This is what many residents on ER shifts have known for years. During big sporting events, like NBA championship series, LA Lakers playoffs, that traffic in the ER and in urgent care clinics was unusually low. Now, this has been confirmed by a study recently published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. ED visits were […]

Is it surprising to know that for over ten years the US Preventative Task Force Service has stated that there is no evidence for annual screening physical exams! This is reiterated in a recent story in the Archives of Internal Medicine that states that there is no evidence that annual routine physical exams prevent or […]

Wouldn’t it be interesting if as a physician, it was your job to protect the public interest? For example, if you saw an obese guy at McDonalds eating a Big Mac, you could yell:”Drop it, Fatso! then grab his sandwich, fries, and coke and replace them with a salad. Everywhere you turn, ordinary citizens would […]

Love that Arby’s Roast Beef Sandwich! Minnesota based MinuteClinic which has opened 22 clinics at Target, Club Foods, CVS stores in Minnesota and Maryland have now hired ex-president and CEO of Arby’s. MinuteClinic offers checkups without appointments where patients are seen by nurse practitioners. I wonder if we’ll see “Jack” from the Jack in the […]

That’s right folks! Warehouse giant Costco is entering the Healthcare Market! This month, in Southern California, Costco will begin offering two PPOs to Executive members in Los Angeles and Orange County. If the program does well, it may spread to the entire state of California! Can you believe it? Get your free samples, $1.50 hot […]