Healthcare
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Data Whores
I hate talking about healthcare, because I do it all day and because people really don’t understand what the hell I’m talking about. But it has to be talked about because it affects everybody’s health. Do you want your health improved? Well, we can begin with the healthcare medical record as conceived by the boobs…
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Making Mistakes
This is a letter to young physicians, but it could easily be a letter to anyone who is a young practitioner in any profession or any area of endeavor. You are going to make mistakes in your career. Moreover, you’re going to make mistakes that are unequivocally your fault that cannot be attributed to anyone…
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Our Future in Healthcare?
Anyone who thinks that centralized, socialized healthcare is a great thing only needs to turn on the television set and look to the United Kingdom with regard to their current healthcare problems. Anyone who thinks that centralized, socialized healthcare is a panacea that will solve our problems only needs to watch Prime Minister’s questions as…
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Bye Bye Miss American Pie
Our beautiful federal government has offered a sweet deal for rural hospitals. Are you ready for this? Shut down your inpatient services and we will give you a pile of cash. Patients living in the rural area who need inpatient services will be ferried, I presume by helicopter, to larger cities. The federal government’s rationale…
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Residency Letter
A little prologue might be necessary. Between 1980 and 1981, Jenny Jamison, an LVN, was alleged to have murdered children at Lion County Hospital in Pleasantville. She allegedly carried her spree to the nearby town of New Heidelberg where she worked in the pediatric office of Dr. Nancy Germany. Everything in this letter is…
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Minor Surgery
I love minor surgery. It’s so, so .. minor. Let me tell you what I was taught in medical school years ago: there is no such thing as a simple operation. Even the most simple of operations have complications. I’m going to give you my experience with extraction of wisdom teeth. This article is primarily…
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Evidence-Based Lies
As I’ve stated many times before, Harvard University is the enemy of our liberty and freedom. It is also a threat to any reasonable quality of life. Examples are boundless. Today I will talk about evidence-based medicine. Recently an article appeared in the British Medical Journal entitled: The Illusion of Evidence Based Medicine. In a…
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CalCare: DOA
Will CalCare work? Poorly. CalCare is Governor Gavin Newsome’s ambitious plan to cover healthcare for all Californians. Assuming it does pass, it will work poorly, escalate healthcare costs, and cause a further widening of the wealth gap between rich and poor. That it will do so is a mathematical certainty. It will do so because…
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Mother’s Medicine
My mother wants to tell you something. She wasn’t a doctor, but that shouldn’t matter. She should’ve been. She could’ve been. She could’ve taught those “fine” professors at the Mecca how to treat their students. Had she been in charge, the first thing she would’ve done was tell many of them to go away. Mom:…
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Gimmicks
Today I read that Republicans think that Afghanistan is equal to Benghazi times ten. What the news is trying to tell us is that Republicans think that they can use the Afghanistan withdrawal issue to gain enough political capital to win back the Presidency and the Senate. What’s the point? Why should anyone vote for…
Cowboy Archer 