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Médecins Sans Frontiers Innovate Daily
Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontiers) (MSF) operate in more than 70 countries saving lives threatened by violence, disease, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care, and catastrophic events every single day. We’re also fighting for our patients’ rights to better care and access to affordable vaccines and drugs. Backed by independent donors, our more than […]
Physicians should not be a privileged community
Senator Mitch: Doesn’t it seem to you that there is wide-spread animosity towards physicians? Senator Chuck: No more than what they deserve. They are making a fortune off our poor and unfortunate. So why should we feel sorry for them? Senator Mitch: I would agree that they are a privileged community. But when you choose […]
Sham Peer Review Shelters a Deadly and Malicious Virus
The Poliner Case: the Clinical Story Disingenuous “concern for patients” is used to conceal malicious motives in a legalized charade Lawrence R. Poliner, M.D. Like a deadly virus sheltered within an immune cell, peer review has been infected. Ironically, some, who have sworn to “first do no harm,” now use peer review as a weapon […]
Automatic if Doctor and Patient are totally in charge
There are many forces dealing with controlling health care costs. All efforts have failed. In fact, most of these efforts have increased health care costs and also eliminated essential care. This has caused a decrease in the Quality of Care (QOC), the purported reason for policing doctors and hospitals. Controlling health care costs from the […]
Sham Peer Review
Editorial: Sham Peer Review: The Fifth Circuit Poliner Decision Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D. In a sham peer review hearing, the truth and the facts do not matter because the outcome is predetermined and the process is rigged. In a court of law, where hospitals and peer reviewers are granted absolute immunity, the truth and […]
Universal Child Health Care in Quebec
When ‘Universal’ Child Care Isn’t Universally High-Quality Quebec made up for shortages in its day-care system by letting private centers step in— and different families are getting very different experiences. Conor Williams Today, the U.S. is somewhat of an outlier among developed countries, which tend to offer more-substantial public support for paid parental leave and […]
Practice Fusion is agreeing to be sold to Allscripts
Christina Farr | @chrissyfarr Practice Fusion is scrapping free software model after agreeing to sell to Allscripts Practice Fusion is planning to start charging doctors to use its software, sources say. The change comes weeks after Practice Fusion agreed to a disappointing $100 million sale to Allscripts. Practice Fusion has struggled to build a growing business […]
Having health insurance is not the same as receiving health care
By Kenneth Lin, MD That is not original. I borrowed it from Los Angeles County Department of Health Services Director Mitchell Katz’s JAMA Internal Medicine editorial about problems with ensuring access to health care for Medicaid recipients whose cheap public insurance usually doesn’t even pay doctors enough to recoup costs of care, let alone earn a living.
Restoring Accountability in Medical Practice by Non-Participation in Government Programs and Understanding the Devastating Force of Government
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons The voice for private physicians since 1943. Join our 75-year tradition of protecting the patient-physician relationship. AAPS is the oldest organization that continues to defend freedom and ethics in medicine. Plan now to join us at our 75th Annual Meeting, October 3-6, 2018 in Indianapolis. On the legal front, […]
The October 2015 Issue
Featured Article: Single-Payer National Health Insurance around the World Part VIII In the News: The Changing Ideal Blood Pressure International Healthcare: Hospital’s Struggles Challenges China Health-Care Reform Economics of Government Directed Healthcare: The Essential: Ludwig von Mises Lean HealthCare: Practice Fusion Misdirection in Healthcare: Medicaid Expansion Increased Health Insurance Enrollment Overheard on Capitol Hill: Deferred […]