What To Expect When You Come Between The Fortune 500 and Their Bottom Line

Marketing can cover a lot of warts. Meanwhile, in the real world, people behave in line with our experience and the incentives put in front of them, even where it conflicts with what we know to be right and wrong. From the NYT, Mr. Williams said a State Farm claims adjuster told him that she […]

Get Back Up

Title IX is great because sport is a life lesson. Every kid should get the benefits of competition. I watched The Players Championship golf tournament over the weekend. Saturday was one of those wicked days on a golf course. Heavy winds whipped the course but unlike an Open links layout, the course is a Pete […]

When Business Disputes Interrupt Your Chemotherapy

Cancer patients are caught in the middle of a fight between the Annapolis hospital and nine oncologists. While hospital representatives say the nine doctors resigned, they argue they wanted to continue practicing there and were fired. The doctors were denied access to practice at the hospital and filed a lawsuit in response. Business disputes in […]

Your B.S. Isn’t ‘Academic Freedom,’ But It’s Killing Academic Freedom

That is the title of an excellent story making the rounds (link below). Academic controversy isn’t new. Nor is political correctness. But the latest round of book burning and hog tying teachers about what can be taught or said in a classroom (Florida’s new “Don’t Say Gay” law is an excellent example) is getting out […]

Mizrahi May Be Dead In Florida (why that is great for families of medical malpractice victims)

For decades, families of medical malpractice victims in Florida have suffered without a remedy under an unfair law that treats them differently from other grieving families. Florida’s wrongful death act exempts negligent health care providers from righteous claims that would exist if anyone else caused their parent’s death. The pain they experience is no different […]

Oof. What a day.

While America considers the first black woman to be a Justice on its Supreme Court (First Black Woman Nominated to SCOTUS: Katanji Brown Jackson) we have a crumbling world order in Europe (Bury The World Order, The Atlantic). Time to put on the Chucks and get down to brass tacks. Or play music and dance. […]

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

The United States care system is often failing to meet the needs of individuals, families and communities affected by traumatic brain injury, according to a report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The authors make many recommendations for advancing progress in TBI care, including changes to classification methods, improving research funding and […]

Sentencing in $250M Radiology Fraud Scheme

If you follow the Department of Justice alerts, you know that the Feds recover hundreds of millions of dollars in waste, fraud, and abuse in our health insurance system every year. Why is this considered acceptable? #QualityFraud Ex-CEO of medical imaging companies sentenced to prison in $250 million fraud scheme