August - 2017

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

Reforming Health Care by Putting Patients in Charge: Our Op-Ed in the Sun

As reformers attempt to fix our health care delivery system, they are dancing around what counts the most: the cost of health care. Pundits and “experts,” politicians and physician groups, devise convoluted schemes to expand insurance coverage while lowering premiums, without working to change our low-value health care delivery system. Our medical system squanders a trillion dollars a year by incentivizing wasteful spending for medicines, tests, and procedures that do not

Marginalizing Primary Care in the Hospital: My article in Medical Economics

When I recently spoke to a group of seniors about the dangers and risks of hospitalization in the elderly, one of the audience participants was justifiably confused. She assumed that as her primary care doctor for many years that I would be involved in her hospital care. I had to tell her that was not the case. In fact, in our local hospital, Howard County General Hospital, not only are primary care doctors excluded from caring for their patients, but even more alarming to