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		<title>Emergency Medicine Goes Down the Rabbit Hole in the Evergreen State</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just when American healthcare system seems so dysfunctional that it seems impossible to imagine how it could be screwed up further, a decision is made that restores one’s faith in the creativity of Man.  But before you run out of guesses as to which particular decision we’re talking about today, we’ll just blurt it out.  We are referring to last week’s decision by Washington State<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2012/02/emergency-medicine-goes-down-the-rabbit-hole-in-the-evergreen-state/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>America’s Higher Ed System Hits the Road to Hellth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent weeks, President Obama offered to do for higher education what the government has done for healthcare: become more heavily involved in deciding who gets what, and at what price. “In his Jan. 24 State of the Union address, the president warned colleges and universities that he was putting them ‘on notice,’ adding: ‘If you can&#8217;t stop tuition from going up, the funding you<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2012/02/americas-higher-ed-system-hits-the-road-to-hellth/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Will Medicare Bother to Learn Anything from Its Own Demonstrations? &#8211; Part II</title>
		<link>http://roadtohellth.com/2012/01/will-medicare-bother-to-learn-anything-from-its-own-demonstrations-part-ii/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=will-medicare-bother-to-learn-anything-from-its-own-demonstrations-part-ii</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our last Road to Hellth post, we looked two of the four ”value-based payment” demonstrations whose results were recently reported by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). These demonstrations are important because they represent the best thinking that Medicare can muster with respect to how to reduce healthcare costs and make things all better on the American healthcare front.  In particular, they represent the Affordable<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2012/01/will-medicare-bother-to-learn-anything-from-its-own-demonstrations-part-ii/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Will Medicare Bother to Learn Anything from Its Own Demonstrations? &#8211; Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released two reports summarizing the results of 14 major demonstration projects aimed at improving the “quality” and/or reducing the cost of care provided to Medicare patients. These fell into two broad categories: disease management and care coordination demonstrations, and “value-based payment” projects.  Both types of projects are of enormous importance to the future of the Affordable Care<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2012/01/will-medicare-bother-to-learn-anything-from-its-own-demonstrations-part-i/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Desperately Seeking Quality</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month a physician social networking website asked its subscribers to weigh in on a survey supplied by a “client” who was looking for some help with a perplexing problem.  We’re forbidden under the website’s terms of use from publishing the exact post, but it went something like this: The Affordable Care (“ObamaCare”) Act requires Medicare to expand its “Physician Compare” Directory tool.  This<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2012/01/desperately-seeking-quality/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Medical Staffing Miseries and Crony Capitalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few weeks we’ve spent an inordinate amount of time trying to help physician colleagues hire replacement employees after theirs were poached by the large health system that rents office space to them.  It seems that the supposedly religion-based mega-combination health insurer, hospital chain, medical buildings owner, clinical laboratory and purchaser of physician practices had recently decided to open a large new outpatient<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2012/01/medical-staffing-miseries-and-crony-capitalism/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>A Review of Overhauling America&#8217;s Healthcare Machine by Gov. Richard D. Lamm</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. health care “system” has been built up over the last 60 years during the most massive transfer of resources, outside of war, in the nation’s history. U.S. medical practice patterns, U.S. medical ethics, U.S. public expectations have all been formed during a time when health care spending has had an average growth of two-and-a-half times the rate of inflation.]]></description>
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		<title>Overhauling Healthcare: Medical Rules, Regulations and the &#8220;Basic Speed Law&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. David Gelber who writes the Heard in the OR blog recently had a must-read post published on KevinMD entitled &#8220;Rigid regulation can become detrimental to patient care.&#8221;  Anyone and everyone involved in or affected by America&#8217;s healthcare system should read this article.  It clearly illustrates exactly the type of good intentions that are sending patient, doctors and nurses further and further down the Road<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2011/12/overhauling-healthcare-medical-regulations-should-follow-the-basic-speed-law/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>It’s Time to Mass-Produce Preventive Medicine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 01:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over and over on these pages, we make the point that, for the most part, medical care is and should be something that is custom-tailored to each individual.  Different people have different genetics, anatomies, physiology, personalities, preferences and financial circumstances.  As long as they are willing to bear the financial weight of their decisions, there is no reason why the healthcare services offered to them<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2011/12/it%e2%80%99s-time-to-mass-produce-preventive-medicine/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Why Does the Cost of Healthcare Keep Going Up?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not long ago, the News Director at 1110 KBND radio in Bend, Oregon asked us a simple question: &#8220;Why does the cost of healthcare keep going up?&#8221;  Initially it seemed that the answer should be perfectly obvious.  After all, hasn&#8217;t everyone been keeping up with what&#8217;s been going on in the Obama Administration and in Congress and in the states and with the healthcare reform<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2011/11/why-does-the-cost-of-healthcare-keep-going-up/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>America&#8217;s War On Doctors</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his 2009 address to the American Medical Association, President Obama famously declared that under his healthcare reform plan, “If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor.  Period.” What he failed to mention is that soon many Americans will be lucky to find a doctor to care for them at all.  The Association of American Medical Colleges estimates that there<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2011/11/americas-war-on-doctors/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>The Burden of Federal Paperwork In Healthcare</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We end up talking about bureaucracy a great deal on this blog because, well, there is an awful lot of bureaucracy involved in America’s highly regulated healthcare system.  It doesn’t really matter whether you’re a doctor or a patient, there are always a ridiculous number of forms to fill out, reports to complete, questionnaires to complete or pages to sign. How many pages are there? <br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2011/11/the-burden-of-federal-paperwork-in-healthcare/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Mediocrity in Pursuit of Quality Is No Virtue</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 03:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not long ago, we took a critical look at the, er, “evidence” behind the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) (and CMS/Medicare’s) new policy regarding hospital readmissions within 30 days of discharge.  For those who may have missed the excitement, these HHS/Medicare policies mandate dole out financial punishments to hospitals that are found to have a higher-than-average percentage of patients with certain diagnoses (heart<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2011/10/mediocrity-in-pursuit-of-quality-is-no-virtue/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Stealing The ER – Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our last post, we looked a new initiative devised by the Health Care Authority of the state of Washington, in which Medicaid patient who abused the Emergency Room would be punished by having their excess ER visits paid for by doctors, hospitals and those purchasing private health insurance.  It is a bold plan, and roughly the moral equivalent of tossing a pile of warm<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2011/10/stealing-the-er-part-ii/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Stealing The ER – Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently the state of Washington announced that it had had it with paying for the Emergency Room (ER) abuses of its Medicaid patients. “The state Health Care Authority sent letters to patients on Medicaid, the federal-state health insurance for the poor, warning them the government wouldn’t pay for their nonemergency treatment after three visits. The agency is trying to save an estimated $72 million in<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2011/10/stealing-the-er-part-1/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon’s Healthcare “Transformation”</title>
		<link>http://roadtohellth.com/2011/09/oregon%e2%80%99s-healthcare-%e2%80%9ctransformation%e2%80%9d/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=oregon%25e2%2580%2599s-healthcare-%25e2%2580%259ctransformation%25e2%2580%259d</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who follow such things, this post is a slightly longer and more pointed version of one that we recently did for the Cascade Policy Institute. Here’s a question for you.  If you take quietly take thousands of Oregonians hostage and then release with great fanfare, does that make you a kidnapper or hero?  The answer, of course, depends upon whether anyone remembers that<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2011/09/oregon%e2%80%99s-healthcare-%e2%80%9ctransformation%e2%80%9d/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>ICD-10: Medical Voyeurism or Just A Lust for Complexity?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 20:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were going to write about ICD-10 anyway, but a recent article in The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) beat us to it.  But first, what is ICD-10?  Those of you who may not be fluent in Medispeak deserve a 60 second explanation. “ICD” is the abbreviation for the International Classification of Diseases.  It’s a tabulated and coded compendium of the various things that can<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2011/09/icd-10-medical-voyeurism-or-just-a-lust-for-complexity/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Could Exporting Medical Malpractice Attorneys to China Help the Trade Deficit?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 07:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You’ll frequently find America’s doctors whining about how bad they have it with high malpractice insurance rates, a legal system that rarely dispenses justice and the continual need to practice defensive medicine.  Well to that we say “Pshaw!”  Let them practice in China for a bit, and they’ll be inviting their local plaintiff attorney over for drinks and a friendly game of Twister®. Despite becoming<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2011/09/could-exporting-medical-malpractice-attorneys-to-china-help-the-trade-deficit/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Grand Rounds At The Covert Rationing Blog This Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of you who are returning to work bright-eyed and bushy-tailed after your Labor Day holiday this week, should definitely take the time to peruse the Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! edition of healthcare blog Grand Rounds this week.  It&#8217;s a heartily entertaining survey of some of the most interesting recent posts in the healthcare blogosphere.  You&#8217;ll find it only at Dr. Rich&#8217;s Covert Rationing Blog.]]></description>
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		<title>More on Medicare&#8217;s Readmission Penalties</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our last post, we took a look at the new penalties that Medicare will levy on hospitals who commit the crime of readmitting patients with certain diseases within 30 days of discharge.  We were astonished to find that Medicare and Obama Administration did not seem to apply any sort of evidence-based criteria when deciding upon the need for this program, nor did they bother<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2011/08/more-on-medicares-readmission-penalties/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Medicare Is Going to Penalize Readmissions. Is This Evidence-Based Regulation?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 01:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You’ve heard of evidence-based medicine, right?  Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is the “good” medicine.  Ideally these are things that clinicians do that have randomized, double-blind controlled trials behind them.  Everything else, which is in reality almost everything, is the “bad” medicine.  But don’t take our word for it.  Here’s what President Obama said in a press briefing on July 22nd, 2010: “Part of what we want<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2011/08/medicare-is-going-to-penalize-readmissions-is-this-evidence-based-regulation/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Exactly Who Are Hospitals Serving With Their Formularies?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 07:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here at the Road to Hellth, we’re normally all for letting the free market work whenever possible, but it’s important to remember that for markets to work properly there are certain pre-conditions.  First, the economic relationship between businesses and their customers has to be relatively clear.  For example, when a patient goes to a hospital, exactly who is the hospital supposed to be serving?  Is<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2011/08/exactly-who-are-hospitals-serving-with-their-formularies/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Medical Blog Grand Rounds This Week Is At Dr. Pullen&#8217;s Place</title>
		<link>http://roadtohellth.com/2011/08/medical-blog-grand-rounds-this-week-is-at-dr-pullens-place/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=medical-blog-grand-rounds-this-week-is-at-dr-pullens-place</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 05:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grand Rounds this week is being hosted by the esteemed Dr. Pullen.com&#8217;s medical blog.  Be sure to check out Grand Rounds Vol. 7 # 47 to see the best medical blog posts of the past ten days!]]></description>
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		<title>No Recovery?  It’s the Uncertainty, Stupid.  About Healthcare.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8221; Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.&#8221;   &#8211; Edward Coke We were going to write about something completely different for today’s post, but world events have short-circuited that plan.  Instead, we’re going to take America&#8217;s recent credit downgrade, the resulting stock market slide, the double-dip recession we’re experiencing along with a record duration of high<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2011/08/no-recovery-it%e2%80%99s-the-uncertainty-stupid-about-healthcare/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Gonna Wash Those Germs Right Out O&#8217; Your Chair?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We Americans can learn a great deal from our friends in the United Kingdom if we simply take the time to pay attention.  For today’s lesson, we’re most grateful to Dr. Stephanie Dancer, Consultant Microbiologist at the NHS Lanarkshire, and fellow blogger The Ferret Fancier; the former for her work and permission to republish her presentation here, and the latter for bringing this whole thing<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2011/07/gonna-wash-those-germs-right-out-o-your-chair/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>“Shrink Rap”: The Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 00:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the AMA really did have the best interests of physicians in mind and wanted to do something good for patients and physicians, they’d forget about their lousy advertising campaigns and commission a whole line of books just like the newest literary work from the folks over at the Shrink Rap blog, Dinah, ClinkShrink and Roy.  Every specialty could use one.  More on that in<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2011/07/%e2%80%9cshrink-rap%e2%80%9d-the-book-review/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>How Can We Apply “Primum Non Nocere” to Government? – Part III</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 01:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is our third and last post examining the question of whether it’s possible to mitigate the actual harm that government control of healthcare is likely to entail.  In our first post on the topic, we established that government is perfectly capable of botching up just about anything.  In the second post we looked at the rapidly expanding role of unfettered government bureaucracy, as well<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2011/07/how-can-we-apply-%e2%80%9cprimum-non-nocere%e2%80%9d-to-government-%e2%80%93-part-iii/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Fake Patient Program Put on &#8220;Indefinite Hold&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday we posted a description and analysis of the Obama Administration&#8217;s program to have contractors posing as patients call medical offices in order to determine whether doctors were discriminating against the poor and elderly in their scheduling practices.  Well today the New York Times is reporting that the initiative has been placed in &#8220;indefinite hold&#8221;.  This means that HHS will not say whether or when<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2011/06/fake-patient-program-put-on-indefinite-hold/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Of Spies and Stratagems*</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, pop quiz!  It’s a multiple choice question. “When I see or call my doctor, I want him/her to be:” Suspicious Distracted about money issues Resentful and angry at the world Thinking about retiring or changing careers All of the above None of the above If you answered A through E, you probably work for the Obama administration or the Department of Health and Human<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2011/06/of-spies-and-stratagems/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>EMR Vendors: The New Drug Companies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 05:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One good way to tell which vendors are swimming in profits and political influence is by watching who’s sponsoring medical education conferences.  In the old days (nearly ten years ago) these would have been the “Big Pharma” drug companies.  Flush with cash from newly developed brand-name drugs that lowered cholesterol, treated diabetes, suppressed the immune system, grew hair and corrected erectile dysfunction, major manufacturers like<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2011/06/emr-vendors-the-new-drug-companies/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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