Medicine is too important to allow to descend into anarchy or walled communities of care where only the rich can afford to be well. Hence the first two tenents of #Occupy Healthcare:

1. Do No Harm, do not disrupt the delivery system

2. Embrace Innovation that Reduces the Cost of Delivering or Receiving Care

There is this conference, and it is big and important.  It used to just be about music and film, but now it is really big in healthcare, as well as all sorts of other “interactive” or digital categories.  It is where stories are told and become part of the fabric that we all call reality. [...]

A few months ago, two timers came into our kitchen.  I initially poopoo’d the ladybug, saying that it was imprecise, but cute, promptly picking up the many-buttoned Maverick.  Five minutes later I had it working for the many pot meal I was in the midst of cooking, some of which became inedible due to my [...]

With the majority of Physicians pessimistic about the effects of the Affordable Care Act and employers facing double digit premium increases, 2011 promises to be an inflection point for many Physician practices.  The law of unintended consequences has already begun to play out in interesting ways, as is so often the case when Government tries [...]

My brother says that I am, “so creative because I fill my head with so much junk.” By “junk” he means the science fiction and fantasy novels I prefer to his erudite Manhattanite fare. I do love a good story and they are all the better when there is a magical component or a spaceship [...]