ben Nelson Gets His Price

From the perspective of a representative “playing their position” and looking out for their own constituents, Ben Nelson has done a wonderful job.  As for the rest of the US, we’re asked to pick up the entire Medicaid bill for an entire state, for eternity.  How wonderful is that?

What this means is that Nebraska [...]

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Commentariolus Medicus

As legend has it, while being arrested for his believes (based upon evidence) that the Sun, rather than the Earth, was the center of the universe; Nicholas Copernicus said of his captors:  “I cannot admire enough those who accepted the heliocentric (earth as the center of the universe) doctrine despite the evidence of their senses.” [...]

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Free Market Medicine – You’ll Like What You See.

Imagine that you do the same job year over year, and in each year you get paid less.  This is the condition in which most physicians find themselves.  It may be difficult for some to have sympathy  for physicians because many believe that they make lots of money, though some do.  Still, physicians spent most of their 20′s and some [...]

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