From the Top of the Letterhead -Our View 2009

(Ghost blogged for Gayle R. Lewis)

One of my tasks as a newly appointed Assistant Attorney General (1978) for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was to draft proposals for regulations providing newborn infants with guaranteed health insurance from birth through the first 31 days of life.

Pennsylvania was one of the first States in the U.S. to make [...]

Night Time Radiology

Sydney, Zurich,Tel Aviv and Idaho. What do these places have in common?

Let’s take a walk, or in this case a drive, into your local hospital (after 9 p.m.). You arrive having just fallen on ice, your ankle now sufficiently doubled in size. There is a strong likelihood that your “films” are being read, remotely, via [...]

The Case of Mrs. C -breast cancer delay

Our Case:*Mrs. C, a young woman in her late 40′s, found a lump in her right breast during self-examination.

Relying upon her doctor, Dr. A, an “expert” in breast surgery and diagnosis of breast cancer, she underwent examination and mammography. Dr. A informed Mrs. C that mammography and examination did not show a lump. He additionally [...]