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Huge profits = no health care, a merged Vital Signs, a wrong direction for prescriptions
Losing Out at the Casinos Stephen Kamelgarn, MD, argues that “It’s Time for Casinos to Contribute,” in Editor’s Thoughts of The Bulletin of the Humboldt-Del Norte County Medical Society, August 2007. “It is increasingly expensive to provide health benefits for one’s employees, and in today’s business climate of decreasing profit margins this can be the difference between […]
A “medical” marijuana problem, ER’s growing caseload, on the sidelines of a Great Game
My Neighbors the Potheads Emily Dalton, MD, writes on “Medical Marijuana” in The Bulletin of the Humboldt-Del Norte Country Medical Society, July 2007. “My neighborhood is going to pot. Literally. There is a house on our block that has little or no traffic. The window shades remain down all the time. No one comes, no one […]
A complication of volleyball, when religion meets medicine, the draw of surgery centers
Broken Nose, Big Problem David Goldschmid, MD, the President of the San Mateo County Medical Society, writes about “When Doing The Right Thing Seems Wrong” in the society’s April Bulletin. “It is not always easy to do the right thing. Sometimes we know what the right thing is, but either choose not to do it or […]
Not-so-humble physicians, thoughts of a 1,999-year-old, and problems in the ER
Vanity, thy Name is… MD? The Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin has published “The Seven Deadly Sins.” This is from one of them, called “Vanity Fair.” by Peter Klass, MD. It appeared in the California Society of Anesthesiologists’ CSA Bulletin , Winter 2007. See www.csahq.org/pdf/bulletin/issue_15/Klass_064.pdf for the entire article. “Tell physicians you’re writing an essay about doctors and pride, and they immediately […]
A new tack on Medicare payment, electronic prescribing errors, a dim view of transparency
Medicare’s New Direction Stephen Kamelgarn, MD, discusses “Medicare Pay for Performance” in the January issue of The Bulletin of the Humboldt-Del Norte County Medical Society “Medicare, the 800 lb. gorilla, is about to strike out in new directions. As recently reported in the New York Times, the 109th Congress, in a last minute flurry of legislation, approved a […]
The impact of prayer on recovery, and deciding whether to stay with Medicare
Proof and Prayer Emily Dalton, MD, discusses “Science and Intercessory Prayer” in the November 2006 issues of The Bulletin, published monthly by the Humboldt-Del Norte County Medical Society. ‘Intercessory Prayer Ineffective!’ touted the headlines in the medical periodicals when a major study on intercessory prayer and recovery from cardiac surgery was published in the American Heart […]