Topic: health care

I’d argue that America has never adequately addressed its own problems with addiction, which have been with us in one form or another since before we became a nation.

Too many doctors worry about “those people” showing up in the waiting room. They don’t particularly want to be known as a resource for the addicted.

I know how often the quest for business success has in the past overtaken and even overwhelmed the quest to deliver good services.

The larger issue is that most drug pricing is still market-driven, or as my endocrinologist puts it, “they charge whatever they can get away with charging.”

There are just too many different forms of manipulation for any of us to be uniformly good at identifying them on the fly.

Modern healthcare, for all its spectacular innovation, still lacks a genuinely safe, effective remedy for certain types of pain.

With the increased risk of overdose from fentanyl and other synthetics, the path to recovery may be even bumpier, in terms of repeat emergencies. The folks in the Business Office would rather avoid that.

There’s no shortage of stories among nurses and doctors about a friend or family member who went through treatment and relapsed, perhaps many times.

A doc who’s watching the clock is far less likely to expend valuable time chatting with a patient.

Medicare spending on compounded topical drugs has surged 3400% since 2006.