Category Archives: Horror Stories

Americanizing the NHS

On a recent trip home to England – long delayed by COVID – I was disturbed to see a trend in healthcare there. To see US healthcare being exported to the UK. Or British medicine being Americanized. Socialized Healthcare Healthcare in Britain has, until recently, been provided almost exclusively by the National Health Service (NHS)…
Read more

What’s Riding With You in Your Ride-Share?

Here’s a story to get you clean-freaks going. Who Knows What's Inhabiting The Back Seat Insurance agents netQuote were interested in finding out how contaminated the back seats of ride share vehicles are – licensed cabs are required to get regular cleaning, but ride share vehicles aren’t. They had a team take bacterial swabs from…
Read more

Scaring Your Patient Sick

I seem to be hearing a lot of stories of people being stressed out because their provider has, unnecessarily, put the fear of God into them. [caption id="attachment_2594" align="alignnone" width="530"] Is He Putting the Fear of God in You?[/caption] Friend Jane (not her real name), a 69 year old diabetic was being checked out for…
Read more

Divorcing Your Corporate Partner

This was my last column for the local newspaper (The Free Lance-Star)  telling how happy I am to not be part of the "business -of-medicine" rat race any more. [caption id="attachment_2543" align="alignnone" width="572"] So Short lived It's An Annulment[/caption]     I am having deja vu. But from a safe distance thank God.   My…
Read more