The Politics of Medicare, Part 2: What the candidates are saying.
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Given the spiraling and often unnecessary expenses with which Medicare must grapple, it is no surprise that this essential bastion of...
The Politics of Medicare, Part One: The Perils of Excess
With the Presidential elections upon us, I have written a 3-part series about the politics of Medicare. In Part One, we will talk about...
Dementia drugs and the folly of false promises: How doctor-prescribed placebo is destroying Medicar
An interesting and revealing incident occurred regarding one my patient’s medicines for dementia. I am not an advocate for using...
Using Visual Aids to help drive better care: How Erik's hospital stay could have been improved
As a corollary to Erik’s hospital experience as described in our JAMA article from July 2016, we will assess four medical interventions...
A Grateful but not Passive Patient: Our JAMA Article and How to Fix Medicare
Several days after we met in Baltimore to discuss and plan a video about our BRCT concept, Erik Rifkin did not feel well. Always...
Health Care’s Ominous Transformation under MIPS: An Orwellian twist to the push for Quality and Val
A year ago HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced that Medicare would be dramatically altering the way doctors are paid. She stated that...
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