Checklist Health Can your health be reduced to a bunch of numbers? American medical care is about to test that idea. Beware the results. Checklists – and the checked off numbers – do not a healthy population make. Why Are Checklists Taking Over? People love numbers. They like to count things. Medical care costs enormous […]
Is Sleep Apnea Boring? (2/3/14)
Clinical Fascination Boredom can prove very personal. A few weeks ago I sat down in the hospital cafeteria. At my table was a polite, bright pulmonologist. He expressed sympathy for my work: “I find sleep apnea so boring.” For a doctor like him there’s isn’t much to do with sleep apnea. Somebody comes in. They […]
Dr. Medicine Explains Health Care For You (8/30/12)
Meet Dr. Medicine Today marks our first interview with general internist Dr. Medicine, America’s true health care representative – TV interviewer Lolly Partridge: Thanks so much for coming to Superior TV! We’re so, so happy to have the famous Dr. Medicine. Dr. Medicine: Thanks, Lolly. Traffic was murderous, and this show does keep me from […]
What to do when medical care goes away (8/8/11)
The Real Deficit Feeling a bit blue? Less than excited by a Federal budget “deal” that postpones real negotiations for the mere $14 trillion dollar deficit while markets tumble? Sorry, but that’s not the real problem. The debt hole is much bigger. You get different answers from different places, but the statistics should boggle […]
The Spanish Siesta Champion Wins, but the Siesta and Naps Lose (10/25/10)
And the Winner Is… The competitors came to the middle of Madrid’s Islazul shopping center ready to lie down and compete. There were 360 who came to demonstrate to the judges their flair for imaginative bedclothes, weird resting positions, capacity to fall instantly asleep and overall “quality” of snoring, but only one returned a winner. […]