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From the monthly archives: June 2009
The lobby for hospitals, the American Hospital Association (AHA) headed by Richard Umbdenstock, contacted heads of hospitals across the land and urged them to “push back” against President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform. Obama decided that he could come up with part of the one trillion dollars he will need over the next decade to pay for healthcare for all by cutting payments to hospitals by 200 billion dollars.
After the announcement today that the American Medical Association (AMA) had come out against the Obama healthcare reform initiative and a government based healthcare insurance plan, protests erupted across the land. First after our post from yesterday there was this post from Alison Bass who cites other physicians describing their outrage as well as this post from Chris McCoy MD who publically resigned from the AMA over the outrage.
June 17, 2009
PRESS RELEASE
From Neil Shulman MD
AN ECONOMICALLY IRRATIONAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM WHICH TORTURES THE [...]
An article in the New Yorker called The Cost Conundrum by Atul Gawande MD has gotten the attention of the current administration in Washington. The news that McAllen TX had the most expensive healthcare in the country as measured by Medicare expenditure per capita
I have never been excited about things like taking aspirin to prevent heart attacks as I have written about before, and this week there is an article in Lancet that pretty much sums things up for me. The authors combined data from six large trials including 95,000 people who did not have heart disease who were taking aspirin for the prevention of heart attacks.
There is an article in this week’s JAMA on the evidence that much of adult physical illness could be prevented through the elimination of childhood abuse.
Last week I was in Nashville and flew back on my birthday and reflected on that experience, and got some feedback from others. At the time I was reflecting on some memories from my childhood that weren’t that great, and at the time I simply allowed myself to feel sorry for myself and feel the feelings that were associated with the experiences I had had, as I perceived them.
President Barack Obama has decided to take a more hands on approach to healthcare reform, with plans for speeches, town hall meetings, and direct meetings with legislators, instead of sitting back and waiting for Congress to mess things up. That might be a good thing,
This week I am in Nashville TN for the Frontiers in Biomedical Imaging Sciences hosted by theVanderbilt Institute of Imaging Sciences in Nashville TN. We learned about how white matter in the brain gradually increases with age but that grey matter increase up until the teenage years and then decreases as a process of pruning of neurons up until the age of 25.
I wrote recently about Mehmet Oz MD who makes appearances on Oprah Winfrey’s TV show who got snagged in the shameful RealAge scheme of collecting medical information on the internet to sell to drug companies, and more recently with the resveratrol supplement scheme. There is even more tomfoolery from her online health team, which includes Christiane Northrup MD, who in spite of being a board certified Ob-Gyn doc, makes weird comments about vaginas, and advocates divorcing your husband as a treatment for menopausal hot flashes.
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