The Washington state Attorney general’s office recently filed suit against fourteen Providence Health & Services hospitals across the state for failing to provide charity care
If you live in Seattle, you may recall a major news story several years ago regarding Swedish Hospital’s neurosciences department where, among other things, it
Hospitals have beds and staff, and if they don’t fill the beds they can’t pay their staff. Whether a hospital is a for-profit or a non-profit
An article recently jumped out at me for highlighting the competing interests of private equity and medical care. The piece is the latest story of
Greek philosopher Heraclitus, some 2,500 years ago, is credited with writing that the only constant in life is change. And Benjamin Franklin wrote “when you’re
Imagine two twins, Jane and John. Jane is stopped at a right light when an inattentive driver collided with her car from behind. The crash
In the search for the causes of age-related dementia, many studies are coming up with somewhat unusual conclusions. So, what does Viagra and cataract surgery
As I recently wrote here, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is creeping into healthcare, and particularly radiologic services. What I didn’t realize then, but do now, is
I read two interesting, and somewhat related, articles in medical journals this week. One of them was a review of primary care physicians’ incomes. The other was
A 2017 Johns Hopkins study claims more than 250,000 people in the U.S. die every year from medical errors. Other reports claim the numbers are even
