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When It Comes To The ICU, Less is Better

A recent New England Journal of Medicine article suggests perhaps less is better in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). This came from the June 6,

June 16, 2013 2 Comments

Is Cholesterol the Key to Understanding Alzheimer’s?

This article presents a brief analysis of the following study presented in the Journal of the American Medical Association: Variants in the ATP-Binding Cassette Transporter

April 22, 2013 No Comments

Africa Has The Lowest Incidence of Cancer in the World

Are we to believe that Africa truly as the least incidence of cancer in the world? Perhaps, but this is likely due to the

April 20, 2013 2 Comments

Is Health Insurance Worth It?

Current health insurance options don’t make sense for many Americans. Why pay high premiums for services that you don’t even use? Health insurance does make sense for

April 2, 2013 No Comments

How The Supreme Court Doomed PPACA To Failure

In this excerpt from Regulation: The Cato Review of Business and GovernmentThomas Lambert of the Cato Institute perfectly sums up why we have such expensive

March 26, 2013 No Comments

Internal Medicine News

This post is part of a segment called ‘What is Doctor Reading?’ where I aggregate interesting articles about medicine and provide a brief commentary. The following

March 24, 2013 3 Comments

Benefit of the Mediterranean Diet

Benefit of the Mediterranean Diet This is big news and again highlights my position that diet is very significant to overall health. Many of our

March 16, 2013 No Comments

ACO’s vs. HMO’s and the coming failure of ‘Accountable Care’

The ACO (Accountable Care Organization) concept is the already failed model of the HMO (Health Maintenance Organization)- same pig, different lipstick. If this gets sold

March 3, 2013 2 Comments

Up to 98,000 patients die each year in the hospital as a result of preventable medical errors

A recent report published in JAMA revealed some harrowing facts about the failure of our strained hospital system. Payment controls and other regulations are causing

January 30, 2013 No Comments