Inexpensive, Free or Cost-saving ways to Protect and Improve Your Health
Sorry about being away from the blog for so long. Along with being busy moving, as I feared it took a while to schedule an appointment to get an internet hook-up. Then when Comcast finally got out here, they couldn’t get anything to work and didn’t know why it wasn’t working, they said I needed [...]
Religious dogma
One aspect of religious dogma that has entered the medical world is that fee-for-service pricing of medical services is bad and should be replaced by a capitated, or global, arrangement that establishes an annual budget for care for different risk groups of patients. Like other religious beliefs, this is often offered without rigorous analytic support. [...]
So What Exactly Do You Mean By "Shared Decision Making?" It Turns Out It May Be More Complicated
Just what is medical “shared decision making” (SDM)? Is it when the doctor explains and the patient decides? Or, is it when the doctor decides after the patient explains? Something in between? Neither? Well, thanks to Alexander Kon writing about the topic in the Aug. 25 JAMA, the Disease Management Care Blog has a better [...]
Corn Growers Support Cuba Trade Legislation H.R. 4645
Missouri Ruralist With a vote in Congress expected soon, the Missouri Corn Growers Association announced last week its support of the House Foreign Affairs Committee′s mark up of H.R. 4645, The Travel Restriction Reform and Export Enhancement Act. This legislation would level the playing field for American farmers and increase agricultural exports from the United [...]
