How to Manage Insulin-Dependent Diabetes on the Cheap (and do it well)
Not long ago, I wrote an entry about the extraordinarily high costs of insulin. What I didn’t do in that entry was to provide an approach to therapy that could…
Read moreWhy Does Insulin Cost So Much? Did I Answer The Question Posed in My Last Entry?
First, I apologize for the long hiatus between entries. I have had trouble finding anything worth writing about; it has been mostly a rehash of what we already know. I…
Read moreWhy Does Insulin Cost So Much?
At 11 o’clock on the morning of Monday, January 23, 1922, a young Canadian boy, Leonard Thompson, made history. He had been diagnosed with diabetes, which at that time was…
Read moreHIPAA: Facts Versus Fiction
There was a very interesting article in the NYT about 6 weeks ago (Tuesday, July 21. 2015, p D2) about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, widely know as…
Read moreAre The High Costs Of Diabetes Care Reasonable?
FYI: There is a very interesting (and long) article in the NYT today that is must reading if you are wondering why medical care costs so much these days. The…
Read moreHealth care costs: why do some drugs cost so much?
I read an interesting article in the NYT today, entitled “Lawmakers attack cost of new hepatitis drug,” written by Andrew Pollack. The article was about a new drug used to…
Read moreWhat’s in a Number? Part 2
A few days ago, I wrote an entry about the fiasco surrounding the new cholesterol guidelines recommended by the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American College of Cardiology (ACC). …
Read moreWhat’s in a Number? Random Thoughts About the New Cholesterol Guidelines
If you haven’t heard about the new cholesterol guidelines published last week by the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American College of Cardiology (ACC), you could not have been listening…
Read moreCan’t Understand How the New Health Care Law Works?
On October 1, 2013, it became possible to sign up for a health insurance plan on the health care exchanges as part of the Affordable Care Act or ACA (aka ObamaCare). …
Read moreThe US Health Care System Is Killing Us: Do Physicians Have A Moral Imperative To Fix Things?
Over the past few years, I have written a fair number of entries about the US health care system, but I am always uneasy when I “stray” from specific endocrinology…
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