Strokes and Seizures
In our dysfunctional healthcare system, patient-centered care is often tossed around by PR types to pretend patients get the care they need when they need it. M...
Author: dhaugen
C-Section or VBAC?
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 ...
Upcoding is Not the Problem with Medicare Advantage Plans
Time to stop looking for any excuse to lower physician Medicare reimbursement. Medicine is the only profession where those without the required degrees to pract...
Reasonableness, Aristotle Style
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 ...
art of medicine/artificial intelligence/big business medicine/black box/evidence-based medicine/story space/the sound-bite mindset
Marmots* and “Evidence-Based” Medicine
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...
