Nanny State and Nanny Employer

This election season has been saturated with backlash against "government takeover" of health care. Critique of the Patient Protec...

Health Care and the Campaign

A New York Times editorial on "Health Care and the Campaign" summarizes nicely the lies, distortions and disinformation about hea...

Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and Infertility

Polycystic ovarian syndrome is a common disorder causing androgen excess, ovulatory dysfunction and polycystic ovaries. PCOS can only be dia...

Octomom and the Physician-Patient Relationship

At a hearing in California to see if his license should be revoked, Dr. Michael Kamrava, the fertility specialist who implanted 12 embryos i...

High Risk Medical Insurance Federal Mandates

Comparison of State High Risk Medical Pools to the Federal Mandate for Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plans or PCIP's Recently I had t...

Medical Group Growth and Expansion

I recently met with a physician leader in a group that is expanding through merger with another group. He was interested in my direct experi...

Chilean Miners, Informed Consent, and Medical Ethics

I've never met Chris MacDonald, but I admire his superb Business Ethics Blog . Chris teaches philosophy and business ethics at Saint Mar...

The War Between QALYs and Death Panels

The current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine has an excellent "Perspective" piece by Peter Neumann and Milton Weinstei...

Psychoanalysis in China

A headline in yesterday's Washington Post caught my eye - " Freud coming into fashion in China ." Until I saw the article, I...

ACOs, Rationing, and Medical Ethics

Magic bullets come and go in the world of health policy, but the accountable care organization (ACO) is likely to be a durable reform. Excep...

Join Ingrid at the Perfect 10 Date Auction benefiting LBT Health

10-10-10 Perfect 10 Date Auction Funds to benefit LBT Health at YWCA We would like to invite you to you attend the upcoming second Perf...

General Practice Leadership in the NHS

A few days ago I wrote about the split in U.S. health policy between concepts of physician-led reform and market-driven/consumer-led reform...

Activist Patients, Cancer, and Medical Care

Two days ago I wrote about the polarized world of health policy, in which "physician-led reform" and "consumer-led reform...

Medical Homes, Patient Empowerment, or Both

There are two main beliefs in U.S. policy circles about how to improve health care quality and contain costs - strengthening the role of pri...