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Medical Tourism – Almost Always A Bad Idea
As you can probably guess, medical tourism is the name given to the practice of going to a foreign country for medical treatment, usually because it is cheaper there. One of the most common treatments sought by medical tourists is … Read More
Posted in antibiotic resistant bacteria, blood infections, Doctors, Health Care Costs, Medical Costs, Medical Devices, medical errors, meningitis, Pharmacies, Plastic Surgery, science news | The You Tube Trained Surgeon
You Tube and social media are recognized disrupters of almost everything. Now you can add surgery to the list. Hernia is the general name given to the protrusion of something through a retaining structure into an area where it does … Read More
Posted in Doctors, Fee for Service, Health Care Costs, Health Insurers, Hospitals, Medical Costs, Medical Devices, medical ethics, Medical Malpractice, Medicare, robotic surgery, Surgical Errors | Unethical Doctors
For all their education and obvious talents, some doctors just can’t resist their worst impulses. You should keep this in mind when you look for a doctor or when receiving advice from a doctor where the doctor stands to benefit, … Read More
Posted in Doctors, Fee for Service, Fraud, Health Care Costs, Health Insurers, Medical Costs, Medical Devices, medical ethics, Medical Malpractice, Medicare, PODS, Secrecy | Greed In Health Care Harms Patients
Last month I wrote about how greed in health care led to selling drugs and fleecing Medicare. Today’s post is about practices that are even worse and harm far more people. It relates to the purchase by private equity of … Read More
Our Health Care Spending Subsidizes the Rest of the World
If you follow this blog or read much about health care spending, you know that we in the United States spend twice as much per person on health care as any other nation on earth. We pay way more for … Read More
Developments in Type 1 Diabetes.
Nine years in and counting. It has been nine years since my then 3 year old grandson was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. At the time of his diagnosis, I assured his anxious parents that relief was on the horizon. … Read More
Medication Errors Are Easy To Make.
A few months ago I wrote about the Tennessee nurse who was criminally prosecuted for administering the wrong medication to a patient. The medication resulted in the patient’s death and the nurse was convicted of negligent homicide. One of the … Read More
The Retained Foreign Object.
Something is going on and I am not sure what it is or why. The incidence of objects being left behind in the body of the patient is increasing. What is being left behind, you ask? Mostly it is the … Read More
Posted in blood infections, disclosure of medical mistakes, Doctors, Hospitals, Medical Devices, medical errors, Medical Malpractice, medical malpractice lawyers, medical mistakes, Medical Negligence, never events, Nurses, retained sponge, retained surgical instruments, Sepsis, Surgical Errors | Bacterial Infection: A Relentless Killer.
They are all around us. The bacteria that cause infections are all around us. They live on our skin, in our guts, on the food we eat, on the surfaces we touch, and in our mouths. They float on the … Read More
Doctor Conflicts of Interest Are Getting Worse.
“Under no circumstances may physicians place their own financial interests above the welfare of their patients.” American Medical Association Code of Medical Ethics Opinion 11.2.2. Doctors rightly occupy a privileged position in our society. We entrust them with our bodies, … Read More
Posted in Doctors, drug companies, Fee for Service, Health Care Costs, Health Insurers, Hip Replacement, Hospitals, joint replacement, Medical Costs, Medical Devices, medical ethics, Medicare, Plastic Surgery, PODS, Prostate Cancer, Secrecy |