I am a primary care physician, a health care provider and a health care consumer, and a sometime writer of an occasional blog post. This is where I bring together the long years of theory and the shorter years of experience with the reality that “love it or leave it” is – as Barbara Kingsolver once said – a coward’s slogan. We are here, and with few exception, most of us are stuck with the mixed up, confusing, redundant, frustrating system we’ve got: if you don’t love it, it’s high time we take the reins of health care reform into our own hands, together, and here’s a few ideas along the way.Tumblr (3.0; @loveitorhealit)http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/As with any disease, prevalence of this narcotics abuse is region-specific; an hour north of the...http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/43927655683http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/43927655683Sun, 24 Feb 2013 17:07:00 -0500Recently two friends and I were mulling over some of our more taxing workplace interactions and...http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/26393108453http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/26393108453Sat, 02 Feb 2013 22:51:00 -0500The dust had hardly settled on the Sandy Hook elementary school when the most futile of all debates...http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/38509059115http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/38509059115Fri, 21 Dec 2012 20:50:00 -0500With prescription narcotics abuse reaching epidemic levels across the United States, federal and...http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/32674724219http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/32674724219Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:13:49 -0400Under the heading of “Value-Based Purchasing,” Obama’s Accountable Care Act includes measures to...http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/26492729325http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/26492729325Wed, 04 Jul 2012 10:55:15 -0400In the past month, the Food and Drug Administration yanked its formal stamp of approval on Avastin –...http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/14017174840http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/14017174840Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:06:40 -0500The New York Times reported Friday on a move by Pfizer – the makers of the blockbuster cholesterol...http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/12752251918http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/12752251918Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:27:47 -0500I stand with the 99%. I have a choice, you see. I don’t have to stand with the 99%. I have an...http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/12052213251http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/12052213251Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:24:00 -0400In 2007, medical marijuana became legal under a physician’s directive in New Mexico, one of...http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/11463891383http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/11463891383Fri, 14 Oct 2011 23:16:25 -0400On any given day, you can hear talking heads on a dozen sides of the health care reform debate...http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/10915888247http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/10915888247Sat, 01 Oct 2011 22:11:00 -0400Struggling to regain her position as heir-apparent to the dubious legacy of Tea Party darling...http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/10561770090http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/10561770090Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:54:00 -0400In 1965, a decades-long legislative and social battle culminated in the passage of one of...http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/10556372816http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/10556372816Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:09:56 -0400You never want to point fingers and say I told you so when someone up and dies all young and...http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/10376065393http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/10376065393Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:39:49 -0400Last week another court decision by 11th circuit Court of Appeals came down against a key provision...http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/8872471948http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/8872471948Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:20:00 -0400Not long ago, during a yawn-inducing day of medical review lectures, a particular speaker threw a...http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/8832258963http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/8832258963Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:42:09 -0400Last time the brakes on your car wore thin (or in my case, the last time I blew an aneurysm into the...http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/8687084642http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/8687084642Tue, 09 Aug 2011 08:05:00 -0400Last week – amidst the debt crisis meltdown that seemed invented to distract America from any...http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/8416041197http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/8416041197Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:42:56 -0400Twenty miles up the road from my adopted home, the Espanola Valley fans out between the wealthy...http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/8305386142http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/8305386142Sun, 31 Jul 2011 14:46:00 -0400The New York Times this week reports on a phenomenon that you’ve likely experienced if you take more...http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/7690547334http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/7690547334Sat, 16 Jul 2011 12:08:00 -0400A short diversion from the topic of health care reform… Two weekends ago, on one of those...http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/7690313741http://loveitorhealit.tumblr.com/post/7690313741Sat, 09 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0400