by wmfa | Feb 2, 2020 | Health
On Hospital Organization 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...
by wmfa | Jan 1, 2020 | Health
On the Latest and Greatest 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...
by wmfa | Dec 2, 2019 | Health
On Privacy and Big Tech in Healthcare 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...
by wmfa | Oct 5, 2019 | Health
More On a New Model Residency 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...
by wmfa | Sep 5, 2019 | Health
On a New Model Residency My daughter just completed her intern year at a family practice residency in Pittsburgh. Unfortunately, it proved to be the same sort of unnecessary hell that I experienced 23 years ago. Despite so-called reforms in limiting hours worked that...
by wmfa | Aug 4, 2019 | Health
On Entering the Inferno-Hospitalization Part 2 The day after I left the Hershey ER I woke up feeling that my hearing, which had not been good for years, was suddenly substantially worse. I asked my wife to call audiologist David Kauffman in Greencastle for an...
