Don’t Break the Medical Device Industry.

Imagine receiving a surgically implanted artificial joint that according to current estimates will likely last you ten to fifteen years.  Consider the the fear of having to have surgery, and the pain and discomfort of post surgical rehabilitation, and the prospects that it will take 6 to 12 weeks to fully recover.  Now consider this: [...]

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American Health Care, A Competitive Disadvantage? Not!

The argument goes that the American healthcare system and it’s costs impose a productivity impediment on American businesses.  As comforting as this might be for those who enjoy the novelty of messing with things, especially when they are immune from their consequences, it’s not true.

John R. Graham of the Pacific Research Institute has put [...]

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Want to start a company?

How about starting a company with the following constraints: you don’t have a product to sell but you know people who do, you don’t like competition, and particularly don’t like selling, so you want your product to be required.  You don’t want the hassle of dealing with share holders, or quarterly reports or demanding customers, [...]

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Physicians lose $2.00 to $18.00 per Medicaid Flu Shot

A quick read of an article in USA Today about Medicaid physician compensation for pediatric flu shots would likely lead you to quickly presume that reimbursement should be higher if we want more children being vaccinated.  However, this only works if one buys the notion that either a child goes to a physician for a [...]

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The Future of Nursing

Exceptionally interesting publication on the Future of Nursing which is likely to begin a long conversation on the future makeup of practicing medicine.

This is certainly not a short discussion, healthcare is complicated where seemingly subtle problems can be life threatening.  Medicine has done an outstanding job in improving the quality of education of its practitioners, [...]

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