Ethical Considerations
Ethical considerations in regenerative medicine involve balancing scientific progress with moral principles to ensure patient safety and autonomy. These considerations encompass issues such as informed consent, privacy, and equitable access to treatments.
Subscribe to the BlogQC Kinetix Goes from Mastering the Upsell to Reducing Costs?
I have often written about QC Kinetix because they’re hard to miss. They have bombarded the airwaves across the US, causing countless physician colleagues to reach out and ask, “What the heck is this?” Now I hear that the company has decided to create a program to save corporations money on their elective orthopedic surgery…read more
How Doing It Right Can Go Wrong… The DynaCord Story
You work for years to create a true drug product with consistent potency and purity. You work hard to get an FDA Masterfile and finally begin selling your product for lab use only. Then one day you see your product being sold for clinical use in patients and you gasp because you know that this…read more
What the Heck is a Collaborator? How NPs and PAs Play the Regen Med Game
As a physician who has been practicing medicine for 32 years, I’ve heard all of the medical terms. Some are in common use and some are pretty obtuse. However, I was just exposed to a brand new one that ties into yesterday’s story. That term is “Collaborator” and it’s a key part of the system…read more
The Dahlia Center and the Travelling “Stem Cell” Road Show
This is a phenomenon that I’ve been following for years, but I’ve been waiting to nail it down better before writing about it. I call it the traveling “stem cell” roadshow. Let me explain. Before I begin, I’m a physician expert in interventional orthobiologics. What I write below is my opinion based on my expertise…read more
The Amish, Fake Stem Cells, and a Nice Old Man?
If you read this blog you know that I get pinged with all sorts of stuff about the stem cell wild west. This story was so strange that I thought it needed to come to light. It’s about the Amish and a fake stem cell clinic that’s supervised by a very nice old man. So…read more
What Can a Huge Settlement Against A California Clinic Teach Us?
Can exaggerating your Clinical Outcomes get you in trouble? That’s what happened to a California “stem cell” clinic. So let’s review that today and what both patients and Providers can learn. What Just Happened? A clinic called “StemGenex” just paid a 3.65 million dollar settlement to the class action attorney who was suing them for…read more
Understanding Medical Risk Is a Key Life Skill
If there’s one thing that patients often fail to understand it’s Medical Risk. In fact, this plays out every day usually to the detriment of otherwise smart people. So let’s explore that topic this morning. Risk Is Everywhere We all get up each morning and most of us hop in a car at some point…read more
What Can We Learn from the Medicare Birth Tissue Injection Scams?
As I reported a few days ago, we are in the midst of perhaps the largest single Medicare part B clawback in history. What can providers and patients learn from this massive fraud? Let’s dig in. Medicare and Birth Tissue Injections Medicare just issued a sweeping nationwide payment clawback for amniotic, placental, and umbilical cord…read more
