When I received the announcement that the first World Congress on Lung Health would be meeting in Florence, I decided that it would be more cost effective to visit my daughter in London en route to this conference, rather than attend the American Thoracic Society annual meeting in Toronto and make a separate trip to […]

WHO, CMA, Los Angeles County Medical Association and Sonoma County Medical Society. The World Health Organization has listed the best healthcare systems in the world. The USA ranks 37th out of 191 and France heads the list. I recall the time I was leaving Paris and a gentlemen with a bandaged eye lay on a […]

Received the following note from the Department of Health Services: Dear Dr Meyer: Medi-Cal’s Medical Case Management Program has been coordinating the medical services needed by your patient, xxxx since August 6. Effective October 28, Medi-Cal will no longer provide case management for the following reason: PATIENT EXPIRED. This decision does not affect your patient’s […]

It is commonly accepted that satisfaction of a job well done adds to our sense of well being. But just maintaining a job–any kind of job–can be difficult for a patient with mental illness. People that are mentally ill, e.g. Schizophrenia, have confused thinking and impaired social functioning. This obvious impairs insight in most jobs. […]

When I had my annual physical examination earlier this year, my doctor told me that I should lose 25 to 30 pounds. Having recently listened to an audiotape on the subject, I remembered that it takes 10-12 calories per pound to maintain one’s weight. I calculate that my current diet was about 2500 calories per […]

Patients have not comprehended their position in the managed care system as industrial products with no specialized problems. Dr Caroline Poplin, an internist and graduate of the Yale Law School points out that managed care is the industrialization of medicine. In her article “Transaction Social Science and Modern Society” she develops the premise that managed […]

Reports from the Society of Anesthesiologists, and Humboldt-Del Norte, Alameda, San Joaquin, Kern, and San Joaquin Counties. Stephen H Jackson, MD, editor of the California Society of Anesthesiologists Bulletin, commented on the passing of Charles Schulz. His kind-hearted stories and human commentaries ran in 2,600 newspapers in 75 countries, making him the most widely read […]

Dr Eugene Robin has been informing doctors and trying to protect the public about the dangers of the Swan Ganz catheter that intensive care specialists frequently insert into your right heart to obtain rather sophisticated information. Dr Robin, a world premier medical scientist, points out that this procedure has never been subjected to standard scientific […]

This month is the 224th anniversary of the most successful experiment ever –The United States of America. Harry Newton, editor of Technology Investor, now in its sixth month, states we are presently enjoying the longest peacetime boom ever. A higher percent of us are working. Unemployment is at its lowest in 30 years. Productivity is […]

On two tables of stone, DIETS & DYING found on Mt Ararat, a short distance from Sinai, the final word on nutrition and health were found. (We’re researching the validity of the finding.) The Japanese eat very little fat or red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans. The French eat […]