I always learn something valuable when around fellow AAPS (Association of American Physicians and Surgeons) members. Dr. Jane (of Arc) Orient’s analogy for states considering Medicaid expansion: ”…embracing Medicaid expansion is like taking...
I thought some of you might like to read the remarks I delivered last night at the AAPS regional meeting in Austin, Texas. Almost 16 years ago now, Dr. Steve Lantier and I left the operating rooms of the big hospitals and began our practice in operating rooms that we...
Meet Dr. David Mokotoff, soon to be a casualty of the federal government’s involvement in health care. His article in “Physician’s Practice” is here, where he very kindly mentions our facility. He is tired, sick and tired, not of taking care...
Todd Rice passes on an article, here, showing that the cheapest PharaohBamacare insurance policy for a family of four will cost them $20,000/year. Individuals wouldn’t buy this on their own in a free marketplace, so corporate healthcare “persuaded”...
His usual insight. G. Keith Smith, M.D.
My friend Jonathan Small of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs writes the following in response to the outcry resulting from a suggested cut to the budget of the State Arts Council and the “economic devastation” that would result: Based on all the...
I’m having a hard time imagining Andy Griffith hiding behind a bush shooting residents of Mayberry with a radar gun. It’s even harder to imagine the residents of Mayberry buying sheriff Griffith a radar gun he could use to extract money from them, all in...
I have written about Dr.’s John and Alieta Eck on this blog before. My previous post about them is here. Alieta, a physician in New Jersey has written an article about the extent to which young college students in New Jersey, required to purchase health...
An orthopedist who has until recently volunteered at the Veterans Hospital told me today why he’ll never go back. Having switched to an electronic medical record display of Xrays in the operating rooms, the software allowed for only a 5 minute glimpse, after...
Check out Jim Epstein’s newest video on medical tourism for Reason.TV. I told Jim in an email that “The Surgery Center of Oklahoma won’t be so easy to compete with!” As we transition from “health care is too expensive" to "good health...
Specialists and surgeons from all of Oklahoma’s top healthcare systems choose to operate here.