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Dr. Zagreus Ammon Medical Doctor

Specialty: Family Medicine
San Francisco, California
Blog: http://executivephysician.blogspot.com/
Zagreus Ammon is a pen name. I received an MD, CM from McGill University in Montreal. I was a teacher of family medicine and a clinician at the Arctic Circle, back at McGill and then at Emory University. I am currently a fellow of both the AAFP and the CFPC. While teaching at Emory, I also... Full Bio
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Health Care Crisis Has No Easy Solution by Dr. Zagreus Ammon Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Two blog posts today are realistic about the difficulties in America's health insurance crisis. Colorado Health Insurance Insider points to unrealistic expectations: ... Read on »
Car Getting Old: Need Auto Repair Subsidy by Dr. Zagreus Ammon Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy So I was talking to a friend who is an actuary for some insurance outfit. I was saying that my car was getting old and I had an $800 service bill last time out. Mayb ... Read on »
Follow-up on LA Heart-Attack by Dr. Zagreus Ammon Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy This is my blog and I run it the way I want. You can call me a jackass and an idiot and any other choice words you choose. Creativity is a bonus, but stooping to profan ... Read on »
Cloned and Genetically Modified Foods by Dr. Zagreus Ammon Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The little tempest in a teapot about labeling cloned foods is similar to the one over genetically modified food. I think we're arguing over the wrong thing and not insisting ... Read on »
Employed Physicians by Dr. Zagreus Ammon Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I had an interesting conversation with a feller from Texas the other day. I was telling him how I had formed my impressions of docs in employed situations from my experience ... Read on »
PSA and Prostate Cancer Screening Doubts by Dr. Zagreus Ammon Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I once asked a urologist what he thought about universal screening for prostate cancer by framing the question in very personal terms. I asked him about letting a doctor's f ... Read on »
Is Health Care Supposed to Be Compassionate? by Dr. Zagreus Ammon Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I have always had an interest in the liberal arts and philosophy in particular. I never got the formal training, but as a perennial dilettante, articles such as this (courte ... Read on »
When I Was a Young Doctor! by Dr. Zagreus Ammon Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy When I was a resident I still believed in the incontrovertibility of medical facts. Now that I am older, I am a little more skeptical. I do not doubt truth so much as my acc ... Read on »
Innovation in Health Care Is Not Like Other Business by Dr. Zagreus Ammon Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy In my last post, I told about the Value Code, a book that was published at the worst possible time for its ideas to gain any traction. The majority of the companies the book ... Read on »
The Value Code: Throwing Out The Baby With the Bathwater by Dr. Zagreus Ammon Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I've been reading an old book a friend once recommended while she was employed at the now-bankrupt Arthur Andersen. The book, "" was intended for prospective Andersen clien ... Read on »
Welcome by Dr. Zagreus Ammon Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I find many things fascinating, not the least of which is the incredible noise that rises from various media about health care. The cacophony is hardly intelligible, charact ... Read on »
Michael Moore, Fair and Balanced by Dr. Zagreus Ammon Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I came across this post from hippocrates , which is one of the most fair and balanced assessments I have read about SiCKO. Brilliant really, as much as the film was entertai ... Read on »
Drug Reps Have No Value by Dr. Zagreus Ammon Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Kevin posted the following about drug reps. And people wondered why I banned drug reps at my former residency. For my current administrative role, I think it is ina ... Read on »
Socialized Medicine - Business Medicine by Dr. Zagreus Ammon Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy There is a lot of buzz lately over government's role in health care. As usual, it seems to me that the arguments align predictably with ideology. Some feel health care is a ... Read on »
AHRQ says $29 Billion Spent on Preventable Conditions by Dr. Zagreus Ammon Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy So who would like $2.9 Billion with the charge to reduce hospitalization costs for 12 preventable conditions by at least 10%? My bet is we could exceed the savings within 3 ... Read on »
To police thought or not to thought police by Dr. Zagreus Ammon Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy It is always interesting when someone presents a purportedly new idea and then gets shot down. Some ideas deserve to be shot down based on intellectual integrity. I would th ... Read on »
Employed Physicians Becoming More Common by Dr. Zagreus Ammon Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Interesting post by Dr. Reece about physician-hospital collaborations at medinnovationblog . There is no question that community hospitals exist in a challenging environmen ... Read on »
FQHC and Community Hospital? by Dr. Zagreus Ammon Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I had an interesting conversation with a colleague at a suburban community hospital not far from here. While explaining what federally qualified health centers (FQHC) are ... Read on »
Health Risk and Pleasure by Dr. Zagreus Ammon Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Dr. Val at the Voice of Reason posted an article on the hazards of raw milk. Having grown up on a dairy farm, her observations are particularly cogent. The article raised ... Read on »
Why Should Physician Rankings Impact Quality of Care? by Dr. Zagreus Ammon Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Dr. Stanley Feld at Repairing the Healthcare System has been writing his blog for over a year and most would agree that he is a very thoughtful physician. Even without an MB ... Read on »
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