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Dr. J. Deane W.

Specialty: Cardiology

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San Francisco, California

Blog: http://thesystemmd.com/

When I decided at age nine to become a doctor, I had no idea who would be my sickest patient. Over... Full Bio

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If You Represent US, You Must Vote Against Self-styled Healthcare Reform.

This is written to 435 people in the two Houses of Congress called our Representatives. “Represent” means to speak for or act in the...

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Critically Sick Healthcare – Fixed Politically (and I do mean ‘fixed’)

Suppose that health care providers handled sick patients the same way that our so-called Representatives are treating a sick system named...

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Medical programmers are just as bad as the doctors.

Programmers of medical information technologies (IT) seemed to have learned from the Renaissance Guild Masters. In at least one way, they are just...

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Healthcare Needs a Old Fashioned Country Doctor, Part II of II.

As a result of a hacker attack, this Post from 2/16/09 was deleted. I am now restoring it at the request of a recent new reader who liked Part I and...

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A 34th Amendment Solves Healthcare.

There is an easy workable solution to the costs of healthcare: easy, workable even cheap but unfortunately politically unacceptable. A solution that...

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Dr. J. Deane W. posted If You Represent US, You Must Vote Against Self-styled Healthcare Reform. Nov 07 2009

Dr. J. Deane W. posted Critically Sick Healthcare – Fixed Politically (and I do mean ‘fixed’) Nov 06 2009

Dr. J. Deane W. posted Medical programmers are just as bad as the doctors. Nov 03 2009

Dr. J. Deane W. posted A 34th Amendment Solves Healthcare. Oct 30 2009

Dr. J. Deane W. posted Healthcare Needs a Old Fashioned Country Doctor, Part II of II. Oct 30 2009

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@FarRightGirl If you love those c selective memory, then you must be swooning ovr Congrsl 'Reps': they say HR3962 will be revenue neutral! 3 days ago

@JustinHOPE.What would–>better? Pts: accept their responsibility. System: HELP us care 4 pts & reward long-term (+) pt outcomes. That's it. 4 days ago

@JustinHOPE. By far #1 DISsatisfier of #hc providers aint $. It is a system we work in that makes our jobs harder/impossible, not easier. 6 days ago

@DossiaPCHR Our #hc "system" is chaos, used here as an antonym of systematic. I laugh (okay, I cry) whnvr someone says/writes "#hc system." 6 days ago

@whimsicalwalney @instruisto I paraphrase Heinlein as TANSTAACEC: there aint no such thing as a cheap, easy cure [4 anything, but esp #hc] 6 days ago

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