by francine
07.09.2010
Because the American health care system is so broken, I’ve been on a lifelong journey to avoid it. The obvious path is through disease prevention, an aspect of practice in which allopathic medicine is particularly wanting. I have been long aware that there is a science of psychoneuroimmunology (interactions between the nervous system and the [...]
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by francine
04.29.2010
At lunch yesterday, I was the guest of a group that contained several retired physicians. We listened to a talk by a board member from a large non-profit local hospital system. The speaker, knowledgeable and well-prepared, talked about the cost drivers of health care in America, which he listed as an over-reliance on technology, the [...]
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