Jeoffry B. Gordon, MD, MPH
Jeoffry B. Gordon is a family physician.
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Health policy
by Jeoffry B. Gordon, MD, MPH Preventive medicine services will soon require no co-pays. This is just another example of how complex and fouled up any health reform that depends on commercial insurance can be. In addition it demonstrates how…
by Jeoffry B. Gordon, MD, MPH
Preventive medicine services will soon require no co-pays.
This is just another example of how complex and fouled up any health reform that depends on commercial insurance can be. In addition it demonstrates how pious morality infused into the democratic politics of health reform impairs the greater good.
So after all current insurance policies renew, according to Affordable Care Act, preventive services must …
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Problems that arise when preventive medicine services waive co-pays
Health policy
by Jeoffry B. Gordon, MD, MPH I have always considered it to be my professional responsibility and ethical imperative to fight for my patients with the insurance companies to get approval for every test and medication that I think is…
by Jeoffry B. Gordon, MD, MPH
I have always considered it to be my professional responsibility and ethical imperative to fight for my patients with the insurance companies to get approval for every test and medication that I think is medically necessary.
My batting average is close to 100% Lately, the insurance companies have been trying to draw the noose tighter and make the task of getting …
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Insurance companies affect patients with paperwork for tests
Conditions and diseases
by Jeoffry B. Gordon, MD, MPH As a family doc in practice for over 30 years I have been always tried to conceptualize disease states beyond the standard text book parameters. Thus I was elated by the prospect of discovering…
by Jeoffry B. Gordon, MD, MPH
As a family doc in practice for over 30 years I have been always tried to conceptualize disease states beyond the standard text book parameters.
Thus I was elated by the prospect of discovering a new beneficial treatment for muscular dystrophy when 5 years ago I gave some Viagra to a 57-year old patient of mine with limb girdle muscular dystrophy for the usual purpose. In …
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Viagra for muscular dystrophy and publicity for accidental insight
Conditions and diseases
by Jeoffry B.Gordon, MD, MPH The recent recommendation of the US Preventive Services Task Force against routine screening mammograms for healthy, low risk women under the age of fifty has demonstrated our broad consensus about the value of breast cancer…
by Jeoffry B.Gordon, MD, MPH
The recent recommendation of the US Preventive Services Task Force against routine screening mammograms for healthy, low risk women under the age of fifty has demonstrated our broad consensus about the value of breast cancer screening. The discussions about new guidance from the American Academy of Obstetrics and Gynecology on when to start and how often to do PAP smears illuminate the impact, effectiveness and support …
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How the mammogram and Pap smear debates ignore the uninsured
Health policy
by Jeoffry B. Gordon, MD, MPH The public policy and current political action around changing the system overlooks two important technical fallacies: (1) That health care is most efficiently distributed by a free market mechanism; and, (2) That medical services…
by Jeoffry B. Gordon, MD, MPH
The public policy and current political action around changing the system overlooks two important technical fallacies:
(1) That health care is most efficiently distributed by a free market mechanism; and,
(2) That medical services are an ordinary commodity.
The commercial market model is a failing economic and public policy ideology used to rationalize and justify corporate control of the health care system to profit from the enterprise. …
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