Stark and Quality Fraud

On my blog, I write a lot about #QualityFraud. What this concept means to me is the inflated cost of medicine and other health care costs passed on to consumers through concealment and deception of the quality of the services we are being provided. Unlike any other industrialized country, our health care sector is opaque […]

City of Motherless Children

“It was like fractured pieces trying to converge — their experience today, my history — being in this place where I had been as a child,” Ina said. I had the good fortune of growing up in South Florida in the seventies, a prehistoric era of AOR radio before the internet – when video games […]

June 1, 2018

Unintended Consequences of Pharma-Created Opioid Crisis: He hugged her for a long moment, outside the bathroom with the missing door, head full of anxiety. He knew what awaited him on the other side of the drive. Another impossibly difficult conversation with his provider, who, scared by the rising number of opioid prescribers facing criminal prosecution, […]