Michael Fine

4 weeks ago | kevinmd.com | Trisha Swift |Sara Pastoor |Andy Bonner |Michael Fine

Advanced practice providers, including DNPs, NPs, and PAs, are playing an increasingly vital role in primary care delivery. These clinicians are independently licensed, highly skilled, and adept at managing a broad spectrum of health care needs. They should not be viewed as “physician extenders” but rather as key contributors to an efficient, patient-centered health care system.

Jan 12, 2025 | whatsupnewp.com | Michael Fine

Full disclosure: I hate United Health Care, and have hated them for thirty-five years, since they bought out Ocean State Physicians Health Plan and became the second largest health insurer in Rhode Island, in the late 1980s.  I think they are predatory and manipulative, and leverage market power inappropriately in pursuit of profit, making a critical public health process into a profit-making engine in a way that hurts us all.

Dec 29, 2024 | rinewstoday.com | Michael Fine

By Michael Fine, contributing writerCopyright © 2024 by Michael FineThis is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. _She knew who he was. Other people didn’t understand what she saw in him — or they had theories about her psychology.

Dec 11, 2024 | whatsupnewp.com | Michael Fine

So there’s talk that Robert F. Kennedy Jr will defund the NIH.  Or something like that.  In full disclosure, I am not a fan of the man.  But, I also view the hysteria of academics and institutionalists about his nomination to head HHS with a somewhat jaundiced eye. The National Institutes of Health is the nation’s – and world’s – premier health and disease research institute.

Dec 5, 2024 | whatsupnewp.com | Michael Fine

Okay.  We think women need mammograms if we are going to reduce the number of women dying from breast cancer. (Men also get breast cancer.  It’s less common.  But it happens.  There is no mammography recommendation for men, however.) We think everyone of a certain age needs screening for colon cancer, which is or sometimes leads to colonoscopy, if we are going to reduce the number of people dying from colon cancer. But there is some real craziness that happens to women with at mammography time.