The United States Census Bureau projects a 36% increase in individuals over 65 in the next ten years, becoming eligible for Medicare and the largest segment of health care needs in the population. This is occurring at the same time that the supply of physicians in this country is dwindling. By 2020, the U.S. Department [...]
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We bid a respectful and awed farewell to C. Everett Koop, a former and forceful U.S. Surgeon General who died today at the age of 96. photo: Paul Hosefros/The New York Times Can you name the U.S. Surgeon General before Dr. Koop? Didn’t think so! Not many can. When President Ronald Reagan appointed Dr. [...]
According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of the Actuary more people cut back on healthcare, leading to record-low growth in dollar allocation for doctors but not in healthcare service and product spending. “Consumers had fewer hospital procedures, filled fewer prescriptions and visited the doctor’s office less frequently. People remained cautious about their [...]
The American Journal of Medicine reports in its findings by Dr. William Southern’s study that patients treated by doctors who practiced more than 20 years, were more apt to die compared to physicians who trained within the last 5 years. The results highlight “issues that we have as a medical profession in keeping up to [...]
