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The Miracle Money Making Vest
For the past fifteen years Zoll Medical has done a remarkable job selling their wearable defibrillator and has certainly created a perfect name for it: The LifeVest. Too many local news agencies, who...
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Selling Ranexa: A Prescription for Profiteering?
This is not an attempt to place blame nor to suggest that some of the physicians I allude to have done anything illegal. It is my review and inside story of how Pharma, sometimes using manipulation,...
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A Visit to the Emergency Room – $$$
Often at lunch I listen to personal stories from other physicians. On occasion that gives me the impetus to go off and write about it. The following is about an unsuccessful attempt by a doctor and his...
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Cheating the Gold Standard in Drug Trials
Randomized control trials (RCT) are complex and very expensive studies required by regulatory agencies, in this case the FDA, before a prescription drug is allowed to be touted for its benefits and...
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A Dark Cloud Still Lingers Over Sunshine Act
George Orwell, the inventor of the Ministry of Truth, could not have coined a more biting and sarcastic title than the Sunshine Act. With the advance of the Affordable Care Act the Physician Payments...
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An Emergency Room Visit: A Game of Chance
Unfortunately, your first encounter with a hospital is very often in the emergency department or, as it is more familiarly known, the emergency room. You may have a broken arm or a bad cut, you may...
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Brisdelle: New Menopause Drug or Alchemy?
In 2013, the FDA finally approved a drug without estrogen for the treatment of menopausal symptoms. When compared to placebo, a study shows that Brisdelle significantly diminished the number of hot...
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Throwing Away Billions: Our Broken Healthcare
If you blame Obamacare for the awful defects in our healthcare system, you are indeed naïve, since any cost-effectiveness or fairness in our system disintegrated long before Barack Obama, or even...
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What Televangelists & Alternative Medicine Proponents Have in Common
To the skeptical, Andrew Weil, Mehmet Oz, Joe Mercola, and Deepak Chopra, have an unsavory commonality with people like Jimmy Swaggart, Benny Hinn, and “The Reverend” Jim Bakker. They all offer tales...
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How to Charge 40 Billion Dollars for Nothing
In 2002, Merck Labs received FDA approval for the use of their soon-to–be blockbuster drug; a drug that has since given Merck more than $40,000,000,000 (40 billion dollars) in sales. But with all the...
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Say No To RAPAFLO!
A patient came to me recently with a prescription for Rapaflo, given to him by his urologist. He was told not to fill it until he reviewed the medication and its risks with me, his heart doctor. I told...
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A Hospital Too Far
Involuntary Manslaughter: Manslaughter resulting from the failure to perform a legal duty expressly required to safeguard human life, from the commission of an unlawful act not constituting a felony,...
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An Epidemic of Unnecessary Heart Procedures
Are some American hospitals risking the heath and even the lives of their patients in order to garner greater profits? A recent review published in January, 2014, in a journal from the American Heart...
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Heart Disease and NSAIDS: A Recipe for Disaster
Within a few days of taking a prescribed anti-inflammatory (NSAID), a patient with previously stable heart failure was lying in an ICU clinging to life with severe congestive heart failure (CHF) and...
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Big Pharma: What Have You Done for Me Lately?
A drug has been developed that is a true miracle of modern pharmacology. I say this because it can reduce deaths for patients with Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) as much as a ten-thousand- dollar...
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Obamacare: What About Dental Health?
In the words of the American Dental Association: Taking care of your teeth and gums isn’t just about preventing cavities or bad breath. The mouth is a gateway into your body’s overall health. And since...
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The Best Healthcare System in the World?
After the death of a friend, Mr. Brown (not his real name) decided to make a trip to his local cardiologist for a stress test. Mr. Brown, a 68-year-old man, belonged to one of those managed Medicare...
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Creating Demand: Direct to Consumer Drug Ads
In a recent interview for a European television station, I listened to the staff laugh at how “the fools” in America allow Big Pharma to advertise their billion dollar prescription drugs directly to...
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Pushing Drugs: Testosterone and Big Pharma
The questionnaire below is supplied by Abbvie labs, the makers of Androgel. Look it over. According to this quiz, just about every man I know could have “Low T.” They imply that there are millions who...
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Hospitals Scramble to Balance Budgets
With reduced state subsides, many non-profit hospitals are no longer awash in cash and are scrambling to find a way to meet their budget goals. In the past few weeks I have been approached by a number...
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