duping the public with balloon dilation

tinyurl.com/jhlqh7q

Public misinformation. Neural plasticity allows weeks of headache relief, then recurrence, but doc cashed in

Sinus dilation for headaches = duping the public.

Had a nice academic honor!

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Jeanie Sozansky and Steven M. Houser
Pathophysiology of empty nose syndrome 
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Updates

Joey is now a Fordham Ram. He is enjoying Freshman year, and riding the bench on the club hockey team. Trying to pick a major. He was home for Thanksgiving, had a nice stay. Good to have him home again.

Eric Anthony, Teddy Houser, Joey Houser, Jack Anthony. The cousins from Columbus came up to hang out for Thanksgiving and all had a nice time.

Teddy moving the puck up during his hockey tournament this weekend. They got to the finals and came in 2nd v NDCL.

facility fees going to go bye-bye?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/07/upshot/medicare-proposal-would-even-out-doctors-pay.html?mabReward=A3&action=click&pgtype=Homepage®ion=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine&_r=2&abt=0002&abg=0 Interesting article. Hospital facility fees do put considerable $$ into the hospital coffers, not to the docs. Would hospitals jettison docs as employees if they could NOT recoup facility fees? Maybe the less productive docs would be booted?

Smell the desperation

NYTimes: Apple’s War on Samsung Has Google in Crossfire http://nyti.ms/1dIkHuo

Medical changes continue

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/12/09/obamacare-exchanges-give-limited-access-to-top-hospitals/

CCF will only accept Med Mutual exchange product

http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/25/top-4-u-s-hospital-laying-off-staff-due-to-obamacare/

CCF cutting jobs given ObamaCare

Sad times at play. CCF shrinks in response to broader health coverage?
Fascinating to watch it all unfold

Medicine changes

http://news.yahoo.com/obamas-health-law-finally-gets-124027369.html People fearing Obamacare. With a limited amount of money, you cannot cover all and expect the cost to not increase - unless the benefits for the currently insured drop back to even out the pool. I have seen/predicted this for some time. A colleague told me some CCF docs got a form letter telling them 1) your salary is cut 3% and 2) you will be working more hours/shifts. Insult meet injury. Scary issues for all. Physician salaries will certainly fall with all the changes going about. The European system is coming. Docs will be competing to care for well insured patients (20% of populus in Germany), and still expected to care for those on the public plan with poor (i.e., break even) reimbursement. I still enjoy what I do - working with patients and operating, but the system becomes more difficult all the time. Will docs retire or switch career? Likely some, but unclear. Take me as an example - what could I feasibly do outside of medicine? Teach HS science? Maybe. I think docs are more likely to keep practicing medicine, albeit with less satisfaction. The replacement of these docs will be the problem - the bright students of today will see the problems in medicine and opt for another career track. Watch for the pysician shortages to really become apparent 10y from now.