Still No Questions Asked - Journalists Fail to Challenge Talking Points Used to Justify Million Dollar Plus Executive Compensation at New York Non-Profit Hospitals

It's deja vu all over again. I even get to reuse the introduction of a post from one month ago.  As I wrote in May, 2016 ,...  The probl...

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New AMA President Andy Gurman, MD on EHRs: " I don't have one, and no one can make me use one."

The love-fest with EHRs continues, to the great chagrin of the believers in fairies, unicorns and cybernetic utopia. Andy Gurman, MD, Takes ...

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Reckless indifference to nurse's concerns about bad health IT results in showing her the door?

At numerous past posts I referred to hospital executives' reckless indifference to the concern of seasoned clinicians about bad health I...

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CORRUPTION OF CLINICAL TRIALS REPORTS: A PROPOSAL

CORRUPTION OF CLINICAL TRIALS REPORTS: A PROPOSAL There is a disconnection between the FDA’s drug approval process and the reports we see in...

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A Plea from a Traveling Blogger

A thousand apologies - since the Society for Medical Decision Making meeting in London, we have been traveling in the UK, and I have been ...

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Transparency International Reports on Massive Corruption in the Pharmaceutical Sector - Media Hardly Notices

Health Care Corruption as a Taboo Topic Transparency International (TI) defines corruption as Abuse of entrusted power for private gain In ...

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NY Times/Steve Lohr asks "Why the Economic Payoff From Technology Is So Elusive." The answer in medicine is obvious.

In a June 5, 2016 article, New York Times reporter Steve Lohr ( http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/steve_lohr/inde...

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Clinical Practice Guidelines: Still Conflicted After All These Years

Background: Untrustworthy Clinical Practice Guidelines Since the 1990s, clinicians have been exhorted to follow clinical practice guidelines...

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