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Research Interests I have been a practicing physician for over one third of a century and I am more certain now than ever, because of giant advances in medical technology, that real time diagnostics is essential for optimal medical care. Too much of the "establishment's" analysis of the cost of medical care is directed toward the incorrectly calculated cost of testing. The cost of medical tests is not solely the laboratory fee. It must include the cost to the patient in suffering and worry for delays in diagnosis. It must account for the unnecessary medical tests performed and delayed treatment due to delayed reporting of results of lab tests. Delayed laboratory results due to inappropriate off site testing when point of care real time diagnostics are available have significant societal costs as well as significant costs to physicians, hospitals and HMOs. My areas of research interest include developing point of care diagnostics for both human and veterinary medicine including tests for performing complete blood counts, tests for cancer of the colon, and for the diagnoses of malaria and other hematoparasitic diseases. I have also developed expert systems for the interpretation of hematologic, thyroid and allergy testing. My curriculum vitae includes over 200 United States and foreign patents as well as many publications in the field of general medicine and laboratory medicine. For details please see my website MDInventions.com.
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