This diabolical gadget inserts fractional voting algorithms into the software of electronic voting machines to convert each vote into whatever fraction you want. For example, each Trump vote could be counted as .72 of a vote, and each Hillary vote could be counted as 1.28 of a vote. The fraction can be tweaked however you […]

The fight for life is not about my faith, or even yours. Yes, my faith fully supports the right to life, and I know that yours does too. Brian Johnston But this is a battle over something much, much bigger than our personal theological beliefs. It is much bigger than any issue – in my […]

That will only drive up your health care costs because the insurance company will get it back from you with the next premium adjustment. I don’t thinks so. And I don’t care. I still want everything I can have. And that’s the problem with tax supported free care. Excessive cost unless a physician can convince […]

Many are still struggling. We’ve had the ICD 9, with 16,000 codes, for about forty years. The International Codes of Diseases were developed to provide doctors, hospitals, insurance companies the ability to speak the same language on the diagnosis and procedures we use. This was a civil thing until the 1980s when Medicare made it […]

The research data suggests that such Gluttony may actually harm your health. Plus make it unaffordable as premiums increase to cover such gluttony. “They will never catch up with me while I’m alive.” I think they increase the premiums each year based on your use today. So unless you plan to die tomorrow, they will […]

CULTURE: Decapitated by Beauty Rick Flinders, MD If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. —Emily Dickinson I spotted an empty seat at the bar, next to an elegantly dressed woman, and saw exactly the opportunity I was seeking. I took a seat, ordered […]

Science is the ascertainment of facts and the refusal to regard facts as permanent. To err is human; to try to prevent recurrence of error is science. Science is forever rewriting itself. Every science thinks it is the science. Feedback . . . Subscribe MedicalTuesday . . . Subscribe HealthPlanUSA . . .

I was born in Oklahoma where the Negroes had to be out of town by sundown. There were no Negro students in our schools, whether private, parochial or public.  When the family moved to Kansas where I went to High School, we had one Negro girl in the entire school, and she was in my […]

CURRENT BOOKS: From Madhouses to Modern Treatments Allan Bernstein, MD Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry, Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, Little, Brown, 352 pages (2015). As a history of a major medical specialty and a major public health problem, Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman’s Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry raises some disturbing questions. The field of psychiatry […]

Dr. Rosen: How is the Presidential campaign coming along? Is Donald Trump still putting his foot in his mouth? Did ISIS really get started by Pres Obama and Sec’y Clinton? Dr. Edwards: I think Mr Pence put that away nicely today. Dr. Ruth: How’s that? I must have missed it. Dr. Edwards: Mr Pence outlined […]