If you go to Eileen’s Bakery and Café at 10 am on a Friday morning, you will see a bunch of old farts, myself included, sitting around the table, shooting the breeze. And helping to make us “Super-agers.” A disparate group that includes retired college professors, civil servants, an ex-coastguard, a photographer and more. We…
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About: Dr. Patrick Neustatter
Recent Posts by Dr. Patrick Neustatter
There’s More Important Issues Than Methadone Clinic Location
I am prompted to weigh in in on the reaction of the residents to the idea of Concerted Care Group wanting to repurpose a Dollar General store in the Woodlawn Shopping Center in Stafford and make it a methadone clinic. We have read, here in the Free Lance-Star, of fraught meetings where concern has been…
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Electronic Medical Records – Made for Profit not for Doctors
I was talking to my sister on the phone the other day. I told her, “You know, even though I’ve been at it all these years, I still get a little spazzed out about going to see patients” – which I now do at the Moss Clinic. Then I thought about. I corrected myself. “You…
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Profitable Patents for the Drug Industry
If you don’t have rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, Crohn’s disease or some other nasty autoimmune or inflammatory illness, probably the fact that Humira is losing its patent won’t excite you very much – but if you’ve ever complained about how much your medicines cost, it should. What is exciting is that, finally, it is possible for…
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