The World of Ideas
Dr. Kunz has posted extensive blogs in the past and written extensively on health, wellness, the healthcare system, and the mind-body connection. We will be rolling out these blogs and posts, old ones and new ones. Be prepared. Expect the unexpected. Serious, funny, deep, silly, controversial. Dr. K likes to think. And to have fun at the same time. Stay tuned.
What are Two Good Things About Obamacare?
Well, I knew, as did just about anyone who knows that “Managed Care” as a model just doesn’t work (I’ll have much more to say in a series of future blogs). Obamacare simply doubles down on a medical-administrative model that was already failing… and puts the crack administrators of the IRS in charge of it to boot!
What made this doctor? Part IV
Joey had to have serious surgery and was left with a tube hanging out of his abdomen and an open wound for some time.
I hated it. Saw him once in the hospital and once at home, I think. Certainly way less than I should have with my best friend. It was so strange and so fearful to see his body like that.
The ground that I had once won I gave back in that battle. I failed to hold the hill.
What’s in a Blog?
the topics of my blogs are actual conversations with patients
What made this doctor? Part III
Guilt. It wasn't that I felt responsible for the sickness of others, it was that something compassionate in me chided my conscience for being repelled by the sights, sounds, and smells that accompanied the suffering of others. Again, my Mom introduced me to this...
Why A “Thyroid Protocol”?
An Open Letter to My Current and Future Thyroid Patients, For years I have rather scornfully accused those who institute protocols and algorithms for clinical care in the office and hospital of trying shortcut real care, of putting together sets of mindless...
What made this doctor? Part II
Ever seen that movie where, in a crowded theater, a commotion ensues in the audience, the action on the stage stops, the house lights come up and someone cries out, “Is there a doctor in the house?”
I wanted to be “that guy”.
Author / Physician
David W. Kunz, M.D.
Family Medicine Physician & Medical Aesthetic Specialist