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Daniel Ginsberg, MD, FACP
I'm an internal medicine physician and have avidly applied computers to medicine since 1986, when I wrote my first medically oriented computer programs. So yes, that means I'm at least 35-years-old!
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- TV Ad with Unintended Medical Humor
- New Dietary Guidelines Ignore Science
- Aspirin – Questioning Established Wisdom
- Medical Pricing Transparency via Non-Transparent Rule
- National Guideline Clearinghouse Goes Kaput
- Fever – Hot Off the Press
- Drawing Lessons From a Disaster
- Wasting Resources – A Day in the Life of Yours Truly
- As If I Have Nothing Better To Do
- Trying to Destroy Healthcare the Ostrich Way
- Regulators Asleep at the Wheel
- Politicians Playing Doctor
- Exploring Cuba – Part 2
- Exploring Cuba – Part 1
- Presidential Politics and Influenza Vaccinations
- ICD-10 Keeps Getting More Painful
- Remote Globe Puppy
- Let’s be Clear on ClariSpray
- Healthy Snacks
- The Medical Paperwork Reduction Act
- Trump the Bureaucracy
- Gluteus Maximus
- Disabled Parking and Needless Paperwork
- An ICD-9 Story
- Going Viral is Bad for Your Health
- Medicare Audits – Or How I Spent Part of Labor Day Weekend
- Asinine Associations
- Sesame Chicken
- A High Tech Call Schedule
- Medicare Payment Formula Finally Changed – Win or Loss?
- Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives
- Patient Satisfaction / Physician Dissatisfaction
- January Resolutions
- When is DNR not DNR?
- FMLA Paperwork
- Epic SmartPhrases
- How to Get Rich – A Guide for Pharmaceutical Companies
- Quitting Smoking and Happiness
- If Doctors Ran Their Practice Like The Airlines
- Up in Arms, Up in Smoke
Tag Archives: medical
Aspirin – Questioning Established Wisdom
Bayer began selling aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) in 1899, and the similar salicylic acid, derived from willow bark and other sources, has been used medicinally for thousands of years. Since the 1960’s it has often been used for heart attacks and strokes. … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical, Government, Pharmaceuticals
Tagged current-events, health, marketing, medical, myocardial infarction
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Medical Pricing Transparency via Non-Transparent Rule
Hidden in a 700-page draft regulation to improve patient’s access to their electronic medical records is a proposal to require doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare providers to publicly reveal the prices they have negotiated with insurers. This rule, tied to … Continue reading
Wasting Resources – A Day in the Life of Yours Truly
I’ve written before about some of the things that waste physicians time, and how trying to be a good steward of resources can be frustrating. As the saying goes, no good deed goes unpunished. So here are three such things … Continue reading
Politicians Playing Doctor
Recently the British baby Charlie Gard has been in the news. Unfortunately he was born with a rare disorder called Infantile Onset Encephalomyopathic Mitochondrial DNA Depletion Syndrome. The parents of the 11-month-old boy have been in a court battle with … Continue reading
Posted in Medical Politics, Travel
Tagged current-events, GOP, health, law, medical, politics, travel
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Exam Room Miscommunication
In school were you ever challenged to explain to someone how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich using words only? It’s harder than it sounds. Similarly it’s sometimes difficult to explain to a patient what I want them … Continue reading
Posted in Art of Medicine, Medical Humor
Tagged clinical, doctor, exam, humor, medical, medicine, office visit, patient, physician
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