Opening Volley

Lee and Jim have kindly asked my to join Moorewatch as a contributor. As this was one of the first blogs I started reading on a regular basis, I’m flattered. At the risk of revealing too much biographic information, I’m an astronomer by trade (for the time being) but my background is in medicine. My father, my mother, two uncles and two cousins works in medicine and I worked in their business offices for 13 years, did well on the MCAT but went into physical sciences for some strange reason.

So I’ll primarily be coming at this Michael Moore business from a medical management standpoint. The American public and especially our politicians and media are spectacularly uninformed about the business of medicine.  Hopefully, I can add to that discussion.  And I invite any health care professionals out there to join in and correct me if I say anything that’s out of date.

In the meantime, here are two posts from my own blog that persuaded Lee to invite me: First, a fisking of CNN’s “fact-checking” on Sicko!, and second a fisking of the otherwise brilliant Roger Ebert’s review.

Now I’m off to enjoy Independence Day while I still have my healthcare freedom.