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Dr. Stephen R. Keister : Talking Health Care in the Barber Shop
I have had experience, or my family or close friends have had first hand experience, in Canada, the UK, France, Norway and Italy with medical care and in all instances have found the care prompt, efficient, caring, and generally covered … Continue reading
HEALTH CARE / Dr. Stephen R. Keister: The Gauntlet Has Been Tossed
A doctor makes a rare house call to visit patients in Florida. While such house calls are rare in the US, they are commonplace in France. Photo by Gregg Matthews / NYT.‘The insurance companies are money making businesses that have … Continue reading
Dr. Stephen R. Keister : On Aging
Sir William Osler: “Pneumonia is the old man’s friend.”‘In the United States, for oh so many years we have merely warehoused the disabled, senile and near senile elderly, in nursing homes of variable competence.’By Dr. Stephen R. Keister / The … Continue reading
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How Will the Crash of 2008 Impact the Elderly?
Health care, the nursing home, the retirement home, and, heaven help us, John McCain.By Dr. S. R. Keister / The Rag Blog / October 15, 2008 One of the most frightening aftereffects of the crash of 2008 will be the … Continue reading
Emergency Room : Diagnosing the Candidates’ Health Care Programs
‘The McCain “health care” plan is a pure cop-out to the insurance industry.’By Dr. S. R. Keister / The Rag Blog / October 3, 2008 It would appear to be a very simple exercise to write down in two columns … Continue reading
Retired Physician : Our Health Care System an Outrage
‘The insurance industry, and the Republican Party, over the years have sold the public a bill of goods’By S. R. Keister / The Rag Blog / September 30, 2008 I have been reading Vincent Bugliosi’s “The Prosecution of George W. … Continue reading
