September - 2016

The Great Myth: Why Health Care Reform is Failing both Patients and Medicare

A Novel Way to Present Health Information

Deception about Dementia: Why Early Detection can be Dangerous

Curing Medicare to be republished by Cornell University Press in 2016

Cancer screening: how conventional wisdom, quality indicators, and payment incentive equals poor ou

Rat Poison in the Nursing Home

PPI Use and Heart Attacks: Really?

The Real Value of Primary Care

The CDC and diseases of the elderly: Less factual than advertised

Baltimore Sun Op Ed Post

The Politics of Medicare Part 3: An easy fix that no one wants to touch.

It is somewhat perplexing that as Medicare is draining our federal coffers, as we are spending almost a trillion dollars in wasted medical dollars, as we are enriching many doctors and institutions but are falling farther behind in health outcomes, as thoughtful and compassionate health care is being replaced by protocol driven doctors staring at computer screens, our political leaders and candidates are entirely ignoring the need for genuine medical reform. Yes, there are p

The Politics of Medicare, Part 2: What the candidates are saying.

Given the spiraling and often unnecessary expenses with which Medicare must grapple, it is no surprise that this essential bastion of health care delivery for the elderly is rapidly going bankrupt. Currently the average Medicare recipient takes far more out of the system than he/she has put in during his/her lifetime, meaning that there is a constant draining of funds. Also, the aging of our population is placing more people under Medicare’s auspices. Therefore, Congress