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 ...
Category: health care reform
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...
absolutes/art of medicine/artificial intelligence/black box/health care reform/Herbert A. Simon/Hubert Dreyfuss/neural networks/Siddhartha Mukherjee MD
Neural Networks and the Black Box
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 rep...
NPs and “Full Practice Authority”
WARNING: I have been through one nurse practitioner (NP) firestorm on Facebook about the ideas presented in this post. However, Facebook fails to provide a good...
art of medicine/evidence-based medicine/health care reform/overuse of technology/physician-patient relationship/risk
On Michel Accad’s MOVING MOUNTAINS
Moving Mountains: A Socratic Challenge to the Theory and Practice of Population Medicine. Michel Accad, M.D. College Station, Texas: Green Publishing House, LLC...
