I admire bloggers who can come up with something to post each and every day. For all the time I have been posting to The Treating Physician, I seem needful of down time, time to rest, reflect, and let whatever chaos is out there take it’s course before once again slogging in to try to…
Medicine is not an exact science. There is a large component of art in the practice of medicine, but those who would control the practice of medicine would like you to believe differently. There’s an underlying assumption that if physicians simply followed rules better, the practice of medicine would become safer, cheaper, and better. This…
Jurist reports that the North Dakota House of Representatives passed SB 2368, the so-called “fetal pain” bill and it is expected that the governor will sign it. The emotions run high around the subject of abortion, especially in this very Red state of North Dakota. Abortion has become the sound bite of fractionalism, the sword…
I raised the issue in my first post quoting Justice William O. Douglas on religious freedom regarding the questionable actions of states which pay Seventh Day Adventists unemployment for refusing to work on Saturday, but do not offer the same opportunities to those who hold Sunday as their sabbath. Until I had to deal with…
I’ve written before on this blog about the propensity to blame physicians for the never-ending spiral of our health care costs. We talked about this in 1991 in “Big Business Medicine,” a chapter of Modern Medicine: What You’re Dying to Know. That was over 20 years ago now, but the game is the same,…
