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Why Are Medicare Costs Rising So Fast? It’s Actually Not Complicated

(Editor's Note: Stephen Schimpff has been a member of our Advisory Board…

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Will “Medicare As We Know It” Persist, or Will It Change?

Stephen C Schimpff, MD is a quasi-retired internist, professor of medicine and…

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Further Disruptive Changes in Health Care Delivery

   Technology to lower costs rather than accelerate them. Smart phones to…

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Transformational and Disruptive Changes to Healthcare Delivery

More chronic illnesses, more old age impairments, consumers demanding more quality and…

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Caring For Chronic Illnesses Should Be Different

   Our medical care system does not deal well with chronic illnesses;…

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Lifestyles Cause Most Serious Disease and Deaths

We all recognize that as a society we have some adverse lifestyle…

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Lung Cancer Part 5 – Multi-disciplinary Team Care

Lung cancer causes 160,000 deaths each year. Diagnostic and treatment options have…

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Lung Cancer Part 4 – Drug Therapy

    Lung cancer causes 160,000 deaths each year – more than the…

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Lung Cancer Part 2 – Early Diagnosis

   Most patients found to have lung cancer die within a year…

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