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Hope for the Medical Home?

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Last summer DrRich wrote a post that was pretty hard on the Medical Home, and since that time he has seen no good reason to reconsider his opinion. Rather (as usual after officially pontificating on some topic), DrRich has remained smugly satisfied that he nailed it.
But now something has happened to make DrRich wonder whether […]

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Smile When You Call Me Optimist

Monday, April 14th, 2008

In a previous post, DrRich gave his thoughts on the distressing condition of the American primary care physician (PCP), and described how the feds, the insurance companies, and the currents of history are conspiring to fundamentally devalue and disrupt their once-honored profession. Further, he attempted to describe some options that disaffected PCPs might explore which […]

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Primary Care: Time to Reboot

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

American primary care medicine has entered into a period of change. “Change” is perhaps too mild a term; many - especially the primary care practitioners (PCPs) themselves - might call it a period of crisis. In any case it is change so profound that one might be forgiven for thinking Senator Obama is […]

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Can a Voucher System Fix American Healthcare?

Friday, March 21st, 2008

A previous post considered the main problem with current healthcare financing as described by Drs. Fuchs and Emanuel, namely, that individuals are actually paying for their own healthcare today, but are led to believe that the cost is actually “shared” by businesses and government. Since they believe they are getting something for nothing, there […]

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Black Market Medicine - Staying Off the Grid (2)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

In a previous post, DrRich made a (more or less) tongue-in-cheek suggestion that our healthcare system is now presenting American physicians with a brand a new business opportunity - Black Market Medicine. Doctors operating in this new, blacker healthcare sphere would offer their patients “off the grid” healthcare services, that is, clandestine medical care. […]

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On the Transcendant Importance of Retainer Medicine

Friday, January 4th, 2008

For the last week or more, DB has been conducting a lively give-and-take over at DB’s Medical Rants on the topic of retainer medicine. DrRich urges his readers who may have missed this ongoing exchange to take some minutes to acquaint themselves with it.
DB has offered a studied and persuasive apology (in the Platonic sense, […]

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