It Costs a Lot of Money to Die Young

The following post is from Stephen Texeira.
Warning! This article contains a fair amount of cynicism. It may not be suitable for less mature audiences.
Apparently it costs this country’s health system a lot of money to have non-white people in it. That may not have been the primary point of the recent study Urban Institute, but [...]

Health care reform at any cost?

The following post is from Stephen Texeira.
Quick, how much is a life worth? Are we talking big numbers? Small numbers? Incalculably large numbers? Is it ridiculous to even attempt to put a price tag on a life? Yes? I agree. But really, isn’t that exactly what we’re doing in this national debate on health care [...]

Doctors on Facebook? Pope Catholic?

The following post is from Stephen Texeira.
Over the last several months, we’ve been privy to more and more conversations, debates and discussions about whether doctors should be using social media, primarily Facebook. I have to say from the outset, just so there’s no ambiguity, that this is a pointless debate. There, I said. Now I’ll [...]