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implication of the article is that doctors don't follow their convictions because they're either morally lazy, afraid of retribution, or in cahoots with their colleagues to overlook each others' iniquities.
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Posted on December 4, 2007 11:08 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In case you're also wondering how an insurance company gets away with not paying the medical bills of its customers, here is their answer:
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Posted on November 12, 2007 1:55 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
It seems that health insurance companies in New York are trying to persuade their customers to go to doctors who have excelled at the little game entitled "Popularity Contest."
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Posted on October 25, 2007 7:07 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
If I wasn't such a sweetheart I would dial me up right now and give myself a tongue-lashing for daring to let a drug company pay for my
chèvre chaud sur toast et sa salade.
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Posted on September 10, 2007 3:22 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Two consulting groups hired by Ohio State have issued reports stating that a major expansion of the OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center (called "The James") may be delayed by "infighting" between leaders of the cancer hospital and the main medical center....
Posted on August 31, 2007 10:10 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The government's record on improving human behavior by fiat alone is less than superlative, which brings me back to the idea of public executions.
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Posted on August 20, 2007 5:21 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
It was the macros used by the E. R. doctors and nurses in their typewritten report that were stunning. They spilled over the pages, neatly stacked into parallel lines...
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Posted on August 5, 2007 4:53 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
560,000 Americans will die of cancer this year, more than the number of soldiers who died in World War I and World War II
combined. What will it take to find good souls willing to devote their lives to reducing this obscene number?
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Posted on March 13, 2007 8:12 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I don't agree with all of his ideas, such as citizens petitioning a "compensation fund" (run by government workers, I assume - yikes!) for reimbursement of medical expenses related to what Kling calls "tragic medical conditions."
Posted on February 12, 2007 12:46 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
