Friday to Friday Beer Sale: Evil Twin Brewing

Castro only beer sale featuring Evil Twin Brewing Company. Starting tonight 01/30/15 until next Friday 02/06/15 we will have Evil Twin Brewi...

Read More

New Arrivals: Almanac, Cascade, Omnipollo, Evil Twin, Stone, Ninkasi and more...

Good gawd! We have tons of new beer this week. More than we can list in this very post.  So, stop what you are doing and come down to the sh...

Read More

Time to "Look for the Union Label?" - "First US Doctors' Strike in Decades," at University of California Student Health

The First US Doctors' Strike in Decades A few news media outlets in California have reported on what has been up to now a very rare even...

Read More

CMS: Millions of patients across the nation are benefiting from the - um - potential - of Health IT?

I presume this is, in part, a response to the Jan. 21 letter from AMA and the other medical societies as I wrote about two days ago at http:...

Read More

None Dare Call It Health Care Corruption

... even when allegedly a prominent academic physician's traded referrals of cancer patients to a law firm, resulting in referral fees t...

Read More

"Meaningful Use" not so meaningful: Multiple medical specialty societies now go on record about hazards of EHR misdirection, mismanagement and sloppy hospital computing

The "Meaningful Use" program for EHRs is a mismanaged boondoggle causing critical issues of patient safety, EHR usability, etc. to...

Read More

New Arrivals: Pretty Things, Grimm, Prairie and 18th Street

Hoppy Saturday! Lots of new beer in the house this week. Here's a brief list of beers we just got in. Pretty Things - Our Finest Regards...

Read More

Friday to Friday Beer Sale: Ale Smith Brewing Company

Castro only beer sale featuring Ale Smith Brewing Company of San Diego, California. Starting tonight 01/24/15 until next Friday 01/30/15 we ...

Read More

Logical Fallacies in Defense of Aggresive Screening for and Treatment of Hepatitis C

And the hepatitis C follies continue... As we have frequently written, most recently last week , the hepatitis C screening and treatment ba...

Read More

Making the Arc of the Moral Universe Bend

On this day, the US celebrates the legacy of the Rev Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr once famously addressed the question of h...

Read More

Friday to Friday Beer Sale: Midnight Sun Brewing

Castro only beer sale featuring Midnight Sun Brewing Company of Anchorage, Alaska. Starting tonight 01/16/15 until next Friday 01/23/15 we w...

Read More

New Arrivals: Firestone Walker, Clown Shoes, Deschutes, Saint Archer, Bear Republic and more...

New beers are here. If you follow this blog, you know that we probably sound like broken records at this point with the whole "new arri...

Read More

The Fashion Challenges of the Emperor of Hepatitis C Treatment - Now in the BMJ, but Who Will Notice?

As we wrote, most recently last week, the hepatitis C screening and treatment bandwagon keeps rolling along.  There is constant public argu...

Read More

The March of Legal Settlements Continues into 2015 - Daiichi Sankyo Settles Charges of Kickbacks to Doctors for $39 Million

We are just into January and have our first legal settlement by a major health care corporation of charges of giving physicians kickbacks t...

Read More