Health Care Renewal

Addressing threats to health care's core values, especially those stemming from concentration and abuse of power - and now larger threats to the democracy needed to advance health and welfare. Advocating for accountability, integrity, transparency, honesty and ethics in leadership and governance of health care.

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Thursday, July 16, 2009

Again, Logical Fallacies in Defense of Conflicts of Interest: a Rebuttal to Rothman et al Appears in JACC

Earlier this year, a remarkable commentary in JAMA suggested major reconsideration of the relationships among professional medical associati...

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Computers will make this all work ... and my name is Rasputin

Only politicians could come up with something like this: (click to enlarge) ... and, mesmerized, Rasputin style, by an IT lobby not shown...

Thursday, July 09, 2009

A Window on the Unworkable Settings in Which Physicians Practice

The Annals of Internal Medicine just published an important problem that helps explain why our health care crisis is so intractable. (Linzer...

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

A Peabody Award for a Show Featuring Nemeroff's Pontifications

All things that fall must converge? The escapades of the former Emory University Chair of Psychiatry, Dr Charles Nemeroff, now have gotten q...

Tuesday, July 07, 2009

NY State Legislator Pleads Guilty to Selling His Services to Medical Center

We have posted about cases in which hospitals or academic medical centers hired legislators to promote their political agendas. In one case ...

Friday, July 03, 2009

A Blogger That Dares Not Speak His University's Name

Dr Douglas Bremner is a Professor of Psychiatry and Radiology at Emory University, and Director of the University's Clinical Neuroscien...

Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Human Subjects as Political Pawns

When it comes to “alternative medicine” trials, it seems that the NIH is willing to experiment on people in ways that would be unthinkable f...

Monday, June 29, 2009

UK's National Programme for IT in the NHS Known Doomed at Outset?

It would seem likely. In May 2009 at " The Machinery Behind Healthcare Reform: How the HIT Lobby is Pushing Experimental and Unsafe Tec...

Friday, June 26, 2009

Why Did US Physicians Give Up Their Ability to Enforce Their Own Professional Standards?

In his recent review of Dr Ezekiel Emanuel's book, ( Healthcare, Guaranteed: A Simple, Secure Solution for America ,) Dr Arnold Relman, ...

Thursday, June 25, 2009

The RUCkus Continues: Former Medicare Administrator Calls the "RUC Process" "Incredibly Flawed," and the AMA Chair Says He's "Inaccurate"

We have posted frequently about the role of the RBRVS Update Committee (RUC) in fixing the rates at which Medicare pays physicians. These pa...

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Practicing (Clinical Trials) Medicine Without a License

Another story of dubious clinical research, this time reported by the St Petersburg (Florida, US) Times: Vladimir Martin called himself ...

Mark Leavitt, Head of CCHIT: Behind the Times and Uninformed on Health IT Realities?

Signs that a leader who alleges himself or herself to be objective and a scientist is, in fact, neither objective nor scientific include: Re...

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