demonizing physicians

art of medicine/electronic medical records/health care reform/MACRA/overuse of technology/reducing health care costs

MACRA…An Open Letter to Andy Slavitt

Posted on November 21, 2016 1:50 pm by dhaugen / 0 Comment

I am not a physician, so have no credentials to be telling the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) how to run hospitals, much less physicians how t...

EOBs/health care reform/Medicaid/physician-patient relationship/reducing health care costs

North Dakota Medicaid and Erectile Dysfunction

Posted on June 10, 2016 8:10 pm by dhaugen / 0 Comment

There’s a lot of talk, much of it really nasty, about how physicians overcharge patients by providing numerous unneeded services to pad their bills. It...

health care reform/physician-patient relationship/simplistic solutions to complex problems/the sound-bite mindset

Posted on November 13, 2012 11:36 pm by dhaugen / 0 Comment

The disturbing tendency to try to blame all the problems in health care on physicians seems to be escalating, which shouldn’t be surprising considering th...