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• 	Scott Gottlieb Gets It Right on Obama Healthcare Today's Wall Street Journal has commentary from Dr. Scott Gottlieb on the Obama healthcare plan I have been blogging about. He notes how successful Federally Qualified Health clinics have been in Chicago. "those clinics have been hampered by... 09-02-2008, 12:44 PM by EMDoc to Emergency Medicine Doc Filed under: Medical Malpractice, Obama, Health Plan

• 	Marie Coco - Health Care Fight 8/12/08 Marie Coco, syndicated columnist with The Washington Post, echoed my sentiments regarding the health care crisis . Mentioning that if it was not for the price of gas, the real estate market crumbling, and the credit and banking crisis, healthcare... 08-14-2008, 12:22 PM by EMDoc to Emergency Medicine Doc

• 	Emergency Departments - Your Primary Care Provider In a front page article by the San Francisco Chronicle , they describe a report by the CDC, that reveals what we in Emergency Medicine know all too well. We have become the primary care providers of the community. To quote the article: "The likely... 08-07-2008, 7:39 AM by EMDoc to Emergency Medicine Doc Filed under: News, Obama, Health Plan, McCain

• 	McCain's Health Plan for America Senator McCain's Health Care plan says that the problem with healthcare is that it is too expensive and that there are 47 million who are uninsured. The McCain plan wants it to be easier for families to get the insurance they need. This will be done... 08-01-2008, 12:25 PM by EMDoc to Emergency Medicine Doc Filed under: Money, News, Medical Malpractice, Health Plan, McCain

• 	Barack Obama's Plan for a Healthy America I wanted to devote some time to my thoughts on the presidential candidates' healthcare plans as they are currently written. I will start today with a review of the Obama plan and then in a subsequent entry the McCain plan. To quote the Obama plan... 07-29-2008, 10:31 AM by EMDoc to Emergency Medicine Doc Filed under: Medical Malpractice, Obama, Health Plan, Bush Tax Cuts

• 	ACEP Seattle Well the ACEP Scientific Assembly is coming up in October. You had better hurry and register now, Seattle is a fun city and everyone wants to be there, especially after the New Orleans convention last year. It is a chance to recharge your emergency medicine... 08-21-2007, 5:33 PM by EMDoc to Emergency Medicine Doc

• 	4 Hour Antibiotic Window Little Effect on Survival in Pneumonia Most docs have recognized the ridiculous science behind the Quality rules requiring antibiotics in Community Aquired Pneumonia within 4 hours of arrival at the hospital. Finally, there is a study from our home NJ Medical School in Newark, NJ that reveals... 08-01-2007, 6:41 AM by EMDoc to Emergency Medicine Doc Filed under: News, Other Medical, Quality Measures, Pneumonia