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...
by Dr. Philip J. O’Donnell | May 1, 2024 | Articles
As noted above in the stated purpose, our cost of healthcare is ridiculously high compared to what it could be with a tractable alignment of incentives. However, the precedents of improved healthcare logistics are historically sparse. To that end, I will offer a case...
