A Tropical Adventure: Providing Medical Care in Haiti

The following article was originally published on February 13, 2011 in The Monroe Patch Online by Bill Bittar. Lee Crouch is our talented Vice President of Business Development at MedTouch, and a veteran of healthcare marketing. In addition to her position at MedTouch, Lee serves as President of the New England Society of Healthcare...

How to Create a More Just, Two Tiered Healthcare System on the Cheap

You know I love a  solid economic assessment of healthcare: Either Americans in the higher income strata must step up to the cashier’s window to help subsidize, with higher income taxes, the health care of the most hard-working members of the lower income classes, or the United States will have to evolve toward a noticeable two-tiered or...

Will More Women Doctors Make American Medicine More Caring and More Patient Centered?

As mentioned in yesterday’s blog post, we’re taking some time to look at the increasing challenge of recruiting quality physicians and as discussed, the profession is going to be rocked by a series of changes, most notably the gender change. The Changing Face of Medicine, due out later this year, will address the issue of the gender...

Jack Knows Moore: What Jack-in-the-Box angus ads and Michael Moore’s Sicko have in common

During the past year, at every healthcare conference I have attended, the talk has turned towards Michael Moore’s new film, “Sicko,” and the tenor of that talk has largely been… well, near hysterical. Moore is not known for his even-handed, thoughtful reportage. He’s a muck-racker and a brilliant one at that —...