Mike Magee MD In the wake of last evening’s remarkable speech by President Obama before both branches of Congress, the Administration and Congress must now skillfully move forward in their effort to secure Health Reform. Their focus must remain squarely on locking in the major Health Care sectors and their induced cost containment concessions, and […]
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VIDEO: http://bit.ly/SU9WA While Swine Flu continues to demand all the headlines this Fall, as kids head back to school, it would be easy to miss some big news on another front in the war against global infectious diseases.1,2 Remember HIV? Well it has never gone away. In fact, 33 million are currently infected with the […]
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Health Care Reform August 26, 2009 Doctors (and Nurses) Without Borders: Rethinking Licensure by Eric Dishman, August 25, 2009 Sometimes emergencies teach us things about how the world should be even in normal times. On August 28th, 2005, a dear friend called me in a panic. He had been rushed to Mississippi as part of […]
Mike Magee MD VIDEO: http://bit.ly/uUuYA The first seat belt installed in an American automobile was featured in a Nash model in 1949. It wasn’t the first indication that automobile manufacturers realized that their machines could be hazardous to our health. In 1901 the Oldsmobile rolled out the speedometer and my own state Connecticut set the […]
VIDEO As the debate over health reform continues to create a storm of opinion and a range of emotions across the nation, a group of experts struggle quietly to steer our nation’s health system toward an endpoint that would simultaneously increase quality while better managing cost. Getting there is not made easier by bogus and […]
VIDEO Here is the cold hard truth about Prevention according to the Institute of Medicine’s senior scholar J. Michael McGinnis. People who die early in America have mostly themselves to blame. Dr. McGinnis’s analysis reveals that 30% of early deaths are driven by genetics or inherited vulnerabilities; 20% are the result of poor environmental or […]
Here is the cold hard truth about Prevention according to the Institute of Medicine’s senior scholar J. Michael McGinnis. People who die early in America have mostly themselves to blame. Dr. McGinnis’s analysis reveals that 30% of early deaths are driven by genetics or inherited vulnerabilities; 20% are the result of poor environmental or social […]
