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Mar
19

Carefully Crafting the Politically Correct Physician

by Dr. Doug Perednia

Pop Quiz:  You’ve just been in a car accident, or been diagnosed with cancer, or struck by lightning, or you’re coming to your doctor’s office as sick as a dog with something you got last week and you haven’t been able to keep anything down for the past 48 hours.  What’s your top priority with respect to what you want your doctors to know?  Do

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Mar
8

Medical Specialty Certification Exams: The Real Scandal

by Dr. Doug Perednia

Note to our readers: This article was recently published on The American Thinker website, where it can be found here.  We’ve added some additional comments at the end of the article based upon reaction to the original, and some additional thoughts and news we’ve had since publication. ——————————————————————————————————————————– Earlier this year, CNN broke the story that generations of dermatologists have been “cheating” on their specialty

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Mar
5

Two Interesting Posts That Mosey Down the Road to Hellth

by Dr. Doug Perednia

Megan McArdle over at The Atlantic is one of our favorite bloggers, as she routinely discusses various practical aspects of combining economics with human behavior.  Megan has apparently committed herself to another project for the next few weeks or months, and has left her blog in the hands of several guest bloggers – a couple of whom often write about healthcare.  Today two of them

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Mar
1

Year After Year, Medicare Keeps Flushing Perfectly Good Kidneys (and Dollars) Down the Drain

by Dr. Doug Perednia

As most of our readers know, Medicare is the government-sponsored health insurance program for the elderly and disabled.  What many Americans may not realize, however, is that Medicare has, by law, for many years been unusually and selectively dedicated to the care and feeding of kidney function.  This leads us to the question for today: when our elected leaders pass laws about the coverage of

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Feb
24

Will the Ignorant Be Around Even Longer Than the Poor?

by Dr. Doug Perednia

For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good…                                                                                         – Mark 14:7 We’ll be the first to admit that there are many, many people who are more observant, eloquent and articulate than we are.  Many of those people are physicians.  So when one of them speaks up on an important subject that

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  • Dr. Perednia on PJTV: ObamaCare Is Sick: Doctor Diagnoses the Illness Behind Obama's Health Care Law
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    Douglas A. Perednia explains that improving the efficiency of the system might be the only way to prevent a meltdown of the larger economy and restore growth in the standard of living.
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