Saturday, August 13, 2016

When will the Medical Bureaucracy learn that Performance Metrics in Healthcare can be Lethal?

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Yet another scandal regarding performance incentives in healthcare has surfaced.  This time, the area is transplant medicine .  It was repo...
Sunday, June 19, 2016

Questions to ask When Picking a Medical School if You Want to be a Good Doctor

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I graduated medical school this May from the Keck School of Medicine of USC.  And only now can I speak about what I should have cared about...

Is the FDA's "Ban" on Gay Men Donating their Blood Discriminatory?

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In the wake of the horrific Orlando shootings , there has been renewed attention given to the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) s...
Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Trump's 7 point healthcare plan is actually just as stupid as everything else he says

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Donald Trump's healthcare plan has started to make the rounds.  People are impressed!  It seems simple.  It seems to make sense.  It g...
Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Politics and Medicine: Hillary Clinton's Health Risks

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This presidential campaign has been alternately amusing and terrifying, courtesy of the antics of Donald Trump.  The prospect of someone wh...
Thursday, March 17, 2016

Penile Discharge Deja Vu

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Yesterday was groundhog day- About 2 months ago, I was volunteering at one of USC's free student-run clinics, located in a homeless s...
Saturday, January 2, 2016

Residency Work-Hour Restrictions Ought to be Individualized

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There's been a bit of kerfuffle over resident duty hours lately. For those unfamiliar with the topic, physicians in training in the U...