Californians came close to having a single payer medical care system recently, but to no one’s surprise it was vetoed by Republican Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger. However, even if he had signed the legislation into law, a major area of medical coverage would have remained dysfunctional: work related illness and injury covered by the workers compensation system. [Read more…]

The good patient is an obedient patient, one who adheres to the physician’s prescription in taking medications as directed. When patients are nonadherent-that’s the phrase used in the conventional medical literature-treatment is thwarted. According to the main article in last week’s Archives of Internal Medicine, “This misuse sometimes results in progression of disease and treatment failure.” [Read more…]