At Children’s Hospital in Denver, three babies recently had successful heart transplants from neurologically damaged donors who were not brain dead. The donors were removed from the ventilator in the operating suite, and their hearts […]
If you want government funding, there are certain ideas that you dare not question, stated Donald W. Miller, M.D., University of Washington professor of surgery, a member of AAPS. Miller’s views are similar to those […]
On June 19, a physician caught in the act of performing a sex-selection abortion was arrested in a town near New Delhi and remanded into judicial custody for 14 days, along with the woman’s husband. […]
Patients are expressing alarm about anthropogenic climate change (“global warming”); the most prominent medical journals apparently accept it as fact; and the American Thoracic Society introduced a resolution to the 2008 AMA House of Delegates […]
Ostensibly, the vote was against pay cuts for doctors. But it was really about “creeping privatization of Medicare,” writes left-wing columnist Paul Krugman. Krugman blames Medicare deficits on the Medicare Modernization Act. Not Part D, […]
Florida Governor Charlie Crist got the legislature to approve—unanimously—innovative reform that could dramatically affect Florida’s number of uninsured, now running at 21% of the population, the fourth highest rate in the nation. The “Cover Florida” […]
Perhaps hearing the complaints about the remote locations for its initial town hall meetings, the Texas Medical Board has finally agreed to hold one in Texas’s largest city, Houston, and hold others in additional central […]
Not content with holding $32 billion in unclaimed property in trust while tapping the interest, some states are aggressively seizing property that isn’t really unclaimed and using it to balance their budgets. Carla Ruff of […]
Volume 64, No. 7 July 2008 EMR A NON-CONSENTED EXPERIMENT The biggest barrier to acceptance of the electronic medical or health record (EMR/EHR) is said to be physician resistance. Cost, of course, is one enormous […]
Politicians and others usually list the funding of prevention and chronic disease management programs as a key method of achieving cost containment. Smoking and obesity are most frequently mentioned as risk factors to target. In […]
