Our Health System

Our enormous, complex, confusing and expensive health system impacts every American's life. Does it help us or hurt us? Who makes the decisions which determine whether we live or die because of the care we receive? Who profits from those decisions? This blog's purpose to to help you understand and critically analyze our healthcare system. The more we know, the more we can demand and get improvement.

Friday, October 5, 2012

Farewell

Ladies and gentlemen, it is my sad duty to inform you that your dedicated blogger and my devoted husband died in September from the awful d...

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

THE AFTERMATH A succession of highly competent nurses, physicians and technicians during the five days following my hospital admission f...

Sunday, July 29, 2012

FRIDAY NIGHT I DIED It was a Friday night family "Shabbat" dinner, not initially notably different from Sabbath dinners and acco...

Thursday, June 14, 2012

LET'S TALK ABOUT YOUR MONEY AND FAMILY IF AMERICA’S AFFORDABLE CARE ACT IS GUTTED BY ONE POLITICAL PARTY, AND YOUR YOUNG ADULT SON...

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

TAILORING DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF DISEASE TO THE PATIENT GENETICS - WHO WILL PAY? " CONCLUSION. . . . We have provided this inf...

Monday, June 11, 2012

HOUSTON DAYS My Houston days have been busy, filled with appointments, consultations, radiographic procedures technical simulations for ...

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

MD ANDERSON Last week, I went to Houston, Texas where I was seen by highly skilled, involved, competent physicians associated with MD Ande...

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About Me

Henry P. Kaplan: Saratoga, CA, United States; With degrees in economics (A.B., William and Mary), law (J.D.,Harvard), and medicine (M.D..summa, State Un. of NY - Downstate). I have been a fellow of the Health Research Council of the City of New York studying union health programs and a U.S. Public Health Service Fellow in Hematology at Stanford University Medical School. I have taught at Tufts University, CCNY and Stanford Medical School (Assoc. Clinical Prof.). I have been Chief of Staff/board member of San Jose Hospital and Health Dimensions Health System and practiced internal medicine/hematology as well as health law (now retired from law practice). I have been a board member of the National Health Lawyers Association, the California Hospital Association, the San Jose Medical Group, the Northern California Red Cross Blood Services, the Wilson's Disease Association and the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Center. I am now on a hospital medical staff biomedical ethics committee. This blog accepts no financial support. To contact me offline: hpkaplanblog@gmail.com

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