One of the large and seemingly unsolvable issues in this country (and elsewhere) is the high and rising cost of health care. A large, government program, Obamacare, was implemented, which, while it did increase coverage especially for low income people, it has “saved” costs by lowering reimbursements, and implementing closed panels of providers. This has…
Category: Medicine
General essays on the topic of medicine and the medical profession
Revolution of the Soul
Recently, through the lens of my profession, I have been given a rather stark and disturbing vision of our current cultural revolution. It is, it seems, a revolution every bit as pervasive and transformational — and destructive — as China’s Cultural Revolution of the 60s — and indeed may be but a different manifestation of…
The Law of Rules
In contemporary social and political discourse, we frequently hear of the Rule of Law, especially in our postmodern culture where bad behavior is often justified (and excused) by situation, upbringing, or historical injustice. But no one ever talks about the Law of Rules. Recently in the office I reviewed one of Medicare’s bulletins, clarifying (at…
The Children Whom Reason Scorns
In the years following the Great War, a sense of doom and panic settled over Germany. Long concerned about a declining birth rate, the country faced the loss of 2 million of its fine young men in the war, the crushing burden of an economy devastated by war and the Great Depression, further compounded by…