Category Archives: AJ Layon, MD

Ebola, and More………..

Gentle Reader: If you look at the attached report from the latest CDC News Conference on 2 September, you can take away – from the several thousand words – the following: 1. We are losing the battle against this latest … Continue reading

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Quora Query: My dad came from Spain to the US to visit me and had to go to ER at UCLA. I’m estimating the bill to be around $10,000 (no insurance). I’…

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Quora Query: How Recent Wars Have Changed Trauma Care

Gentle Reader – I was asked to answer this on Quora (www.Quora.com) and thought it might prove of interest.  Comments are, as always, requested. AJL =========================================== How will the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan change trauma care – is … Continue reading

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Quora Query: Do American Physicians Allow their Patients to Die if They Have No Money to Pay for Care?

Gentle Reader – I was asked to answer this on Quora (www.Quora.com) and thought it might prove of interest.  Comments are, as always, requested. AJL =============================================== While there is much wrong with the American Health System, one of the things … Continue reading

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Quora Query: What Was it Like Practicing Medicine in the Early 1980s? When People – Initially Homosexuals, Hemophiliacs, Heroin Addicts, and Haitians – Started Dying Because of Opportunistic Infections from HIV/AIDS

Gentle Reader – I was asked to answer this on Quora (www.Quora.com) and thought it might prove of interest.  Comments are, as always, requested. AJL ============================================== This is a question that brings back nightmares.  What was it like to care … Continue reading

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Quora Query: Is there Only One Universal Coverage Alternative to the Current US Health Insurance System Which Would be the Most Efficient ?

Gentle Reader – My son suggested I pay attention to Quora – an on line Q&A system – and I now do. Here is a question I was asked to answer. Interesting question, for sure. AJL ———————————— The answer to … Continue reading

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Mental Health and the Affordable Care Act – Not So Fast !

Gentle Reader – Although this was posted in 2013, it remains true in January of 2020. This was an idiotic rule made for the implementation of the ACA. Yet another of the 320 million reasons that we really need Medicare … Continue reading

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The Affordable Care Act – On Line Now !

Gentle Reader – Perhaps like a few of you, I have been watching with growing unease the Government shutdown brought on by the Right’s intense dislike – or so it appears to me – of our Centrist President Obama.  Driving … Continue reading

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Health Care Quality, Safety, Satisfaction: Is International Translation Possible?

A special lecture at the University of Wisconsin, Madison for a course: Politics, Health, Sociology, and their Nexus

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Quality and The Affordable Care Act

There is a great deal written on President Obama’s health care – actually mostly insurance – reform, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), much of it driven by the ideology of the writer and / or the organization for whom the … Continue reading

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