Dr. Lindemann’s latest Substack article provides some history on C-sections and why the C-section rate has increased from 10 percent to 30 percent in the past 10 to 15 years. The days of “Once a C-section always a C-section” are over. Vaginal Birth After C-Sections (VBACs) offer less risk than the major surgery of C-sections.
Time to stop looking for any excuse to lower physician Medicare reimbursement. Medicine is the only profession where those without the required degrees to practice determine reimbursement for care.
I have spent a lot of time contemplating what has turned our culture from one in which topics could be discussed, acknowledgment could be made for parts of the opposing arguments which had merit, and indeed that people could blend notions from both sides and come up with something they could agree on, or at…
While I understand the reasoning behind evidence-based medicine (EBM), common sense tells us that no rules are going to correctly fit a situation 100 percent of the time. We are all different. More importantly, the reduction of medical decision-making to a set of research-based findings destroys the real value of medicine, the story space between…
The excitement over deep learning and neural networks is well deserved, but the notion that artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of “deep learning” will replace the need for physician expertise is, I would suggest, a bit premature. Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., in “A.I. Versus M.D.” does an excellent job of illustrating the differences between man…
