- How big a problem are counterfeit drugs?
- Republicans don’t like Biden’s new budget.
- Biden gaffes: “We added more to the national debt than any president in American history.” And “Send me to Congress.”
- Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and the Netherlands allow doctors to commit [euthanasia], so have become as permissive as realistically possible.
Category: Doctors & Hospitals
Monday Links
- Doctors are charging for email exchanges: $39 per consult.
- What Republicans should have shown as a response to the SOTU speech. HT: Tyler
- “Our legal system is really built for married couples.”
- Palm oil is in bread, instant noodles, Girl Scout cookies, lipstick, Nutella and ice cream, and almost everything else. So, what’s wrong with that? (NYT)
More Physicians Messaging Patients by Email (and Billing for it)
Probably around 50 years after telephones made their arrived in doctors’ offices physicians stopped using them to communicate with patients. The reason was because health insurance enrollment was growing and third-party payers were not willing to reimburse for phone consultations, while few doctors wanted to work for free. That has been changing over the past few years (the former, not the latter).