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...
First the NIH Came for the Iranian Born Legal US Resident Scientists April 05, 2019 Transparency, honesty, and collaboration are necessary to do science, including biomedical and clinical science right. In the US, the Natio...
Despite Public Protestations of of Bipartisanship, Many CEOs of the Largest US Health Care Corporations Appear Partisan, and Mainly Republican March 28, 2019 Leaders of big health care organizations clearly are interested in influencing public policy and government regulation in ways that favor th...
Another Missing Link Discovered: 1969 IRS Rule Change Allowed US Hospitals to Discriminate Among Patients Based on Ability to Pay March 07, 2019 Prelude: the Suits in the Elevator Another long night on call of my interniship was over. Having managed to wolf down breakfast and brush m...
Mission-Hostile Hospital Management: Quieter, but Still Pernicious After All These Years December 09, 2018 Hospitals exist to take care of sick people, with the goal of making them better. Hospitals employ and work with health care professionals,...
Nonsense-Based Health Care - in the Service of Political Ideology and Sectarian Beliefs November 02, 2018 As an advocate for evidence-based medicine, I am used to disagreeing with officials at US government health agencies on the finer points of ...
Ill-informed, Mission-Hostile Health Care Leadership... in the White House and the US Department of Health and Human Services August 05, 2018 Introduction - What Has Gone Wrong with the Leadership of Health Care Organizations A major focus of Health Care Renewal has been problems i...
A Physician Who Had Run Clinics Which Proselytized Patients is Now a Government Health Care Leader Positioned to Enforce Her Religious Beliefs on Patients and Citizens Who Do Not Hold Such Beliefs July 15, 2018 Introduction: Physicians' Values and Organizational Missions Physicians professional values require them to put the interests of their i...
Why Did CVS Health Betray its Charitable Giving Policy and Social Responsibility Agenda to Donate to a Sketchy Non-Profit Devoted to Trump's Agenda? June 05, 2018 Many big health care organizations, including for-profit corporations, have high-minded mission statements, and proclaim their social respon...
Don't Know Much About Health Care and Public Health, and Don't Care Much About Their Missions - but in Leadership Positions in US Government Health Agencies April 27, 2018 Here we go again. As we We have frequently discussed how health care leadership is often ill-informed ( look here). More and more peopl...
Don't Know Much About Health Care and Public Health, and Don't Care Much About Their Missions - but in Leadership Positions in US Government Health Agencies April 27, 2018 Here we go again. As we We have frequently discussed how health care leadership is often ill-informed ( look here ). More and more pe...
The Case of the Brew Master's Plot - Was the Veterans Affairs Secretary's Travel Spending Scandalous, or Was He Framed in a Plot to Oust a Political Moderate? February 19, 2018 "Come, Watson, come! The brew is afoot." The Veterans Affairs Secretary's Apparently Scandalous Travel On February 14, 2018, t...
The Case of the Brew Master's Plot - Was the Veterans Affairs Secretary's Travel Spending Scandalous, or Was He Framed in a Plot to Oust a Political Moderate? February 19, 2018 "Come, Watson, come! The brew is afoot." The Veterans Affairs Secretary's Apparently Scandalous Travel On February 14, 2018, t...
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...
A $1.7 Million/ Year CEO of a Safety Net Hospital - Alleged to Have Hired a Dangerous Surgeon, Paid Unethical Bonuses, and Associated with Organized Crime June 29, 2017 We have long contended that a major reason for health care dysfunction is perverse incentives, including those that allow top health care le...
A $1.7 Million/ Year CEO of a Safety Net Hospital - Alleged to Have Hired a Dangerous Surgeon, Paid Unethical Bonuses, and Associated with Organized Crime June 29, 2017 We have long contended that a major reason for health care dysfunction is perverse incentives , including those that allow top health care l...
Trumping Up a Health Care Charity - Trump Organization Received Increasing Revenue from a Children's Cancer Care Charity June 07, 2017 While health and health care are clearly not central interests of the current US President, Donald J Trump, we have noted some disturbing st...
Trumping Up a Health Care Charity - Trump Organization Received Increasing Revenue from a Children's Cancer Care Charity June 07, 2017 While health and health care are clearly not central interests of the current US President, Donald J Trump , we have noted some disturbing s...