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Cartoon: Unintended Consequences Of Liposuction?

September 9th, 2011 by Dr. Val Jones in Friday Funny, Humor, Medical Art

Tags: cartoon, Fat, Fitness, Liposuction, Seals, Weight Loss

Comic Strip Details Chiropractic “Medicine”

September 6th, 2011 by Shadowfax in Humor, Medical Art

Tags: Anti-science views, Chiropractic, Comic Strip, Darryl Cunningham, David Palmer, Funny, Humor, Mixers, Multipanel Cartoon, Reformers, Straights

Darryl Cunningham has a lovely detailed explication of the state of chiropractic “medicine,” in a multipanel cartoon format!

Worth clicking through to see the whole thing.

*This blog post was originally published at Movin' Meat*

Empathy: Anderson Cooper’s Giggling Makes This Psychiatrist Embarrassed

August 30th, 2011 by Dinah Miller, M.D. in Humor, Opinion

Tags: Anderson Cooper, Discomfort, Embarrassment, Empathy, giggling, laughter, Projection, Psychiatry, Psychology, Ridiculist List, Uncomfortable

If you haven’t seen Anderson Cooper catch a case of the giggles on live TV, you can still watch it on YouTube.  I missed the first showing, but saw Mr. Cooper replayed it on his own Ridiculist List.  But what’s this doing on Shrink Rap?

I watched the re-run, and I found myself laughing out loud.  Only, it wasn’t a good, happy, hearty laugh, it was an embarrassed and uncomfortable laugh, and I realized I’d taken on the feelings of the newsman.  If I were a psychiatrist (oops, I am, even in August), I might say that Anderson Cooper Read more »

*This blog post was originally published at Shrink Rap*

Cartoon Makes A Simple Case For Why The U.S. Has No National System Of EMRs

July 27th, 2011 by Lucy Hornstein, M.D. in Humor, Opinion

Tags: Business Enterprise, Coders, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Quality Control, Sales, Standards, Support Staff, United States Healthcare System

Many people ask why the United States, unlike other countries, has no national system of electronic medical records.

Here’s why:

Insert the number 576 instead of 14, by the way. Each of which Read more »

*This blog post was originally published at Musings of a Dinosaur*

Obamacare Unraveled: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

July 7th, 2011 by Stanley Feld, M.D. in Health Policy, Humor, Opinion

Tags: Dysfunction, Healthcare reform, Obamacare, Repeal

It is hard to remember all the defects in President Obama’s Healthcare Reform Act at once.

President Obama’s Healthcare Reform Act is so flawed it cannot possibly work as it was intended. It must be repealed. A serious, thoughtful, practical and common sense way to “Repair The Healthcare System” must be enacted before all the stakeholders have adjusted to President Obama’s coming changes that will create a more dysfunctional system.

A reader sent me a photo of a poster hanging in his local ice cream store. It is a reminder of previous criticisms of President Obama’s Healthcare Reform Act.

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*This blog post was originally published at Repairing the Healthcare System*