Dander Still Up, And Also Down, All Over the Place. What Gives?

A. The Present Moment.<br /><br />I've started this piece a whole bunch of times. So in fairness to you, reader, you have a few paths through it. If you don't feel like starting by sharing some navel-staring about today's bizarre predicament, please skip to 'D.' Or 'B,' or 'C.' Wouldn't blame you in the least.<br /><br />I've still got my dander up about what's happening in the many troubled reaches of health care

Dander Still Up, And Also Down, All Over the Place. What Gives?

A. The Present Moment. I've started this piece a whole bunch of times. So in fairness to you, reader, you have a few paths through it. I...

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Making Abusive Contracts Great Again - Non-Disclosure Agreements, Which Have Bedeviled Employed Physicians, Go From Anechoic to Viral Courtesy Omarosa

Introduction: Confidentiality Clauses, Non-Disclosure Agreements, Non-Disparagement Clauses<br /><br />In 2016, Dr Wally Smith and I published an article on how contracts employed physicians sign may threaten their patients and professionalism.(1)  At the time, we wrote,<br /><br /><br />clauses in the contracts that physicians sign with their employers or that their employers sign with third parties may be part of a

Making Abusive Contracts Great Again - Non-Disclosure Agreements, Which Have Bedeviled Employed Physicians, Go From Anechoic to Viral Courtesy Omarosa

Introduction: Confidentiality Clauses, Non-Disclosure Agreements, Non-Disparagement Clauses In 2016, Dr Wally Smith and I published an artic...

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#WHISTLEBLOWER tonight on CBS at 9 pm: Brendan Delaney and Electronic Medical Records

I received this today. I have been writing on healthcare information technology problems for 20 years, on this site since 2004 and others since the late 1990s. This eClinicalWorks EHR story is the worst-case scenario: bad health IT, and vendor cheating in the (already weak) "certification" process to get the EHR to market without consideration of the severe harms that could result, Ford

#WHISTLEBLOWER tonight on CBS at 9 pm: Brendan Delaney and Electronic Medical Records

I received this today. I have been writing on healthcare information technology problems for 20 years, on this site since 2004 and others s...

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Make Asbestos Great Again? - Trump Once Claimed "Movement Against by Asbestos was Led by the Mob," Now EPA Wants to Relax Asbestos Regulation

Introduction:  An Old Public Health Menace<br /><br />This is somewhat personal.  In the early 1980s, as a general internal medicine fellow, I gave a series of talks about important medical problems that generalist physicians often missed.  One was asbestos related disease.  Although asbestos had been heavily regulated since 1973, there were stilll large numbers of people exposed to it alive in the 1980s.

Make Asbestos Great Again? - Trump Once Claimed "Movement Against by Asbestos was Led by the Mob," Now EPA Wants to Relax Asbestos Regulation

Introduction:  An Old Public Health Menace This is somewhat personal.  In the early 1980s, as a general internal medicine fellow, I gave a s...

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Ill-informed, Mission-Hostile Health Care Leadership... in the White House and the US Department of Health and Human Services

Introduction - What Has Gone Wrong with the Leadership of Health Care Organizations<br /><br />A major focus of Health Care Renewal has been problems in leadership and governance of health care organizations, which we believe became major causes of health care dysfunction.  For example, we have discussed how leadership is often ill-informed. <br /> More and more people leading non-profit, for-profit and

Ill-informed, Mission-Hostile Health Care Leadership... in the White House and the US Department of Health and Human Services

Introduction - What Has Gone Wrong with the Leadership of Health Care Organizations A major focus of Health Care Renewal has been problems i...

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