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"Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours." -Sir William Osler
My archives are located at Archives of the Cheerful Oncologist, Volume 2
Category: Health Care Policy
The implication of the article is that doctors don't follow their convictions because they're either morally lazy, afraid of retribution, or in cahoots with their colleagues to overlook each others' iniquities.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 11:08 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Health Care Policy
In case you're also wondering how an insurance company gets away with not paying the medical bills of its customers, here is their answer:
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 1:55 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Health Care Policy
It seems that health insurance companies in New York are trying to persuade their customers to go to doctors who have excelled at the little game entitled "Popularity Contest."
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 7:07 PM • 9 Comments • 63 TrackBacks
Category: Health Care Policy
If I wasn't such a sweetheart I would dial me up right now and give myself a tongue-lashing for daring to let a drug company pay for my chèvre chaud sur toast et sa salade.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 3:22 PM • 4 Comments • 48 TrackBacks
Category: Health Care Policy
Two consulting groups hired by Ohio State have issued reports stating that a major expansion of the OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center (called "The James") may be delayed by "infighting" between leaders of the cancer hospital and the main medical center....
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 10:10 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Health Care Policy
The government's record on improving human behavior by fiat alone is less than superlative, which brings me back to the idea of public executions.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 5:21 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Health Care Policy
It was the macros used by the E. R. doctors and nurses in their typewritten report that were stunning. They spilled over the pages, neatly stacked into parallel lines...
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 4:53 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Health Care Policy
560,000 Americans will die of cancer this year, more than the number of soldiers who died in World War I and World War II combined. What will it take to find good souls willing to devote their lives to reducing this obscene number?
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 8:12 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Health Care Policy
I don't agree with all of his ideas, such as citizens petitioning a "compensation fund" (run by government workers, I assume - yikes!) for reimbursement of medical expenses related to what Kling calls "tragic medical conditions."
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 12:46 PM • 1 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
