Health is more than about medicine, as taught to us by…ApplePay
My first transaction. Just a pair of vanilla cones, easily walked off / not to worry. The day ApplePay was released to the world, I happened to be…
Category: Opinion
My Business Card Doesn’t Have a Job Title on It
I’m not one to post listicles (see below), but… My business card has not had a job title on it since 2008. Things started out that way because…
Just Read: Can peer grading be made to work in MOOCs? Can it work for doctors?
Piech C, Huang J, Chen Z, et al. Tuned Models of Peer Assessment in MOOCs. 2013 MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are slightly under fire these days because…
Rebranding Climate Change as a Public Health Issue (what it has always been)
Rebranding Climate Change as a Public Health Issue | TIME.com. Go Gary Cohen! medical professionals … serve as the hubs of education for raising community awareness about the…
Why I’m going to Capital TransPride this weekend
Short answer: because I and my fellow physicians went into medicine to support the ability of every human being to achieve their life goals.* *see my note at…
Asking about sex affirmation surgery – a review of the numbers
Survey – should medicare pay for sex-change (italics by me) surgery – In one of the responses there’s an enlightening back of the napkin calculation of the potential…
Video review: How Doctors Get Paid : KhanAcademy
I found this KhanAcademy video linked from the (excellent) Thedacare Center for Healthcare Value blog. Unfortunately, I don’t think this video is that excellent. Partially because of the format,…
Thou Shalt Not Stand Idly By – Yet our health care system does – Kait and Ted’s story
“Thou Shalt Not Stand Idly By.” Click to enlarge, courtesy Iris Eytan, Esq. My sister, who I wrote about recently, took the photograph in this post when I asked…
Being human and HIV care – Our generation does have the power to change it
Today’s announcement by Kaiser Permanente that (1) disparities in survival with HIV are a thing of the past in a coordinated, caring health system and (2) the tools…
Health care is usually not a stock photo (of rainbows and butterflies)
if you go to the web site of any health care organization today, including the one I work for, you’re likely to find it covered with stock photography…