Last November, my wife and I had to make a trip to the emergency room of a local hospital. I’d like to tell you about our experience there and what happened after they gave us a bill without delivering any service. This is exactly what happened to us as reported in yesterday’s (3/8/09) Watchdog column [...]

The following post was written by Dr. Stephen R. Smith, professor of family medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
One way to thank someone for giving you a gift is to say; “I’m obliged.” That’s exactly what drug companies want doctors to say for the gifts, large and small, that they bestow [...]

Two interesting articles caught my attention this week and I hope you’ll take the time to read them too. What’s the Right Decision appearing in the Fall edition of Cure magazine and written by Jeffrey Belora, director of Decision Services at University of California, San Francisco Breast Care Center and then in the 12/22 BusinessWeek [...]

I think we’re all beginning to figure out that to a large degree, We the People are going to have to fix some of this country’s problems ourselves. We’ve heard some great plans for fixing our broken healthcare system. Over the next few weeks, I’d like to offer up some ideas about what we each [...]