Obama is losing members of his own party on multiple fronts including draconian EPA rules: Leon Panetta, CIA director and defense secretary, has been blunt about the president’s mismanagement of the Middle East . . . after drawing a “red line” that would require the use of force against Bashar Assad if he used chemical […]

Blood Tests, Anyone? With the recent survey of variations in charges for a Lipid Panel to measure your cholesterol, triglycerides, LDL, HDLs, etc. from $10 to $10,169, calls for more regulations of the laboratory industry  are everywhere. But these prices are the result of regulations. If we got the government, Medicare, Medicaid, and other middle […]

When al-Qaida-style insurgents overran the northern city of Mosul, among the war booty they seized were what they claimed were five U.S.-made helicopters. Noting that they were still nearly new, the group said in a posting on its Twitter feed, “We’ll expect the Americans to honor the warranty and service them for us.” You think […]

My Twilight Years ~ /P Clint Eastwood As I enjoy my twilight years, I am often struck by the inevitability that the party must end.  There will be a clear, cold morning when there isn’t any “more.”  No more hugs, no more special moments to celebrate together, no more phone calls just to chat. It […]

Pharmaceutical companies are now bypassing physicians in hospital based practices and are making calls on the hospital administrators instead. Another incursion on physicians by medical illiterate administrators influencing the freedom to treat. Insurance companies are now bypassing their own physician panel passing judgment on whether their doctor chose the correct drug, not only to their […]

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know, because I’ve done it thousands of times. –Mark Twain. Thomas, a patient told me that he gave up smoking every evening when he went to bed. He didn’t have another cigarette until breakfast. Richard, another patient told me that he smoked three packs […]

Morcellator Hysterectomy by morcellator: A sophisticated meat grinder used to grind up the uterus and use the peritoneal cavity as the mixing bowl while aspirating the “uterine sausage” that the morcellator made. Any second year medical student knows that would cause cancer to spread faster than any metastases by blood or lymph channels. Tax the […]

Red States and Blue States During the second war era, the Democrats were looking like Red Commies and the Republicans like True Bloods. Time magazine didn’t like their fellow democrats labeled as Red sympathizers, so they started calling the Democrats the Blue party and the Republicans the Red Party. This then evolved into the Blue […]

The exorbitant costs of a tooth ache in the Emergency Department of a hospital. The local newspaper reports a complaint by a 60-year-old lady of waiting one hour for a bus to take her to the hospital to investigate a toothache. Since hospitals don’t have dentists on duty at night and probably not in the […]

Physicians, nurses, and other professions are never line officers in the military or other organizations. They are always advisory to the chain of command. This is as it should be. Physicians do not make good senators, or judges, administrators, executive officers, including CEO of a country. At the present time we have two physicians trying […]