Kaiser Permanente redux

In 1933, Dr. Sidney Garfield was finding it difficult to make a living in fee-for-service medical practice. He hit upon the idea of prepaid ...

Doctor-Patient Sex

Doctor-patient sex is in the news again. Here's a report from the Texas Medical Board about an action it took against Dr. Kenneth Baird,...

Medical Students, Murder, and Ethics Education

On Tuesday night April 14 Julia Brisman, who offered erotic massage services on Craigslist, was murdered at the Back Bay Marriott Hotel in ...

Splitting Pills and Promoting Good Ethics

A recent article from Minnesota describes the pill-splitting program at HealthPartners , a 52 year old not-for-profit HMO serving 635,000 m...

Creating a Culture of Research

I recently came upon a terrific article - "Creating a Culture of Research" - that lays out a strategy aimed at making it easier t...

Medicare Open to All (2)

Two weeks ago, in a post about "Medicare Open to All," I argued that a while from some perspectives a public program could be see...

"Skin in the Game"

Here's a story that could be the basis for a class about the U.S. health care "system." My interlaced comments are in bold it...