http://drchip.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/medicine-as-a-guild/ The director of the Sexual Medicine Center leaves penile implants behind, and launches a quest for knowledge about Artificial Intelligence, extended life, and the issues inside the health-care industry. Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:52:38 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://drchip.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/medicine-as-a-guild/#comment-87 retired urologist Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:17:49 +0000 http://drchip.wordpress.com/?p=283#comment-87 I plan to write some more posts about rather unique experiences from my life in the field of sexual medicine. Perhaps eventually I'll have a real book. Tell all your publisher friends I'm available, and reasonably priced. I plan to write some more posts about rather unique experiences from my life in the field of sexual medicine. Perhaps eventually I’ll have a real book. Tell all your publisher friends I’m available, and reasonably priced.

]]> http://drchip.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/medicine-as-a-guild/#comment-86 teageegeepea Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:03:03 +0000 http://drchip.wordpress.com/?p=283#comment-86 Wow, you wrote a whole book about your experiences? Wow, you wrote a whole book about your experiences?

]]> http://drchip.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/medicine-as-a-guild/#comment-83 retired urologist Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:54:29 +0000 http://drchip.wordpress.com/?p=283#comment-83 The drug rep mentioned <a href="http://drchip.wordpress.com/2008/08/16/temp/" rel="nofollow">here</a> in the last long paragraph certainly <i>could</i> have injured me, both physically and mentally, had she chosen to do so. Alas, I was not fully aware of <a href="http://roissy.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">Roissy's techniques</a> at the time. The actual injury is described as happening to a fictional protagonist <a href="http://drchip.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/calb-the-light-beam-101.pdf" rel="nofollow">here</a>. The drug rep mentioned here in the last long paragraph certainly could have injured me, both physically and mentally, had she chosen to do so. Alas, I was not fully aware of Roissy’s techniques at the time. The actual injury is described as happening to a fictional protagonist here.

]]> http://drchip.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/medicine-as-a-guild/#comment-82 teageegeepea Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:30:54 +0000 http://drchip.wordpress.com/?p=283#comment-82 I thought I read something about your retirement hear but I don't remember and injury being involved. I thought it had something to do with a pharmaceutical rep. I thought I read something about your retirement hear but I don’t remember and injury being involved. I thought it had something to do with a pharmaceutical rep.

]]> http://drchip.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/medicine-as-a-guild/#comment-81 retired urologist Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:04:30 +0000 http://drchip.wordpress.com/?p=283#comment-81 Thanks for the "Cowen" correction; I've now changed it on the links. The largest store in the town where I grew up, and the only one with an escalator, was "Cohen Brothers", and I guess it grabbed my mind. Hanson's views are really my first exposure to an economist's approach to medicine. My academic education has been quite one-dimensional, up until my injury-induced retirement. The margin of my type of practice was quite easy to calculate: before the patients became involved with me, they couldn't have sex; afterward, they could. Most of them were quite happy. I live in a relatively small town, and see my ex-patients all the time. They seem to appreciate the personalized care they received. Thanks for the “Cowen” correction; I’ve now changed it on the links. The largest store in the town where I grew up, and the only one with an escalator, was “Cohen Brothers”, and I guess it grabbed my mind. Hanson’s views are really my first exposure to an economist’s approach to medicine. My academic education has been quite one-dimensional, up until my injury-induced retirement. The margin of my type of practice was quite easy to calculate: before the patients became involved with me, they couldn’t have sex; afterward, they could. Most of them were quite happy. I live in a relatively small town, and see my ex-patients all the time. They seem to appreciate the personalized care they received.

]]> http://drchip.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/medicine-as-a-guild/#comment-80 TGGP Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:21:49 +0000 http://drchip.wordpress.com/?p=283#comment-80 Also, Tyler's last name is "Cowen" not "Cohen". Also, Tyler’s last name is “Cowen” not “Cohen”.

]]> http://drchip.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/medicine-as-a-guild/#comment-79 TGGP Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:59:36 +0000 http://drchip.wordpress.com/?p=283#comment-79 It seems to me a guild is more "personal" and people tend to resist the kind of depersonalization economists advocate. It seems to me a guild is more “personal” and people tend to resist the kind of depersonalization economists advocate.

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