What ED Crisis? (And Other Random Thoughts)
Shake that Money Maker They say there is a crisis in the Emergency Rooms and while I certainly see a little of its effects at my own program, the crisis is not universal. Some Emergency Departments...
View ArticlePutting Granny Down and Other Health Care Conundrums
(I hesitate to present this article because everything in it is so indisputable to those who work in health care that I might be accused of belaboring the obvious. With this in mind I ask for the...
View ArticleThrowing Money Away and other Medical Topics
(I confess, what with the feasting, shopping, caroling, and wassailing of the holidays I cannot collect my thoughts to write anything coherent longer than a couple of paragraphs. My apologies. -PB)...
View ArticleHow I Am Learning to Throw Money Away With Both Hands and a Big Shovel
Other People’s Money Medical care is expensive and to a large extent this is unavoidable. Medical knowledge has advanced considerably in even my lifetime and there are hundreds of new medical therapies...
View ArticleThe Non-Crisis in America’s Emergency Departments: The Death of Triage
Staying Power I suppose the only good thing about my patient’s twelve-hour wait in the Emergency Department waiting room before he even made it into a room, and his subsequent two-hour wait before he...
View ArticleOverdoctored
Rocking Your Fragile World-View Let us again consider Albania, a tiny country tucked into a little corner of Europe which is only now emerging out of the communist Dark Ages in which it had stagnated...
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