Emergency Medical Doctor

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 state and federal regulations that try to promote "fairness" in our ...

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 cause is there are just fewer and fewer primary care physicians," he said. ...

  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:   "...the Obama plan will save a typical American ...