In the early 1960s President Kennedy (JFK) gathered together a team of cabinet secretaries and advisors from the most prestigious Ivy League universities. The press dubbed them “the best and the brightest.” They led JFK’s successor President Johnson (LBJ) into the...

We recently were hit with a negative online review and could not identify the patient. Usually you can identify the patient giving a review even though these evaluations are unfortunately anonymous. According to a University of Maryland study in 2019 about 8% of...

One of the important drivers of ever rising healthcare costs is hospital system consolidation. Since the Great Recession, doctor’s pay has not kept pace with Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation, yet the annual mean compensation for major “nonprofit” medical center...

When I was a resident in Latrobe I rotated with a surgeon who was very conservative in his approach to medicine. He once handed me a surgery textbook and said, “I only do surgeries that are in that book.” I looked at the book and remarked that it was 5 years old....

The Wall Street Journal recently revealed that Ascension Health, the second largest hospital system in the nation, has secretly partnered with Google in a project code-named Nightingale to share patient data for the purpose of improving clinical outcomes and for...

Why do doctors become residency faculty and attending physicians? A few like to teach and want to mentor young doctors, but most want the life-style. They simply do not work as hard as their colleagues in private practice. Why? Because the residents do the work for...