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PalMD is a practicing internist in the Great Lakes region of the U.S.. Aside from the great joy he finds in his family and his work, he likes communicating some of that joy to others. He has a special interest in the ways patients---and we are all patients at one time or another---are deceived by charlatans. He aims to change the world, one reader at a time. Previous writings can still be found here, and here. I also write twice a month for Science-Based Medicine
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July 30, 2009
Category: Health care reform
You can count on the Wall Street Journal for pretty good reporting and for extremist right-wing wackaloonery on the OpEd page. Today, they deliver the latter, with bonus fear-mongering at no extra charge. The piece is entitled, "GovermentCare's Assault on...
Posted by PalMD at 1:41 PM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Health care reform
OK, in parts I and II we talked about health care problems specific to patients and to medical science. Now, on to the providers themselves. Before you start whining about how doctors need to suck it up, remember that you...
Posted by PalMD at 11:39 AM • 28 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Medicine
I've been a terrible netizen. I haven't been keeping up with my blog carnivals, especially my favorite, the Skeptics' Circle. Well, it's up now at Beyond the Short Coat. Go and read!...
Posted by PalMD at 10:55 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 29, 2009
Category: Health care reform
In part I, I presented you wish some admittedly artificial categories of problems in our health care system. First we discussed patient-centered problems. Today, we'll look at problems posed by medical science and practice itself. Medical science The science of...
Posted by PalMD at 11:46 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 28, 2009
Category: Health care reform
Yes, I know, the two are not mutually exclusive, but I still think it's a good title. The latest bit of evil idiocy? More fanning of fears about health care reform. Don't misunderstand, there's plenty of potential pitfalls to health...
Posted by PalMD at 3:05 PM • 64 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Health care reform
I know only one certainty regarding health care reform in the US: I won't be a significant policy maker. And neither, likely, will you. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't educate ourselves, try to understand the problems and potential solutions,...
Posted by PalMD at 2:03 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 27, 2009
Category: Absurd medical claims
You see, when you criticize someone for being wrong, that's one thing, but when you imply that they are wrong because their entire world-view is incorrect, well, sometimes you get a response.
Posted by PalMD at 12:51 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 26, 2009
Category: Medicine
Lawmakers and the public in general have no idea how the business and practice of medicine operates. None. When you read statements from many representatives, you see such simplistic, anhistoric thinking that pessimism about health care reform is the only...
Posted by PalMD at 8:19 AM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 25, 2009
Category: Narcissistic self-involvement
Desire is a great friggin' album, and this is one of the better songs, but I never knew about this cover. A shout out to my buddy, whose musical tastes might run in another direction....
Posted by PalMD at 11:06 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 23, 2009
Category: Absurd medical claims
Alternative medicine practitioners love to coin magic words, but really, how can you blame them? Real medicine has a Clarkeian quality to it*; it's so successful, it seems like magic. But real doctors know that there is nothing magic about...
Posted by PalMD at 3:27 PM • 32 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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