The Rural One-Doc Town
The rural healthcare landscape is tremendously varied. For the many physicians practicing in metropolitan areas, I suspect it is hard to imagine practici...
Category: simplistic solutions to complex problems
evidence-based medicine/patient-centered care/physician-patient relationship/separation of church and state/simplistic solutions to complex problems
Distrust of the System
The fear of vaccinations for children has been with the U.S. health care system for many years. Indeed, Michael C. Dorf reminds us: “Skepticism of orthodox medi...
art of medicine/big business medicine/evidence-based medicine/health care reform/simplistic solutions to complex problems/the sound-bite mindset
The Failure of “Pay for Performance”
In my previous post, I talked about the problems with using “evidence-based” medicine to constrain patient care and avoid dealing with the complexity of ...
art of medicine/big business medicine/electronic medical records/evidence-based medicine/health care reform/physician-patient relationship/simplistic solutions to complex problems
The Flaws in “Evidence-Based” Medicine
These days the moniker “evidence-based” has been attached to almost any statement about the practice of medicine and health care reform. Since a goodly number o...
A Gun in Every Pocket
I did not grow up with guns, never took a gun training course, and have no interest in tromping around looking for some deer or goose that I can shoot and eat. ...
