Mark Craig

Oct 16, 2024 | ajc.com | Mark Craig |Ed Frauenheim

The heartland is under attack these days, preyed on by a health insurance industry that is bleeding rural hospitals to death in Georgia and throughout the country. Using loopholes in the federal Medicare Advantage program in particular, private insurance corporations are squeezing community hospitals to pad their already hefty profits.

Oct 14, 2024 | bmj.com | Mark Craig

Mark F Craig, lifestyle medicine and general practitioner doctorAuckland, New Zealandmarkcraig{at}doctors.net.ukRimmer reports four doctors’ views on saying no to patients.1 The reasons for medicine becoming a service industry are the lack of time and potential extra workload associated with requests from increasingly busy, stressed, and over expectant patients—and the fear …

Sep 9, 2024 | bmj.com | Mark Craig

Dear Editor The reason for medicine becoming a service industry is lack of time and potential extra workload and fear of complaint of declining requests from increasingly busy, stressed and over expectant patients.

Mar 11, 2024 | bmj.com | Mark Craig

Dear Editor I fondly remember working for Mr Hurst, as did many of our trainees in the early 2000s. He was funny, bright, and non judgemental at a time when surgical training was (still is?) quite old school in style. He was good with patients. Notably, I recall his significant frustration with being messed around by management and how it would irritate him. Trips in his sports car to the general were fun. RIP