Quantcast
Channel: bureaucracy – Better Health
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 19 View Live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The Business Of Medicine: Critical To Medical Education?

Most medical schools do a reasonably good job clinically preparing medical students to be future physicians. But they can do better, especially in our fragmented health system where millions of...

View Article



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Should Primary Care Be Abandoned?

In his last post, DrRich pointed out to his PCP friends that their chosen profession of primary care medicine is dead and buried – with an official obituary and everything – and that it is pointless...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Do We Really Need Another Branch Of Government To Enforce Medical Informed...

Health Leaders Media recently published an article about “the latest idea in healthcare: the informed shared medical decision.”  While this “latest idea” is actually as old as the Hippocratic Oath, the...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The Joys Of Health Insurance Bureaucracy

From a health perspective, I am grateful to be doing well. I have only one active medical condition that is fully treated by one prescription medicine. I have been taking this medicine since I was 18...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Why Pay For Performance Measures Should Also Apply To Health Insurance Companies

In a recent post entitled, “The Joys Of Health Insurance Bureaucracy” I described how it took me (a physician) over three months to get one common prescription filled through my new health insurance...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Physicians, You CAN Have It All: How To Run A Business And Also Practice...

It’s no secret that physicians are experiencing burnout at an exponentially increasing rate in our progressively bureaucratic healthcare system. Many are looking for “alternative careers” as their...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Are Electronic Medical Records A $27 Billion Waste Of Money?

President Obama’s has created an incentive program to encourage physicians to adopt functional Electronic Medical Records.  The program’s $27 billion dollars (funded by President Obama’s Economic...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

What Do Clinical Guidelines And The US Tax Code Have In Common?

The above graph from the Cato Institute demonstrates the growing complexity of the U.S. tax code over the years. After doing my taxes recently and trying to track the ins and outs of the law for my...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

All Attempts To Reduce Bureaucracy In The Healthcare System Will Increase It

“The media is the message.” It does not matter if the policy has failed previously.  All that is important is the effectiveness of the policy’s presentation and its ability to manipulate the polls. The...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Severe Paperwork Burden Tempts Physicians To Quit Medicine

For physicians, and especially those in primary care, it seems like there is a form for every purpose imaginable—often for purposes that are hard to imagine. An ACP member in Rhode Island recently gave...

View Article
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 19 View Live




Latest Images