Restructuring Health Care

November 16, 2014 No Comments

There has been an increase in chatter about our health care system recently, The Senate held hearings in February on revising Medicare and there have been several comments in JAMA in this vein. The diagram above represents the solution proposed by Michael Porter and Thomas Lee in the Harvard Business Review under the title of “Why Health […]

How we got started

July 18, 2014 No Comments

I studied history before I studied medicine. I learned there that people could respond to a particular challenge in a variety of ways. Medicine tends not to see that way; drugs need to be standard so the 'average' person is who gets treated, but the 'average' person doesn't exist. And our treatments are often based on the wrong [...]

Thank You, Standard and Poor’s

May 27, 2014 No Comments

Thank you Standard and Poor’s for telling us what we already know. Now can we do anything about it? Right now many of us feel a bit like Clark Little as he waited under this breaking wave to get just the right shot. How much of a wipe out is this going to be? In [...]

Explaining our World in Terms of the Quantum Reality

March 7, 2014 No Comments

If you read anything about general science in your spare time you know that physicists are presenting a variety of models as they try to explain our world in terms of the quantum reality that is the ground of our existence; it’s not easy. Most of their models are mathematical and based on a number […]

What’s the WIR

March 7, 2014 No Comments

Could the WIR help us, or Greece, or Spain? Common Sense Medicine is all about resilience, about giving people the information and the power they need to make better decisions. Those decisions are the invisible hand that guides any adaptive system to continued progression and health. And it’s not just healthcare. This article is about […]

What the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street Movements Have in Common, and Why It’s Important

January 23, 2014 No Comments

The Tea Party sees a major problem in the size of government and its incursion, influence, and control into more aspects of our lives than is warranted by the Constitution; they want a smaller less intrusive government. On the other hand those protesting in Wall Street see a problem in the financial sector and the […]

Partisan Politics on a Larger Scale

January 23, 2014 No Comments

As a physician, I am endlessly intrigued by the processes of adaptation that has led to our being on this earth; and I am amazed that these processes show up so dramatically in our differing politics. So for those wishing to think a bit deeper than sound-bites, here’s my two cent’s worth. Bacteria are the […]

Models, Medicine, and Our Future.

January 23, 2014 No Comments

If you read anything about general science in your spare time, you know that physicists are presenting a variety of models as they try to explain our world in terms of the quantum reality that is the ground of our existence, and it’s not easy. Most of their models are mathematical and based on a […]

Coping with Autism

January 23, 2014 No Comments

The first researchers looking into autism decided it was caused by “the refrigerator Mom”. Mothers were cold and withdrawn and didn’t give their children the love and care they needed to develop properly. The outrage of loving and caring mothers put that to rest in short order and we have gone on to look at […]

Alternative Treatment for C. Diff Infections

January 23, 2014 2 Comments

Arizona and the rest of the nation is now plagued with the gut infecting bacteria Clostridium difficile, which most know as C. diff. These bacteria used to grow in our GI tracts when our normal bacteria were damaged by too many antibiotics, but we now have a problem with this bug because it has become […]

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