December - 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

Washington Times Op-ed: Finding a new way forward starting with primary care

This week I had an op-ed published in the Washington Times. In it I argued that sensible reform of our health care system requires more than the cosmetic changes currently being endorsed by the incoming administration and Congress. The three linchpins of successful medical reform are in fact issues that are never discussed: an increased focus on primary care, the ability of patients to be treated at home instead of in the hospital, and the facilitation of shared decision m

Republican Medicare Mess: Hospitals reveal an ugly truth, will Paul Ryan listen?

What are Paul Ryan and Tom Price going to do when they wake up one morning and their simple plan to repeal Obama care turns into a nightmare? Republicans have a major problem, and it all starts with their tendency to simplify and demonize programs that are much more nuanced than these politicians dare admit. Both men want to privatize parts of Medicare, somehow convincing themselves and their adherents that if a private insurance company offers the same coverage with the