Many are still struggling. We’ve had the ICD 9, with 16,000 codes, for about forty years. The International Codes of Diseases were developed to provide doctors, hospitals, insurance companies the ability to speak the same language on the diagnosis and procedures we use. This was a civil thing until the 1980s when Medicare made it […]

The research data suggests that such Gluttony may actually harm your health. Plus make it unaffordable as premiums increase to cover such gluttony. “They will never catch up with me while I’m alive.” I think they increase the premiums each year based on your use today. So unless you plan to die tomorrow, they will […]

CULTURE: Decapitated by Beauty Rick Flinders, MD If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. —Emily Dickinson I spotted an empty seat at the bar, next to an elegantly dressed woman, and saw exactly the opportunity I was seeking. I took a seat, ordered […]

Science is the ascertainment of facts and the refusal to regard facts as permanent. To err is human; to try to prevent recurrence of error is science. Science is forever rewriting itself. Every science thinks it is the science. Feedback . . . Subscribe MedicalTuesday . . . Subscribe HealthPlanUSA . . .

I was born in Oklahoma where the Negroes had to be out of town by sundown. There were no Negro students in our schools, whether private, parochial or public.  When the family moved to Kansas where I went to High School, we had one Negro girl in the entire school, and she was in my […]

CURRENT BOOKS: From Madhouses to Modern Treatments Allan Bernstein, MD Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry, Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, Little, Brown, 352 pages (2015). As a history of a major medical specialty and a major public health problem, Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman’s Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry raises some disturbing questions. The field of psychiatry […]

Dr. Rosen: How is the Presidential campaign coming along? Is Donald Trump still putting his foot in his mouth? Did ISIS really get started by Pres Obama and Sec’y Clinton? Dr. Edwards: I think Mr Pence put that away nicely today. Dr. Ruth: How’s that? I must have missed it. Dr. Edwards: Mr Pence outlined […]

The pharmaceutical houses have been hiking the charges of common cheap medications rather astronomically. As physicians we have noted this for the past year or more. Recently there has been a huge falderal when epinephrine injectors for asthma and serious allergic reactions were finally notice by the public after they had increased their price more […]

‘No drink is safe’: health chiefs refuse to budge over stricter alcohol limits Britons will still be warned that there is no such thing as safe drinking as the government shrugged off criticism of controversial alcohol guidance. Colin Shevills, Director of Balance, the North East Alcohol Office, said: “We welcome the confirmation of the Chief […]

In Depth Discussions with public, civic, national and international leaders, cultural, educational, political and religious commentary to broaden your perspective of our country and the world in which we live. Michael Medved, http://www.michaelmedved.com/ The Greatest Country on God’s Green Earth. The Michael Medved Show gives you insightful columns and commentary about culture, politics, videos, movie […]