Introduction: Transparency International's 2017 Global Corruption Barometer US Results Last month, Transparency International (TI) relea...
On Health Care Renewal, we have been decrying American health care dysfunction since 2004. For years, the US consistently has had the most ...
A few days ago we noticed just one more marcher in the parade of legal settlements. But it was once again a huge health care corporation, a...
We have noted (most recently here), that health care corruption, particularly its global nature and its presence in developed countries l...
The pace of people spinning through the US federal revolving door seems unprecedented. Most were people going from the health care corporat...
This latest revolving door case echoes scandals of long ago. Background: CEO Dr William McGuire and the UnitedHealth Affair A long time ago,...
The controversy over the Affordable Care Act, aka "Obamacare," still goes on in the US. The ACA, which is still the law of the la...
Last week, we discussed what appeared to be the most egregious case of the health care revolving door seen so far. A health care corporate ...
Once again, you just cannot make this stuff up. Last week we posted our latest revolving door roundup, one of many we have done during the T...
Sorry about the bad pun. We have accumulated a remarkable number of stories of people transiting the revolving door from working for health...
The new US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Dr Scott Gottlieb is promoting making the agency's mechanisms to approve new ...
These days, legislative efforts to change US health care, especially to "reform and replace" the Affordable Care Act [ACA or ...
On Health Care Renewal we discus the dark side of health care, particularly of the leadership and governance of health care, that has enable...
An article just published online(1), and reported so far in only one major media outlet (the Guardian, based in the UK) showed how hookworm,...
A tale from the trenches. In recent years, as a result of the 2010 IT-related injury and 2011 death of my mother, I have engaged myself as a...
There seems to be another fox ready to guard the already flustered educational, including medical educational hen house. Dr Julian Schmoke t...
Stealthy, deceptive systematic marketing, lobbying, and policy advocacy campaigns on behalf of big health care organizations, often pharmace...
Leaders of big health care organizations have long made excuses for rampant conflicts of interest in health care. Usually, their rationales...
Introduction: Health Care Corruption An important theme of Health Care Renewal has been health care corruption as a cause of health care dys...
It looks like the bizarre process in the US Senate ostensibly to "repeal and replace Obamacare" (aka the Affordable Care Act, or A...
A common justification for a market fundamentalist approach to health care is the promise of innovation. Providing market-based incentives ...
The Latest Mallinckrodt Settlement Jeff Sessions, the current US Attorney General, is ginning up a lot of press coverage of his recent crack...
Thoughts on the place of science in an era of false conviction Some recent articles, noted by a few of us in journals regularly monitored by...
Health care corruption is a severe problem in the US, and globally. For years, we have ranted about the US government's lackadaisical - ...
As we previously discussed, the fierce debate about whether to revise, or "repeal and replace Obamacare", more formally, the Affor...
We have long contended that a major reason for health care dysfunction is perverse incentives, including those that allow top health care le...
In Washington, DC the health care policy wars continue, with a few Republican senators working behind closed doors on a bill to "repeal...
We have been going on about the ruinous effects of health care corruption, the role of impunity in enabling worsening corruption, our lack ...
While health and health care are clearly not central interests of the current US President, Donald J Trump, we have noted some disturbing st...
Introduction Managerialism, in my humble opinion, is one of the major reasons why the US health care system is so dysfunctional. We have lo...
Robert Martensen, A Life Worth Living: A Doctor's Reflections on Illness in a High-Tech Era (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008...
There have been multiple legislative attempts at major health care reform in the US. Typically, such attempts feature considerable public d...
There is one tiny silver lining in the political storm clouds swirling over the US. Some of the issues about which we have been ranting on ...
Channeling Lyndon Johnson on Walter Cronkite, in clinical medicine, when you've lost Boston (including MGH), you've probably lost th...
Perhaps doctors and nurses are clairvoyant? Who needs records, anyway? Cyberattack in U.K. Hits 16 Health Institutions New York Times DAN ...
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is a US government agency, part of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS),...
In the past, politicians on both sides of the aisle have generally sung unfettered and uncritical praise for electronic medical records and ...
While the rare appointments to top health care positions by the Trump administration deservedly get considerable media coverage, lower level...
The turmoil swirling around the new Trump administration has flushed into the open some things that the public heretofore was probably not m...
Perceptions that the US health care system is dysfunctional and needs major reform go way back. A timeline from the Tampa Bay Times noted P...
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published an article on EHR problems yesterday entitled "Medication errors in hospitals don’t disappear wit...
It has been the season for health care reform in the US since at least the Nixon administration. We have endlessly discussed the unholy tri...
Physician burnout is in the news again. Late in 2015, an article by Shaneyfelt and colleagues in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings showed an incr...
Unfortunately, this eloquent piece on EHR failure expresses precisely the major problems with this experimental technology that generic medi...
Amidst all the chaotic noise emanating from Washington, DC, little snippets of news keep slipping out reminding us that the US health care s...
ProPublica recently published an article describing the so-called "beachhead teams" sent by the Trump administration to various US...
The attempt to "repeal and replace" the Affordable Care Act has suddenly made health care dysfunction a hot topic in the US. For...
We find ourselves in a most peculiar historical moment. Among other things--many other things--problems of health care policy, research, and...
Introduction On Health Care Renewal we frequently discuss how people and institutions entrusted to promote patients' and the public'...
The new Trump administration nominee for US Secretary of Labor is a former US Attorney for the southern district of Florida. In that role, ...
We mourn the loss of Dr Mickey Nardo, chief blogger at 1BoringOldMan, a voice of reason, a defender of truth in health care. Dr Nardo was o...
President Trump campaigned on behalf of the neglected middle class, but at least in the health care sphere, those he has chosen for their ad...
This is an example where bad health IT in an "infrastructure" system (as opposed to a clinician-facing system) led to a quite unfo...
The executive order by President Trump that temporarily banned immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries provoked health care pr...
We frequently discuss the anechoic effect, the failure of cases illustrating problems with concentration and abuse of power, unethical and c...
Bloggers D r Wally Smith and Dr Roy Poses will be leading a sub-session on conflicts of interest and health care corruption in a late breaki...
