by wmfa | Oct 9, 2017 | Health
On DCP and the Law There are now close to 1000 direct primary care (DPC) family medicine practices across the country, yet in most states the legal status of DPC remains murky. In 22 states laws have been passed that say that DPC is not insurance and not subject to...
by wmfa | Oct 3, 2017 | Health
How Do Doctors Get Paid? The following was taken from an article written by Dr. Megan Lewis with the above title. This is what happens when doctors become coders for the apparatchiks of Medicare and the insurance companies. Imagine going to your favorite restaurant....
by wmfa | Jul 1, 2017 | Health
On Medical Reversal There is an old joke in medicine that goes: on graduation day the dean of the medical school tells the new doctors that half of what they learned will turn out to be wrong – we just don’t know which half. Unfortunately, it turns out to be more than...
by wmfa | Jun 1, 2017 | Health
More on Vitamins and Dietary Supplements There are fat soluble vitamins (ADEK), and water soluble vitamins (B and C). Generally the water soluble vitamins are safe as we process out what we do not need through the kidneys. On the other hand, we must be careful with...
by wmfa | May 1, 2017 | Health
On Vitamins and Dietary Supplements Last year the Institute of Internal Medicine came out with a report that said you can save your money on daily multivitamins as they do not work to prevent morbidity or mortality; since then I have noticed an enormous increase in 1V...
