The Washington Post published just the latest in a growing genre, short-term retrospectives on how the Trump administration horrendously mi...
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All the President's Disinformationists
The coronavirus pandemic has been accompanied by a pandemic of disinformation, sometimes called the "infodemic." In the US, while...
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Update: State of Play in US Health Care Dysfunction Prior to the Coronavirus Pandemic
Introduction: the Sorry History of US Health Care DysfunctionWe have been talking about health care dysfunction for a very long time, start...
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The President Baselessly Accuses Physicians of Inflating COVID-19 Case Rates for Financial Gain. Will Health Care Leaders Finally Challenge Him?
Introduction: the Trump Administration's Attacks on Whistleblowers A major component of US (and global) health care dysfunction has been...
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Adding (Corrupt Financial) Insult to (Coronavirus Pandemic) Injury
We have frequently discussed the voluminous evidence that President Trump, his family and his cronies have many more conflicts of interest, ...
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For Coronavirus Pandemic Management, In Johnson and Johnson and Pfizer Trump Trusts: Public Health at Risk ... Due to Corruption?
In 2003 we found that health care professionals felt one reason for US health care dysfunction was that it was increasingly "dominated ...
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Attempts to Transform the CDC into a Propaganda Outlet and the Silence of the Health Care Leaders
First they came for the CDC staffers, but I was not a CDC staffer so I did nothing...Then they came for me. And there was no one left to spe...
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Tales From The Telly
Tales From The Telly 1. Introduction. This post might just as easily be entitled "tales from the crypt," so far down the netherwor...
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President Trump and Surrogates Continue to Hold Campaign Events Enabling Spread of the Coronavirus: Had Enough Yet?
While the US continues to suffer from one of the worst outbreaks of the novel coronavirus pandemic to beset any developed nation (look here)...
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Will US Health Care Leadership Challenge President Donald Trump's Propagation of Coronavirus Disinformation, a Major Source of the "Infodemic"?
Introduction: The Plight of Health Care Professionals Who Challenge the "Infodemic" The coronavirus pandemic has been accompanied ...
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Next Installment: How Can We Fight the Coronavirus Pandemic Under Political Leaders Who Enable the Spread of the Virus?
While the US continues to suffer from one of the worst outbreaks of the novel coronavirus pandemic to beset any developed nation, as we have...
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The Remarkable Case of the CEO of the Brigham and Women's Hospital Who Renounced a Major Conflict of Interest
Introduction; a Conflict of Interest Affecting the Trial of Moderna COVID-19 VaccineOn July 17, 2020, the Brigham and Women's Hospital, ...
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Did the Conflicts of Interest Generated by President Trump's Ownership of the Trump Organization Cause His Enthusiasm for the Premature Reopening of the Economy, and its Deadly Results?
Introduction: Trump's Personal Incentives to Push Rapid Reopening Back in March, 2020, we posted about the possibility that President Tr...
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How Can We Fight the Coronavirus Pandemic Under Political Leaders Who Enable the Spread of the Virus?
The Trump administration has written the book about how not to prepare for a pandemic, and how to mismanage the response once one occurs. W...
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Parlous Times—so Why Is My Dander Down?
Yes, these are parlous times, my friends, with all sorts of threat levels bouncing up and down and up again to all sorts of new heights. I...
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Do Cry for Those in Arizona: What Happens When Polticians Disregard Health Care and Public Health Professionals During a Pandemic
Introduction: Health Care Professionals Vilified After They Caution Against Premature Reopening During the Pandemic As we discussed in April...
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Health Care Corporate Leaders Have Pledged Their Support for Racial Justice and Harmony: Will They Renounce Their Previous Support of a Very Racially Divisive Politician?
Leaders of big health care organizations frequently profess their social responsibility, and traditionally have avoided political partisansh...
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More Attempts to Intimidate Health Care Professionals Who Try to Educate About Coronavirus
Introduction Physicians and other health care professionals are sworn to put patients' interests ahead of all else, and to uphold the in...
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Extremists, Guns, Militias, Threats of Violence - Is This Any Way to Debate Public Health and Pandemic Management?
In April, the rising curve of COVID-19 cases in the US started to flatten in response to fairly strict social distancing and collective publ...
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Will Reality Intrude on Trump's Ability to "Laugh in the Face of This Disease?"
Introduction: The Coronavirus Pandemic versus Trumpian Denial of Reality In the absence of a safe and effective vaccine or curative treatmen...
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"No Skin in the Game" - Does Trump's Personal Insulation from the Coronavirus Pandemic Enable His Failure to Protect the Country From It?
Introduction: Very Important Patients Most codes of ethics for health care professionals stress that taking the best possible care of each i...
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At the "Reopen America" Protests, Vilifying Health Care Professionals to Protect the New Robber Barons
After the Trump administration's delayed and ineffectual efforts at containment failed (see relevant coverage here, here, here, here), t...
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The ACP Leadership Stands Up to Health Care Dysfunction: A Good Beginning, but the Problems May be Even Bigger than They Realize
Introduction: Health Care Dysfunction Has Been With Us for a Long Time The American College of Physicians (ACP) is the largest physician spe...
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A Pandemic of Silence: Hospital Managers Intimidate and Punish Coronavirus Whistle-Blowers
Under cover of a pandemic, managers and executives of hospitals, hospital systems, and other organizations that provide direct patient care ...
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COVID-19: It's Now Time for Health IT Vendors to Traffick in Patient Data
In numerous posts at this blog, I've brought up the issue of hospitals and health IT sellers extracting and exchanging/selling (ostensib...
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During the Pandemic, Follow the Money: Hospitals and Health Care Provider Organizations Put Money Ahead of Clinician and Patient Safety, Public's Health
As the coronavirus pandemic continues its relentless course, we see many examples of selflessness and courage. They come from huge numbers o...
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The Ultimate Conflict of Interest: Trump Organization Revenue vs Lives Lost to Coronavirus
Introduction: Conflicts of Interest and the Trump Administration We have been discussing the pervasiveness of conflicts of interest in healt...
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COVID-19: Could We Have Been More Ready? We now see reports of how the US is short of either masks, gowns, doctors, hospital beds, ventilato...
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Guest Post: Coronavirus and the Finger of G-d
Health Care Renewal presents a guest post from Dr Michael Fine, a writer, community organizer, and family physician. He is the chief health ...
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The Mother of All Mission-Hostile Management: During the Coronavirus Pandemic Trump Shows He is the Enemy of the Public's Health
Introduction: Health Care Dysfunction We have been talking about health care dysfunction for a very long time, starting with a publication i...
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How Threats to Health Care Professionals' Core Values Lead to Moral Injury
Introduction: Threats to Core Values In the late 1990s, my colleagues and I started noting a rising tide of what we then called physician di...
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The Virus This Time: Ill-Informed, Incompetent Leadership Enabling Suppression of Free Speech, Intimidation of Whistleblowers, Propaganda and Disinformation
Unfortunately, the rapid progression of coronavirus is providing a demonstration of the dysfunction, and worse, that can be produced by bad ...
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Rising Tide of Disinformation about Coronavirus: the Roles of Ideologues, Quacks, Russians, and US Politicians
Introduction: Propaganda and Disinformation in Health Care We used to write about propaganda and disinformation used to promote health care ...
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What the Heck Happened to Surprise Billing Legislation? (Or, it’s never too late for the lobbyists to win.)
With constituents pressing for something to remedy unexpected liabilities incurred from “surprise” medical bills, it was expected that surpr...
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The Big Spin Out: 2020 Revovling Door Update
In 2020, cases of the revolving door accumulated quickly. The Old School Outgoing Revolving Door Let us begin with cases of the old fashio...
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Cybernetic Opioid Pushers: EHR vendor Practice Fusion to Pay $145 Million to Resolve Criminal and Civil Investigations
Considering the devastating and deadly opioid problems in this country, this news release from DOJ describes particularly despicable behavio...
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Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index 2019: Political Corruption in the US Worsens, and Results are Largely Anechoic
Transparency International has just released its 2019 version of the Corruption Perceptions Index. This version emphasized public sector co...
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Who Owns, and Who is Accountable for the New US For-Profit Medical Schools?
Mysteries still abound in the not so wonderful world of health care dysfunction, so once again, quick, the game's afoot... The current m...
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The Risks of Attending an Offshore Medical School: Students at Offshore Medical Schools Killed or Injured by Gas Explosions
US and Canadian medical education has a peculiar gray zone. A substantial proportion of US and at least some Canadian doctors have received...
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