Ponzi Scheme Humor
Jimmy Kimmel has unveiled this hilarious video that highlights Obamacare as the Ponzi scheme young people know it to be. G. Keith Smith, M.D.
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Hats Off to the Younger Generation
The Unaffordable Care Act (TUCA) is about to become even more unaffordable, thanks to the unpredicted wisdom of the younger generation. Recognizing yet another Ponzi scheme in TUCA, the vast majority of young people (a group the central planners had counted on to...
Are the Three Stooges Planning British Health Care?
"If we just give the government control over the health care industry, everyone can have access to care like all the other industrialized nations on earth." Heard this before? This is, of course, the fatal conceit Hayek warned us about, the central planning that has...
Gag Me?
I have received two calls recently from individuals who are sympathetic to the cause of free markets in health care and what we are doing about it. These two callers both registered concern about the “gag clauses” in certain PPO and HMO contracts, clauses...
Certificate of Need (CON)..job
Jacksonville, Florida resident Ken Willey sent this article far and wide, wondering if anyone cared to comment. The article outs Jacksonville’s Orange Park Medical Center as the most expensive hospital in the U.S. That takes some doing. The only part of the...
Dr. Angell Pops a Pimple
Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has dropped a bomb on the medical research community. The former editor in chief of the biggest name in medical journals now declares that it is “..no longer possible to...
Disruption of the Health Care Syndicate Continues
My introduction to the practice of medicine began prior to medical school. Dr.’s Don Garrett and Richard Allgood, both thoracic surgeons, allowed me to spend enough time with them to absorb countless lessons, many of which remain with me to this day. While...
Students at Medical College of Wisconsin Give Me a Gift
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with medical student members of the Benjamin Rush Society at the Medical College of Wisconsin. During the question and answer session at the end, I marveled at the questions these young people asked. Their questions indicated...
The Transparency of Corruption
Murray Rothbard, as Lew Rockwell relates in his latest book, “Fascism vs. Capitalism,” maintained a healthy respect for the obvious and unapologetic corruption in the boxing world. After all, in the boxing world, no one masquerades as a standardbearer of...
Surgery Center of Oklahoma in The New Yorker magazine
Here is a link to an article in The New Yorker magazine that mentions us in a favorable light. I’m not sure what this means, but am hoping that the tide is beginning to turn and that many who have traditionally been apologists for the state’s presence in...
Oklahoma’s Top Surgeons & Anesthesiologists
Specialists and surgeons from all of Oklahoma’s top healthcare systems choose to operate here.
- Anesthesiology
- Ear, Nose and Throat (Otolaryngology)
- Foot and Ankle
- General Surgery
- Neurosurgery
- Gynecology
- Ophthalmology
- Oral and Maxillofacial Plastic Surgery
- Orthopedics
- Reconstructive Plastics
- Urology