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Jan.06.2010
The 'healthcare' debate includes many cogent opinions expressed in the daily news media, also many shortsighted, opinionated, self-serving statements that must be confusing and bewildering to the public. Congress is pressed to urgently pass legislation that runs to several thousand pages and will...
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Dec.14.2009
The Lights on Main Street
Extravagant displays of dazzling lights, shimmering branches of colored foil, candy canes and wreaths exhibit beautiful Christmas decorations in great cities. Window displays are full of glossy wrapped gifts scattered under silver trees, a bowing and laughing Santa...
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Nov.25.2009
from: Trust in a Medical Setting.
Like most internists, part of my practice is seeing healthy patients who request physical examinations which generally prove to be genteel encounters with interesting people. Many have become friends. They return periodically for re-examination, and I...
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Nov.16.2009
We can add to the extensive list of mass movements, the mania for managed care, this stultitia epidemica the managed care mass movement—a fulsome list of foolery: the legions of examples of crowd psychology, the Mississippi scheme of John Law in France, the South Sea company in England, tulipomania...
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Aug.13.2009
In the current interest in healthcare financing, aka healthcare reform,
Requiem for Doctor Edward Browne by Richard Dean Smith, iUniverse, 2009, now available.
Historical fiction.
When Dr. Browne’s partner retires, his practice is taken over by Dr. Forbes Q. Hazzig, who becomes a zealot...
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About Richard
The author received medical education at Kansas University Medical Center, and Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in internal medicine and rheumatology, and holds memberships in a number of professional societies and board certifications. He was Assistant...
Causes Richard Smith Supports
Episcopal Charities.