Celiac Disease and the “Worried Well”
My oldest daughter just got diagnosed with Celiac Disease. Maybe it really isn’t called that, but she had a strong reaction on the test. She was feeling sore in her joints and they decided to give her...
View ArticleMedicine: The Public-Health Model is Wrong
This Theodore Dalrymple post is a variation on a conventional argument whose unstated main premise is that medical cost decisions should be evaluated from a public-health perspective. The annual...
View ArticleMore evidence that Obamacare is just expanded Medicaid.
I have been saying that Obama care is just Medicaid for all. As time goes by, here is more and more evidence that this is the case. The latest evidence is in The Wall Street Journal and behind a pay...
View ArticleIt’s All About Control
The Manhattan Contrarian writes on Consensus Science And Orthodoxy Enforcement This is an old problem with the left, where everything – and I mean everything – is politicized and put into service to...
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The Doctor Shortage revisited.
I have previously written posts about a coming doctor shortage. They assume that primary care will be delivered by nurse practitioners and physician assistants. They are probably correct as we see...
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Why Importing Foreign Doctors May Not Solve the Shortage.
The coming doctor shortage that I have previously written about might be dealt with as Canada did with theirs some years ago, by importing foreign medical graduates. Britain has adopted a similar plan...
View ArticleSupermarket Parable
At the store they offer plain, vanilla and chocolate soy milk. Chocolate is the only flavor that’s any good IMO. Other customers seem to agree as chocolate is always in short supply and sometimes sold...
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Monitoring Air Quality – Speck Sensor
Due to the fact that computing power continues to increase exponentially, devices that once were out of reach for the general population are now becoming mainstream. I wrote about Netatmo, a device...
View ArticleHillary Clinton and Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis.
The episode of Hillary Clinton’s collapse at the 9/11 Memorial Sunday has raised some interesting questions. Several years ago, she had a series of neurological events. Getting a true picture of the...
View ArticleDoes Hillary Clinton Have Parkinson’s Disease?
The Hillary collpase last Sunday has prompted a lot of speculation on her condition. Early on I was inclined to blame her neurological condition on her history of concussion and cerebral vein...
View Article“Underground DSM-IV – Full Version”
An interesting and entertaining post from AVI: Related: “No one is listening to me,” means “no one is agreeing with me.” This has been remarkably durable over my career. The idea seems to be “If you...
View ArticleWorthwhile Reading
Simulating a microprocessor with techniques similar to those used in neuroscience raises some cautionary thoughts about conclusions being drawn in the later work. Don Sensing links his 2014 post:...
View ArticleWorthwhile Reading – Science and Technology Edition
It seems that octopuses have the ability to edit their RNA dynamically. An interesting piece on FDA regulation and medical device innovation. Zymergen has automated part of the drug discovery process...
View ArticleTriage vs Surge pricing
Sarah Hoyt’s site has an interesting article entitled The Free Market versus Death Panels. I recommend it in general but it misses one point that I think deserves some examination. There is one...
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The Coming Shortage of Doctors.
I’m sure everyone is tired of my pessimism about politics so I thought I would try something new. Here is a piece on pessimism about health care. This Brietbart article discusses the looming doctor...
View Article“The Medical History of the American Civil War”
Michael Kennedy’s blog series in six parts: The Medical History of the American Civil War The Medical History of the American Civil War II The Medical History of the American Civil War III The Medical...
View ArticleMelanoma and Pregnancy.
This is just a brief post to mention that that today’s Daily Mail has an article about a pregnant women with a spreading melanoma. In my book, linked on this site, I have a chapter on melanoma and...
View ArticleThe Doctor Shortage Update.
There is an interesting piece today in the Daily Mail about young NHS GPs quitting and going to Australia. In the past five years, the number of GP appointments made by Britons has risen from 300...
View ArticleCeliac Disease and the “Worried Well”
My oldest daughter just got diagnosed with Celiac Disease. Maybe it really isn’t called that, but she had a strong reaction on the test. She was feeling sore in her joints and they decided to give her...
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