Dr. Jen Gunter’s comment noting the irony of North Dakota’s stance on abortion and smoking is well taken. I have never seen the amount of smoking in a general population that I see every day in North Dakota. Especially among young people. There were physicians at the legislative hearings regarding the abortion legislation, and according…
Les Leopold’s “Why Is Socialism Doing So Darn Well in Deep-Red North Dakota?” ponders why a state which just passed such restrictive women’s rights legislation would be “socialist” enough to have a state bank—the only state in the union to have such an entity. How did this come to pass? Leopold rightly credits the…
In Modern Medicine, we called the nursing shortage Myth #3 in the suggested list of reasons for the rapidly increasing costs of health care. David Williams discusses some of the reason for this misunderstanding in his article “The nursing shortage: Why it isn’t a good time to become a nurse” on KevinMD.com. A good bit…
In this crazy world of health care costs where those in CEO seats think health care should be run like the manufacturing industry, it’s rare to find someone who can see the emperor has no clothes. In her blog post “A Robotic Hysterectomy is More Expensive, But is it Better?” Dr. Jen Gunter reports on…
Whenever the media decides to hype Medicare fraud without really investigating what checklist mentalities construe as fraud, readers should at the same time think about why any physician would put up with these blatant attempts to deny them payment for the care they provide. Physicians spend many years in training, more than most professionals. Veterinarians…
