by Dr. Philip J. O’Donnell | Jul 15, 2024 | Articles
At this point, it is worth saying, once more, that the purpose of this magazine is to reduce the cost of medical care while maintaining or improving its quality. Initial groundwork for this goal has been made in previous articles. The full quote heading this section...
by Dr. Philip J. O’Donnell | Jul 1, 2024 | Articles
Let us now pick up our discussion regarding progressive disease states in a Markovian framework. In part I, we discussed a number of issues many of which are fairly intuitive: Preventing a disease is the best-case scenario (state 1) Intervening early in a disease...
by Dr. Philip J. O’Donnell | Jun 15, 2024 | Articles
To reduce medical costs, I submit that, one should decrease both the need for services and the cost of services. To help ourselves preserve health, we should all know our personal values for the following 4 items (obviously, this list is not exhaustive): BMI Body Mass...
by Dr. Philip J. O’Donnell | Jun 1, 2024 | Articles
The backbone (including nomenclature) of the following discussion will be organized according to so-called Markov processes. This allows the use of a common-sense framework. One of the most important goals in a medical system is to intervene early and effectively for...
by Dr. Philip J. O’Donnell | May 15, 2024 | Articles
Purchasing prescription medication is something that many of us have done and nearly all of us will do. Because every day Americans buy many million prescriptions, one would normally think that market forces would push prices down by strong, open competition. This is...
