Promises, Promises - Dendreon Bankrupt, Steward Healthcare Closes Quincy Hospital

Physicians and other health professionals are trained to attempt to make realistic, unbiased predictions, most frequently of the prognoses o...

The Mystery of the Discharged Ebola Patient - Where is Sherlock Holmes When We Need Him?

As discussion, if not outright panic, about Ebola infections increases in the US, it is still hard to figure out what heath care professiona...

Merging Finance and Health Care Leadership - Robert Rubin Proteges Running DHHS, Spouse of Hedge Fund Magnate Running the FDA

Hidden between the lines of some not very prominent news stories were reminders of how close health care and financial leadership have becom...

To Die in Texas - Dr Mahmood's Apparently Fatal Stealth Hospital System Collapses Nearly Anechoically

I would bet that most people in the US still think our health care system is highly regulated.  Some may thus conclude that the system is ba...

Putting Finance Executives in Charge of Health Care? - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

A US News and World Report article affirms what we have previously written , that those charged with the stewardship of US hospitals are ev...

Health Care Experience? - Hospital CEOs Don't Need No Stinkin' Health Care Experience

It looks like the complete takeover of health care by generic managers is nigh.  Who Are Now Candidates to be Hospital CEOs? On PRWeb is a s...

A Plague of Bureaucrats - Now 10 Per Physician in US Health Care

There seems to be a reasonable argument that the US health care system is more dependent on the private sector, and in particular the for-pr...