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This has nothing to do with public health. No moral relativism involved, just the basic anthroplogical fact that such societies exist and we need to address the health issues in the context of the society it resides in. My experience is that the usual forces that promote abstinence in a...

Male circumcision has some public health benefits, prevents penile cancer, decreases transmission of AIDS and HPV ( human papilloma virus) , no public health benefits of female circumcision to women. The WHO estimates public wide circumcision may prevent heterosexual transmission of AIDS by...

Provide more primary care physicians,they provide lower cost medical care, many times with even better outcomes. Eliminate defensive ordering of tests estimated at 300 billion a year. There are two things that go through every doc's mind. 1. what test do I need to order to confirm or rule...

no, all I am saying is that we no longer consider beta blockers first line for primary hypertension because you mentioned beta blockers were a good option. Before JNC7 you would have been right, but not now. I also followed up with a slew of hypertensive diseases that warranted beta blockers...

you realize that the most verbal opponents were the medicare recipients? When you retire, if medicare is not there, you realize you will have to brave purchasing shoddy individual coverage when you are over the age of 65 and have a fixed income? It also spared private insurance plans...

hypatia is right, he needs to talk with his doc. FOr the record, betablockers are losing its appeal for treatment for primary hypertension. http://cardiology.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2005/1125/1 Compared to ace inhibitiors and calcium channel blockers it does not prevent strokes as...

Yeah, since I ride my mountain bike to work, ( heck I almost ride on the grass the whole time since rednecks run me off the road) I should not have to pay taxes for road construction when I buy gas to fill my lawnmower...

I did not agree with the individual mandate, ( originally designed by Mitt Romney it looked like ) trust me, I opposed this health care reform bill but it is the only way to prevent the insurance industry who are now forced to cover preexisting from going bankrupt. human behavior is such they...

Yes let's not forget that most americans pay for the uninsured anyway with higher charges by the hospital ( ten dollar asprins to recover the costs of the uninsured on non payers) and that all health insurance premiums are higher just for the purpose of covering the uninsured. I believe I read...

fair enough i'm sorry i meant to post that was a public opinion sorry, my lack of sleep is making me sloppy again what about the study in the archives of internal medicine, granted it was limited to one state, but it seemed a reasonable poll of representative physicians?

Volume 340:928-936, March 25th, 1999 #12 I have not renewed my subscription to nejm, so i could not get the full text sorry but you may have access to it And this was not in any way related to people in phnp

i meant that my overhead goes up every year, my staff expects increases in salaries, and bonuses etc as if we can adjust our prices based on free market principles. Most employees just don't realize that I can't bill higher for a cold just because i need to find the 20 % in rent incurred this...

another poll showing a majority of us favor single payer http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN31432035 and another http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?article_1_115 and another( many studies in one chart) http://www.wpasinglepayer.org/PollResults.html and another...

as I am in academia and have to deal with real life free market overhead costs Yes, overpaid specialists like interventional radiology, dermatology, nurse anesthestists that make more than me and don't have to continue stabilizing patients in the ICU when they crash, favor the status quo.