Ririn 12.32 Add Comment Edit Did You Ever Notice? To quote the late 60 Minutes curmudgeon Andy Rooney, "did you ever notice" how documentary movies--we could extend this to all so... Read More
Ririn 19.14 Add Comment Edit Friday to Friday Beer Sale with Cismontane Healthy Spirits Beer Sale featuring Cismontane Brewing Company. Starting tonight 02/27/15 until next Friday 03/06/15 we will have all Cismon... Read More
Ririn 18.43 Add Comment Edit New Arrivals: Stillwater, Victory, Anchor, Hof ten Dormaal and more... Here's to beer! And lots of it. All sorts of goodies made their way to our stores this week. Here's a partial list of new arrivals a... Read More
Ririn 11.09 Add Comment clinical trials, conflicts of interest, deception, evidence-based medicine, FDA, marketing, Shire, stealth marketing Edit Promoting Amphetamines for Over-Eating - What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Every day seems to bring the latest breathlessly touted innovation in modern health care. The endless hawking of new health care wonders is... Read More
Ririn 08.45 Add Comment corporate physician, health care corruption, Kindred Health, mission-hostile management, Select Medical Edit Timing Discharges to Maximize Revenue - "Corruption" of Corporate Long-Term Hospitals? A recent Wall Street Journal article that focused on a quirk in US Medicare payment rules that may be gamed by long-term hospitals also rev... Read More
Ririn 16.48 Add Comment Edit The sun is shining, the birds are chirping and it's the weekend. Ain't life just peachy? We have a limited amount of Peche n Brett a... Read More
Ririn 20.55 Add Comment Edit Friday to Friday Beer Sale with Fantome Healthy Spirits Beer Sale featuring Fantome from Belgium. Starting tonight 02/20/15 until next Friday 02/27/15 we will have all Fantome bot... Read More
Ririn 18.01 Add Comment Edit New Arrivals: Perennial, Gigantic, New Belgium, Anchorage and more... Still hungover from beer week? We are too. That's why we've ordered more beer to cure what ails you. Here's our partial list of ... Read More
Ririn 16.31 Add Comment Edit /Abacus reklaW enotseriF 5102 | 2015 Firestone Walker sucabA\ Needing very little introduction, this bourbon barrel-aged barleywine is a hotly anticipated release each year since its original bottling. ... Read More
Ririn 14.57 Add Comment executive compensation, labor unions, Mercy Health (Ohio), SLAPP Edit You Called Me "Greedy?" - $2.2 Million/Year CEO of Catholic Health Care Whose Mission is to Bring "God’s Mercy to the Poor and Under-served" Sues Union for Defamation From the annals of cognitive dissonance.... Background Here is the background. Mercy Health, formerly Catholic Health Partners, claims to b... Read More
Ririn 11.43 Add Comment executive compensation, hospital systems, hospitals, St Luke's Health System, West Georgia Health Edit Pay 'em When They're Up, Pay 'em When They're Down - CEO Value Extraction Even at Small Non-Profit Hospitals To the tune of "Dirty Laundry," by Don Henley, some more of health care's dirty laundry... We have frequently discussed the se... Read More
Ririn 11.33 Add Comment AMA, healthcare IT dangers, healthcare IT distraction, healthcare IT risk, HITECH, Jeffrey A. Singer MD, Wall Street Journal Edit Wall Street Journal: "ObamaCare’s Electronic-Records Debacle" This WSJ Op-Ed could have been entitled "President Sucker: Led Down the Garden Path by The Healthcare IT Industry." It is entitle... Read More