On Health Care Renewal, we have been decrying American health care dysfunction since 2004 (look here). For years, the US consistently has h...
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How to Reduce the Conflicts of Interests in Health Care in a Country Whose Leader Has Flagrant, Unconstitutional Conflicts of Interest?
Introduction: Conflicts of Interest in Health Care Our first post about conflicts of interest appeared on December 22, 2004, and was about ...
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Our Fifteenth Anniversary - Welcome Back to Health Care Renewal
Today is the fifteenth anniversary of Health Care Renewal. As a reminder of where we began, below is a re-post of our welcome to the blog. W...
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Health Care Dysfunction Makes it to the Presidential Debate
In last night's debate which included leading candidates from the Democratic Party for its presidential nomination, as reported by Mothe...
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In addition to it being time for patients to refuse use of EHR's in their care, is it time for clinicians to refuse forced use of same? - "Association Between Perceived Electronic Health Record Usability and Professional Burnout Among US Physicians"
At my Nov. 12, 2019 post "Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Secretly Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans - Time to Refus...
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Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Secretly Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans - Time to Refuse Use Of EMR's In Your Healthcare?
I have long written that EMR technology in the hands of the wrong people will create exceptionally adverse outcomes. clinically speaking. T...
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The Managers' Coup d'Etat in Health Care Appears Complete - a Study of Top Health Care "Influencers"
Introduction: the Managers' Coup d'Etat As we wrote in 2006... in 1988, Alain Enthoven, an original member and driving force of the ...
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How Can We Promote Evidence-Based Medicine Under a Regime that Insists on Its Power to Say "2+2=5"?
Introduction: Evidence-Based Medicine We have consistently advocated for Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM), which is about medical-decision maki...
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Circular Logic - A Revolving Door Update
We have actually managed to go for three months without posting on the revolving door. Since then, however, we have accumulated a sufficient...
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Government Increasingly Promoting Sectarianism-Based Health Policy
Traditionally, physicians and other health care professionals are taught to put the care of the individual patient first. Patients deserve ...
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The Rise of the Suits - First Hints of Managerialism in Health Care
Tom Mueller just published a monumental work on whistleblowing, Crisis of Conscience - Whistleblowing the an Age of Fraud The introductory c...
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Marketers Want Even More Control Over Hospitals
Once, a long time ago, in a galaxy far away, doctors and hospitals did no marketing, and pharmaceutical marketing was restricted to health c...
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Corporatism Raises More Dander, but Here's a Salve
What raises more of our dander in these pages than anything else? Recent posts, occasionally mine but especially those from FIRM's Presi...
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Corporatism Raises More Dander, but Here's a Salve
What raises more of our dander in these pages than anything else? Recent posts, occasionally mine but especially those from FIRM's Presi...
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Who Advocates For Surprise Medical Billing? - Private Equity Hides Behind Physicians' White Coats
Background: Mysterious Advocacy of Surprise Medical Bills The issue of surprise medical bills has gotten a lot of public attention in the la...
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Broken Trust: the Adulteration of Ranitidine Revealed
Adulterated Ranitidine, and Before that, Valsartan, Irbesartan and Losartan Another case of drug adulteration has just been made public. Pe...
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"Overshadowed by the Large Amount of Money in Play" - Sale of Hahnemann Residency Program as a Financial Asset Approved by Bankruptcy Judge
Introduction: the Bankruptcy of Hahnemann, the Selling of the Residency Program, Including Residents, as an Asset As we discussed here, the ...
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Johnson and Johnson's "Landmark" Opioid Settlement, or Just Another Chapter in the Story of Corporate Management's Impunity?
Introduction: our Chronic Narcotics Problem Narcotic addiction has plagued human societies for hundreds of years. [Print, 1880, opium den, L...
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August, 2019, Update: How to Challenge Health Care Corruption Under a Corrupt Regime?
After a lull, a new report on conflicts of interest and corruption permeating the Trump administration has appeared, prompting us to again c...
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A Sale of One Residency Program - the Commercialization of Health Care and now Residents Treated Like "Assets"
We recently posted (here and here) about the decline and impending closure of a once major urban safety-net teaching hospital, the Hahnemann...
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Just Another Small Health Care Scam... the Trump Network and its Bogus Diagnostic Tests and Unproven Vitamin Treatments Resurfaces
Introduction On Health Care Renewal, we frequently discuss deceptive marketing schemes designed to sell tests and treatments whose benefits ...
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"Like Watching a Slow Train Crash": AHERF to Hahnemann & Drexel, Part Deux
The Hahnemann Tragedy: Not All That Anechoic, But How Relevant Anyway? There are so many health policy narratives right now entering new pha...
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A Stealth Health Policy Advocate Goes Through the Revolving Door ... Now to Chair the White House Council of Economic Advisers
In 2017, we noted that President Trump had appointed a member of his Council of Economic Advisers who previously was a master health care co...
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Another Echo of the Fall of the House of AHERF: Hahnemann University Hospital to Close Its Doors, Stranding Patients, Leaving Trainees without an Educational Site, and Leaving Staff and Health Care Professionals Unemployed
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. [George Santayana] The impending closure of a big teaching hospital in Philad...
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Making the Revolving Door Great Again: Recent FDA Commissioner Dr Scott Gottlieb Joins the Pfizer Board of Directors
It has been less than six weeks since our last post on the revolving door. That post emphasized cases of the outgoing revolving door, that ...
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Politically Driven Public Health Disinformation - the Latest Examples: Dread Infections, Porn Causing White Male Impotence
It used to be all about the money. We had previously noted deceptive public relations practices, including orchestrated stealth health polic...
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How to Counter Medical/ Health Care/ Public Health Disinformation
It used to be so simple. Yes, we had to cope with deception in marketing. Commercial sponsors of clinical research were known to manipulat...
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That Old Time Revolving Door Keeps Spinning
Traditionally, the American examples we have seen of the revolving door involved people leaving leadership positions in governmental bodies ...
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From "Forced Injections" to "Sorcery," - More Examples of Partisan Ideology and Religious Sectarianism Trumping Evidence in Health Policy and Public Health
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is about medical-decision making based on critical review of the best applicable evidence from clinical resear...
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The New (Ab)normal in Health Care Dysfunction
Introduction: The Issues Ignored by Discusisons of Health Care Reform After the failed attempt to "repeal and replace" the Afforda...
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Why Are We Complicit? A Narrative for Our Era
Why are seemingly good people complicit with bad things? In health care, we have seen seemingly good health care professionals and academic...
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April, 2019, Update: How to Challenge Health Care Corruption Under a Corrupt Regime?
In these last few weeks, the US news has been dominated by the release of a redacted verion of the Mueller report which included extensive e...
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The Rise of Ideologically or Theologically Based Medicine, Public Health, and Health Policy - Recent Examples
I have long been a proponent of evidence-based medicine (EBM), and evidence-based health care, public health, and health policy. EBM, for e...
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The HIV Epidemic, and Now the Measles Outbreak: The Russian Connection
I am old enough to remember having measles as a child, a thoroughly unpleasant experience. Some children had much unhappier results of meas...
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First the NIH Came for the Iranian Born Legal US Resident Scientists
Transparency, honesty, and collaboration are necessary to do science, including biomedical and clinical science right. In the US, the Natio...
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Why Did the Head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Outsource Communications Functions to Private Public Relations Firms? - Ethical and Legal Questions
There is now never a dull moment at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) an agency of the US Department of Health and Human S...
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Despite Public Protestations of of Bipartisanship, Many CEOs of the Largest US Health Care Corporations Appear Partisan, and Mainly Republican
Leaders of big health care organizations clearly are interested in influencing public policy and government regulation in ways that favor th...
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The Transparency International 2018 Corporate Political Engagement Index- Pharma Appears All Too Comfortable with the Revolving Door and Making Opaque Political Contributions
Introduction: Big Organizations, Government Policy and Regulation, and Politics Leaders of big health care organizations clearly are interes...
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For Whom the Door Revolves: Founder and Director of Multiple Biotechnology Companies Became Director of the NCI and Now Nominated to be Acting Commissioner of the FDA
Dr Scott Gottlieb, the first commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) appointed by President Trump, has announced his plans...
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Another Missing Link Discovered: 1969 IRS Rule Change Allowed US Hospitals to Discriminate Among Patients Based on Ability to Pay
Prelude: the Suits in the Elevator Another long night on call of my interniship was over. Having managed to wolf down breakfast and brush m...
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Don't Know Much About Health Care and Public Health: Politicans' and Pundits Unjustified Statements About Causation, Benefits and Risks
A major focus of Health Care Renewal has been problems in leadership and governance of health care organizations, which we believe became ma...
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China Uses DNA to Track Its People, With the Help of American (Yale) Expertise - by a Yale scientist sadly familiar to this author
You saw it here on Healthcare Renewal first. In 2005 and 2007 I'd written the posts: " Academic abuses in biomedicine vs. Indig...
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The Revolving Door Spins Again:
Just because Washington DC is now crazy town does not mean the revolving door has stopped spinning. We have been dutifully accumulating cas...
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How Stupid Do They Think We Are? - Plutocrats Using Logical Fallacies to Defend the Health Care Status Quo
In the early 21st century, the debate about health care reform in the US ramped up. The result ultimately was the Patient Protection and Af...
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Watching the Detectives: Logical Fallacies and Unsubstantiated Claims to Denigrate Investigations of Leaders' Conflicts of Interest and Alleged Corruption
Introduction: Logical Fallacies and Unsubstantiated Claims in Defense of Conflicts of Interest in Health Care We have long been concerned ...
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