The New (Ab)normal in Health Care Dysfunction May 06, 2019 Introduction: The Issues Ignored by Discusisons of Health Care Reform After the failed attempt to "repeal and replace" the Afforda...
Why Are We Complicit? A Narrative for Our Era May 01, 2019 Why are seemingly good people complicit with bad things? In health care, we have seen seemingly good health care professionals and academic...
April, 2019, Update: How to Challenge Health Care Corruption Under a Corrupt Regime? April 28, 2019 In these last few weeks, the US news has been dominated by the release of a redacted verion of the Mueller report which included extensive e...
Return of the Anechoic Effect - Rest in Peace, Health Wonk Review January 18, 2019 Introduction: Blogging About Taboo Topics in Health Care We started Health Care Renewal in 2004 to discuss the causes of health care dysfunc...
The Mysteries Surrounding Rhodes Pharmaceuticals, the Sackler Family's Second Opioid Company January 08, 2019 Mysteries still abound in the not so wonderful world of health care dysfunction, so, quick, the game's afoot... Today's mysteries i...
The Perils of CEO Worship - What Happens When the Leader Becomes Demented? December 02, 2018 Introduction: the Cult of the CEO Although the US and most developed countries are nominally democratic, many of us seem to be again yearnin...
Update: How to Challenge Health Care Corruption Under a Corrupt Regime October 17, 2018 Summary: the Corruption of Health Care Leadership as a Major Cause of Health Care Dysfunction As we wrote in August, 2017, Transparency Inte...
Chipping Away at the Anechoic Effect: Now the New York Times Protests the Demise of the AHRQ National Guidelines Clearinghouse July 20, 2018 Background: the Quiet Announcement of the Death of the Clearinghouse On June 1, 2018, we wrote: Apparently as of late April, a terse announc...
Growing Health Care and Grand Governmental Corruption - But Still Anechoic After All These Years July 01, 2018 Here we go again. We have long been concerned about health care corruption as a major cause of health care dysfunction. Our last post on th...
Have They Finally Got to You? - the Firing of Dr Gu June 22, 2018 Introduction - Dr Gu's History of Activism Made Him Unpopular at Vanderbilt We first wrote in February, 2018, about the plight of Dr Eug...
The Stealth Shutdown of the US Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research (AHRQ) National Guideline Clearinghouse June 01, 2018 The Quiet Announcement of the Shut Down Apparently as of late April, a terse announcement appeared on the website of the US AHRQ National Gu...
Are You With Us, Dr Gu? - Vanderbilt Suspended Surgical Resident Allegedly Due to Patient's Mother's Compaints About His "Taking a Knee" on Social Media February 07, 2018 In the US, our political situation seems to be leading to new threats to free speech in academic medicine. Background: Dr Gu's Activism...
Are You With Us, Dr Gu? - Vanderbilt Suspended Surgical Resident Allegedly Due to Patient's Mother's Compaints About His "Taking a Knee" on Social Media February 07, 2018 In the US, our political situation seems to be leading to new threats to free speech in academic medicine. Background: Dr Gu's Activism...
Free Press? Don't Need No Stinkin' Free Press - Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Tries to Intimidate Modern Healthcare Journalist February 05, 2018 Remember the good ol' days, when most US challenges to free speech or the free press in health care came from aggrieved corporate or aca...
Free Press? Don't Need No Stinkin' Free Press - Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Tries to Intimidate Modern Healthcare Journalist February 05, 2018 Remember the good ol' days, when most US challenges to free speech or the free press in health care came from aggrieved corporate or ac...
How To Challenge Health Care Corruption Under a Corrupt Regime? January 14, 2018 Introduction: the Corruption of Health Care Leadership as a Major Cause of Health Care Dysfunction For a long time we have argued that healt...
How To Challenge Health Care Corruption Under a Corrupt Regime? January 14, 2018 Introduction: the Corruption of Health Care Leadership as a Major Cause of Health Care Dysfunction For a long time we have argued that healt...
In US, More than One-Third Think Government and Business Leaders are Corrupt, Media Shrug November 21, 2017 We have noted (most recently here), that health care corruption, particularly its global nature and its presence in developed countries l...
In US, More than One-Third Think Government and Business Leaders are Corrupt, Media Shrug November 21, 2017 We have noted (most recently here ), that health care corruption , particularly its global nature and its presence in developed countrie...
"The Censorship That It is" - Now Threatens US Government Health Agencies (DHHS, CMS, CDC) September 17, 2017 On Health Care Renewal we discus the dark side of health care, particularly of the leadership and governance of health care, that has enable...