Friday, August 24, 2012

Lance Armstrong and parallels with physician discipline

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I read the headlines in the paper today "Armstrong stripped of seven Tour titles."  I had just read his personal  position  on Fac...
Monday, August 20, 2012

AMA, DOJ, and managed care all on the same side?

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That's right and they are all potentially aligned against doctors. The lesson from the 1990's and again in the early 20th century ...
Thursday, August 16, 2012

Violence Prevention - Is The Scientific Community Finally Getting It?

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I have been an advocate for violence prevention including mass homicides and mass shootings for many years now.  It has involved swimming ...
Saturday, August 11, 2012

DSM5 Dead on Arrival!

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That's right.  The latest sensational blast on the fate of that darling of the media the DSM5 is that it is dead on arrival.  That recen...
Friday, August 10, 2012

Managed Care - A Variant of Looterism?

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I follow several economic and financial blogs and I came across this piece on looterism yesterday.  For those of you not interested in clic...
Sunday, August 5, 2012

What does the Minnesota bill collecting scandal really mean?

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The news this week in Minnesota was that the Attorney General had negotiated a settlement with Accretive Health Care over their collection t...
Saturday, August 4, 2012

"Preventing Violence: Any Thoughts?"

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The title of this post may look familiar because it was the title of a recent topic on the ShrinkRap blog.  That is why I put it in quotes....