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...
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...
Making Abusive Contracts Great Again - Non-Disclosure Agreements, Which Have Bedeviled Employed Physicians, Go From Anechoic to Viral Courtesy Omarosa August 19, 2018 Introduction: Confidentiality Clauses, Non-Disclosure Agreements, Non-Disparagement Clauses In 2016, Dr Wally Smith and I published an artic...
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...
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...
"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...
"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...
You Cannot Worry About Health Care Reform When You Must Bow Down to a Tyrant September 26, 2016 We started Health Care Renewal to highlight major health care problems whose discussion had previously been nearly taboo , with the hopes th...