In Butler Shaffer’s 2009 book, “Boundaries of Order: Private Property as a Social System,” he very interestingly analyzes the essence of private property, challenging the reader to consider the boundaries of property, and whether without control of...
This article in the Washington Times mentions our facility. G. Keith Smith, M.D.
A fellow physician told me recently that he had seen a worker’s compensation patient who had been treated and released by another surgeon for a wrist fracture. He was now in my friend’s office complaining about his hips, knees, spine and shoulders. The...
What do you get when you combine a patient with abdominal pain, a “do it because I said so” hospital doctor and staff in an emergency room, the war on drugs and some baton-wielding strong-arm cops? A dead patient. This was the perfect storm that claimed...
Black Flag, a company that makes roach traps, known as roach motels started an effective advertising campaign years ago: ”Roaches check in, but they don’t check out.” As a big fan of the free market, it had never occurred to me that a hospital...
Here’s an interesting little article from the New York Times sent to me from Steve Gonzalez at PokitDok.com. You would think that a first rate paper like this would look into why a total hip replacement is $12,000 at one facility and $125,000 at another. You...
GOVERNMENT: An institution of war, theft, murder, rape[,] and predation, … the absence of which, it is said, would lead to disorder. Butler Shaffer (via laliberty)
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It turns out the the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, in spite of years denying this, are paid on commission. In a crisis of conscience, a trooper, worried about the public’s perception of him and his fellow “officers” has anonymously revealed that...
Starting next year, the IRS will assume responsibility for telling Americans just what kind of health insurance they must buy in order to … well, breathe free air, or something. Taxpayers will have to submit proof of health-insurance coverage along with their W-2s,...
Specialists and surgeons from all of Oklahoma’s top healthcare systems choose to operate here.