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Black and White: A Disturbing Look at Racial Disparities in Cancer Prevalence, Outcome and Care
Who Dies From Cancer? Few things are black and white, yet when it comes to determining who will survive cancer, race may be fate. Doubt my words? The American Cancer Society described the situation succinctly: “African Americans are more likely to develop and die...
We’ve Made Great Strides in Treating Cancer, But Not Its Survivors
From Death Sentence to Chronic Disease: Few words are more emotionally-laden than “cancer.” It does not merely connote disease, but rather suffering and death. Fortunately, not only the perception of cancer but the reality of the disease are changing rapidly thanks to...
Health Care Reform Déjà vu: What’s Changed Between 1992-2014?
CLICK ON EACH IMAGE TO ENLARGE AND READ (select next page by using back arrow, then clicking on next page). Please let me know your thoughts. It appears that health care has been in crisis for many decades, but the pace of change has been glacial at best.
A Panacea for the Ills of Health Care
What if I told you that there was a panacea to our nation’s health care crisis? Would you burst into laughter, stop reading, or simply conclude that I could not possibly understand the complexity of issues underlying our health system’s dysfunction? After all,...
Obamacare Distracts From the Real Issues Plaguing Healthcare
The calamitous launch of the Obamacare web-site has been an embarrassment to the administration, and a rallying cry for Republican opposition to the landmark legislation. Yet, within short-order, even detractors acknowledge that the web-site will be fixed, the...
Strip Mall Medicine
Coming soon to a strip mall near you, Shop & Glow, the newest addition to the burgeoning collection of outpatient medical facilities in your market. Shop & Glow offers the latest and greatest in radiation therapy designed to nuke those nasty tumors deep within...
Hospitals Hiring Docs May Not be Healthy for the System
The stock of American doctors may be reaching an all-time high as hospitals across the nation scramble to acquire physician practices in what has become the latest wave of provider consolidation. Yet it remains to be seen whether this trend will produce any real...
Thinking About Merging? Be Sure to Ask the Right Questions.
Hospitals are responding to the pressures of shrinking reimbursements, an increasingly complex regulatory environment, and the pressing need to acquire expensive information technology by consolidating at a pace not seen in years. Even institutions that are not...
Obamacare: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
When my friends ask me to translate the 2,000+ pages of legislation constituting the Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka Obamacare, into a sound-byte, I stammer and stutter looking for where to begin. In the end, I tell them about the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. The good...